Yes, that was a Scientology ad you saw during the Super Bowl. Here’s what’s in it. · · http:// As long as trolls are still trolling, the Rick will never stop rolling. The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs. This is a list of significant events involving American television in 2011. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches. Ex-Scientologists tell THR that unlike others in the church, he doesn't need to "disconnect" from his child or Katie Holmes due to PR fears; says one: "I've seen. Lisa Marie Presley is inching ever closer to speaking publicly about leaving Scientology. And yesterday, she seemed to take a pretty big move in that direction. In.

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It’s been only two weeks since Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reached a quickie divorce settlement, but during that time Cruise has swiftly carved out a new life as single dad to his 6- year- old daughter, Suri. PHOTOS: 1. 0 of Hollywood's Nastiest Divorces. After finishing his latest movie, Oblivion, in California, Cruise sped to Manhattan for a three- day reunion with his daughter beginning July 3, taking her on a helicopter ride to the Hamptons before flying off to London for pre- production work on his next film, All You Need Is Kill. It seemed proof of his lawyer Bert Fields' claim that Cruise would have "significant contact" with the girl, though she will be based in New York with her mother.

It’s an arrangement most people would find normal, unless you’re among the numbers of Scientologists and ex- Scientologists who say that if Cruise were a typical church member, he’d be forbidden to see or speak to Katie again - - and would be discouraged from staying in contact with Suri. Karen De La Carriere, the ex- wife of the president of Scientology and a protege of L. Ron Hubbard with decades of experience inside the organization, says she was never allowed contact with her son, Alexander Jentzsch, after leaving the church in 2. She had hoped for a reconciliation until she learned July 5 that he had died at age 2. July 3 at the Sylmar, Calif., home of Maureen and Jeffrey Evans, Alexander’s ex- wife’s family, Scientologists, who De La Carriere says refused her access to the body and any information about her dead son. Calls to the Evans family for comment were not returned.

PHOTOS: 1. 9 of Hollywood's All- Time Shortest Marriages. So why was De La Carriere, according to her account, kept by Alexander’s in- laws from viewing her son's body at the morgue or retrieving his ashes whereas Cruise can see Suri despite the fact his ex- wife has made it clear she is returning to her Catholic roots? The answers may lie in Scientology’s "disconnection” policy - - as some call it - - and how much the organization manages its application to members’ lives. De La Carriere and other ex- church members who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter hope that Holmes’ surprise decision to file for divorce from Cruise on June 2. July 8 will shine a spotlight on these questions. The concept of disconnection is described by former Scientologists as the forced separation from family members who have left the organization. The policy has been recounted in often anguished detail in the media and online by numerous former Scientologists who have lost contact with loved ones. Scientology spokespeople say De La Carriere and other ex- Scientologists who have criticized the church in statements to THR are “defrocked apostates” who are not telling the truth. The policy, as described by defectors, involves ordering members to cut all contact with family and friends who have left the church, criticized it or are involved in activities that the church opposes. The shunned are called “suppressive persons” in Scientology jargon.“Disconnection is the main weapon of Scientology,” says Samantha Domingo, 4. Placido Domingo Jr., son of the famed tenor and a respected musician in his own right.

Domingo, who joined the church at 2. Scientology community in East Grinstead, England, began “crossing the street” to avoid her.

STORY: Katie Holmes 'Biggest Nightmare' in Scientology History, Say Experts. Her marriage eventually cracked under the strain, and the Domingos divorced.“My children received Facebook messages from their friends saying they weren’t allowed to talk to them anymore and they had to disconnect,” says Domingo, whose children were 8, 1. My husband, who had stayed in the church, was called in and ordered to disconnect from me or be excommunicated.”Domingo says she did what Katie Holmes did.“I walked out of there holding my kids tightly by the hand,” she says.

If I had left them in the church with their father, I might not have seen them again. If my kids had been older and decided to stay, they would have been ordered to disconnect from me. Katie knows all this.”[pagebreak]But Domingo, who says she still is sometimes stalked and harassed by church members, says Holmes still needs to be careful. “Katie would have been excommunicated normally, and behind the scenes she probably already is,” says Domingo. Internally, the wheels are in motion to discredit Katie. We have moles that are pretending to be good Scientologists who report back to us on the outside. I’ve seen internal memos about Katie.”Placido Domingo Jr. Village Voice last year that he got so angry after the church tried to make him disconnect from Samantha that he ended up leaving Scientology himself.

STORY: Katie Holmes 'Brilliant' in Divorce Strategy, Say Ex- Scientologists. Karin Pouw, a spokesperson for the church, disputes the disconnection policy as described by defectors. Watch Necronomicon Online.

The Church never ‘orders’ Church members to disconnect from anyone and the practice does not have to do with ‘former members or people who are critical of the Church,’ ” Pouw tells THR in an e- mail. The policy has to do with handling or disconnecting from individuals or groups that inhibit one’s survival.

It is similarly inaccurate to say: ‘The policy involves the disconnection of current members from anyone who leaves the Church.’ It does not. Many members are connected to people who have gone on to seek other spiritual pursuits. Disconnection is always a matter of choice by the individual, is always a self- determined decision and a last resort.” Pouw went on to compare the practice to policies in other religions including Catholicism. A type of this disconnection practice may have been at work after Cruise’s 2. Nicole Kidman. Former Scientologist Marty Rathbun, who was considered a senior church official under current chairman David Miscavige until he defected in late 2. THR on July 4 that the church managed to wrest control of Cruise’s adopted children with Kidman by indoctrinating them against her after she and Cruise divorced. Several former Scientology members said Kidman took some Scientology courses early on in the marriage but was never an enthusiastic practitioner.