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Jason Beghe's Anti-Scientology Video Cancelled In YouTube's Area

The Church of Scientology scored another victory on Google's YouTube, where administrators suspended the account of the church critic who recently posted a video interview with actor and former Scientologist Jason Beghe. The effect of the suspension is to break embedded copies of the video on sites like Gawker and to help muffle Beghe's criticism of the cult as financially and emotionally exploitive. At the moment, one other copy of the interview exists on YouTube, uploaded yesterday, but it's unclear how long that copy will live. After the jump, Gawker's own copy of the Beghe video, a video posted to YouTube about the account suspension, and comments from a tipster who thinks the suspension will be as temporary as YouTube's January yanking of Tom Cruise's Scientology indoctrination video. More »

9:21 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Ryan Tate
7,501 views, 15 comments

Latest by NotReadyForPrimeTime: This will work out to be yet another case of CO$ shooting itself in the foot. The more »

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Celebrity Ex-Scientologist: "Let Will Smith Know That His Shit Was Fucking Recorded"

Jason Beghe, the television and film actor starring in a blunt video about his Scientology days, has begun a media campaign to spread what he knows about the cult, and his latest salvo is a Village Voice interview in which he calls the Church of Scientology a "gossip factory" and says that it tapes all of its auditing sessions using secret cameras. "He's been cheating on his wife," he was told of one actor he wanted to cast in a recruiting video. He also has some dirt on Tom Cruise: More »

2:29 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Ryan Tate
11,146 views, 10 comments

Latest by abarts: Why do the gay actors hide behind Scientology as a way to 'cure' them? more »

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Actor OT V: "If Scientology Is Real, Something Is Fucked Up"

I'm not particularly familiar with the television and movie work of actor Jason Beghe, but I was still riveted by his comments in this YouTube video about Scientology. It's not surprising to hear the cult described as exploitive and ineffective, even traumatic. But it is rare to hear anyone with a significant showbiz profile give voice to these complaints. In fact, the YouTube caption claims Beghe is the "first celebrity Scientologist to sit down and publicly talk about his experiences after leaving the group." Also, about 2:30 in, Beghe affects a creepy laugh that sounds a lot like Tom Cruise. [YouTube]

7:03 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,558 views, 44 comments

Latest by Cthulhah Bankhead: @Hot Foot: It's an explicit part of their strategy to go after have-been and never-quite-were celebrities, engineer their comebacks if more »