Will Smith is supposedly a Scientologist again

We've said Will Smith was flirting with Scientology before, but Life & Style reports that the Fresh Prince was still up to his purported preachiness on the set of his upcoming flick, Hancock. Convenient that this comes out just as it's getting ready to open, yes?

"He gave out Scientology-like pamphlets at the end of the shoot," says writer Andrew Morton, the guy who was getting sued by Tom Cruise for writing an unauthorized biography about him last year. He's an authority, you know. "It's also been said that he and Jada are homeschooling their children in Scientology methods."

That probably comes from rumors that the couple are financing the New Village Academy in Calabasas, Calif., this fall. The school is supposed to have Scientology ties, but we don't go there, so we don't know. We do know the academy told the L.A. Times it's a nonreligious school, though.

The summation from Morton: “So between that, the pamphlets, the school in Calabasas, and his close friendship with Tom, it seems all the evidence leads one to conclude that he is a part of this organization.”

And by that logic, the fact that The Juice* owns a Tampa Bay Rays cap, attends games, watches them on TV and is a big Akinori Iwamura fan, means we'll be playing shortstop next week. It's true!

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Tom Cruise thinks Dr. Drew Pinsky is a Nazi

It's no secret The Juice* likes Dr. Drew Pinsky, what with his helping of the people and all, so his comments about crazy in a Playboy interview caught our attention:

"A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt," he says in next month's issue. "Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood -- maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."

Well, the Cruise camp is having none of it. Tom's lawyer Bert Fields fired back in the New York Post, comparing the doc to a Nazi:

"This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels."

That'd be a great argument, except that Pinsky really is a doctor, who really does doctor things, and Cruise has often talked about his abusive father and nomadic upbringing. The truth hurts, we guess. But then, Cruise knows all about psychology already, doesn't he?

And of course, being the nice guy he is, Dr. Drew caved.

"(Dr. Drew) apologizes if his comments were hurtful," a rep tells Us. "Although Mr. Field’s intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm."

Sigh. Denial's not just a river in Egypt, right?

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Did Tom and Katie drop $400K on Suri's outfits?

Quick, how much do you spend on baby clothes each year? If you said, "A couple hundred bucks, give or take," fine. If you said, "My kid wears the same Lee Majors onesie I slept in until I was 8," that's understandable, too. If, however, you spend $350,000 to $400,000 on toddler clothes over a two-year span, well, then you're probably either (A) Tom Cruise, or (B) Katie Holmes. TMZ reports the couple has sent a cease and decist letter to luxury baby boutique Petit Tresor, alleging that the store blabbed about the ridonkulous amounts of money they've been spending on the wardrobe of baby Suri (who, we must admit, probably is the best-dressed baby on earth). The Cruises say the $350K-$400K figure isn't true, and it also violates the hallowed code of haberdasher-patient confidentiality. "It appears that Petit Tresor has 'leaked' this false information to the tabloids for the purpose of enhancing its image and obtaining a commercial advantage," says the letter, sent by one Aaron J. Moss. "This conduct violates our clients' rights of privacy and rights of publicity. ... Please do not say anything (whether true or false) about Mr. Cruise's and Ms. Holmes' shopping habits, consistent with your representation to the New York Daily News in December 2007 that 'We don't talk about any of our clients.' "

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Are you ready for TomCruise.com?

Oh. Em. Gee. Apologies for all the e-mails and IMs we're no doubt missing today while we try to absorb the funhouse that is TomCruise.com, the official Web site of America’s Clearest Actor. Thank you, Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson, for alerting us to the presence of this oracle of Cruisedom, which launched Monday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Risky Business. “I created this site as a thank you, to you, for sharing the journey with me and to invite you to continue to explore what the future will bring,” Cruise writes in an intro. “My hope with this site is to bring you in and share with you the fun I experience every day during the filmmaking process, from working on the script, to the making of the film through to what we finally see when we settle into our seats and the lights go down. This is for you.” It is not, apparently for Katie Holmes or the Church of Scientology, neither of which gets a shout-out in the actor's self-penned biography page. But even though the site is still pretty bare-bones, it does contain clips and photos from many of Cruise’s movies, and if the site’s intended purpose is to remind us that Cruise has made a hell of a lot of awesome movies over the years, well, it succeeds. The man can sure pick a blockbuster. Beyond that, we think there was a secret purpose to this site, and it was to make us snicker with joy at the sight of this still photo from his 1985 flop Legend:

You get 'em, tiger! We highly recommend you spend the rest of your day over there.

(All photos via TomCruise.com. That's three links! Don't sue us!)

Katie Holmes sent to Scientology boot camp

It's Wednesday already, and what would a week be without some completely inane Katie Holmes story alleging that Tom Cruise is brainwashing her and keeping her locked in a pantry in the basement of his Switzerland manse?

Star says Katie recently "endured" a three-day retreat at Gold Base, some Scientology camp in Hernet, Calif. Actually, they call it a boot camp, but we've never been there, so we don't know. It doesn't sound like fun, though.

"It included various tests, confession sessions, tons of reading and physically challenging purification processes," a Scientology source tells the glossy. "Tom insists that auditing and purification practices are incredibly beneficial to Scientologists at all levels." 

Apaprently these auditing sessions are a routine thing for her these days, since she's going to be moving to New York for a spell to act on Broadway and needs to be chipped like a wayward cocker spaniel. The mag says some sessions have lasted 36 hours with hardly any sleep or food. It's like watching War of the Worlds, complete with a ridiculous ending!

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