TOM CRUISE IS A TOUGH GUY

A new report alleges that Tom Cruise used a scientology "mob" to physically intimidate the head of Paramount Pictures during contract negotiations on "Mission Impossible III".  Radar Online says:

Paramount Pictures honcho (Brad) Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3. Grey, who had recently joined the studio, entered the talks determined to make Cruise accept a smaller share of the gross revenues than he had from the first two installments in the franchise. (For those films, the actor reportedly took home an unheard-of 30 percent of the total revenue.) Leaving the office one night, the diminutive Grey, walking to his car in the Paramount lot, suddenly found himself surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor, according to the source.  Following a terse exchange, the visitors allowed Grey to get into his car and leave, but the message was clear.

John Travolta is said to have used similar tactics and tried to bully studio heads into making "Battlefield Earth", a movie based on a book by scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In the late nineties, John Travolta furiously lobbied reluctant former Fox studio chief Bill Mechanic to produce Battlefield Earth, the science-fiction stinker based on a story by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. "He had Scientologists all over me," Mechanic told Radar last year. "They come up to you and they know who you are."  (He) was unswayed: "Do you think in any way, shape, or form that weirding me out is going to make me want to make this movie?"

There might be a few holes in any plan based on a gang of thugs brought together by their common belief in scientology.  Because scientology is about UFO's.  So these "thugs" are basically Trekkies.  If I ever got cornered by Commander Data and Magneto and Lara Croft, at no point would it ever cross my mind that I was in danger.  In fact I would almost definitely end up giving them candy.