OCTOBER 2020:  Novel Coronavirus, Scientology, Hollywood, the Angry Gay Pope and Elvira all collide on Shalloween in a scheme to steal pandemic relief funds from the IRS. It's another day in Scientollywood on the blvd during the pandemic. Cult Guard Franck Paolo is the guest star, along with a Lamborghini and a handsome male porn star in a tasteless shirt. Vegas tasteless, and that is saying something.
What is "Shalloween?" In this case a video where pretty much everyone is shallow except Elvira! I pretend unctuously to care about the cultists even though I want them to die. I am only interested in analyzing their body counts and comm lines. Elvira pretends the lack of Halloween will kill her. Franck pretends that he doesn't want to drag me to the desert in a black SUV and hold me in a shack outside Twenty-Nine-Palms. Etc.
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DECEMBER 2020: Tom Cruise recently made world news over leaked audio on his set of Mission Impossible 7. He went nuts and had a David Miscavige style meltdown over a Coronavirus issue involving crew people standing too close. Scientology Church leader David Miscavige called the novel Coronavirus pandemic of 2019 a "global bullbait" which is sort of like their version of "fake news."

FINANCIAL DISCLAIMER

When my parents divorced in 1979 my mom moved us from Cincinnati Ohio to near Johnstown Pennsylvania. When I was in high school Cruise came to Johnstown to shoot the movie “All the Right Moves.” That brought jobs and attention to the area’s lack of employment for young people.

Later I moved back to my hometown of Cincinnati. One day downtown in 1988 while protesting Ronald Reagan’s (non-existent) AIDS policies I saw Tom Cruise in person. He and Dustin Hoffman were in a classy yellow 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible pulled by a tow car. A big Panavision type camera was attached. It was the first time I saw a Hollywood movie production. They were shooting “Rainman” which won 1988’s best picture Oscar and brought jobs and attention to the Tri-State area. It helped inspire me to want to work in movies.

I moved to Hollywood California and in 2003 worked uncredited on the Cruise movie Last Samurai. I shot virtual arrows at Tom Cruise, a man I could not stand personally, in a dopey “guy gets shot over and over while pretending to stagger” scene. Who does that in reality? But I didn’t’ care. Four out of five movies I work on stink. I still got paid to keep my skills sharp so the next movie will look better. Maybe that next flick would be the fifth movie that turns out good.

Did you know that most movies are like Mel Brook’s parody “The Producers?” Raise more money for a failed production than you spend, then pocket the excess cash. If most movies are destined to fail then why not pull a Scientology type scam? Bilk people by raising excess funds and cooking books! Jack Reacher 2 did not have enough money for its own special effects shots. I know because the below the line FX super walked in and told my below the line VFX boss William Mesa that it was the case. That is because Cruise and all the above the line people took their money leaving nothing for the actual production. Sound like “The Producers?” If 80% of movies stink then why not hedge your bets?

In 2016 I animated Tom Cruise tasering a bad guy jail guard in Jack Reacher 2. This is his “B” picture line. Mission Impossible is his “A” picture studio tent pole line. I have animated him looking like a hero even though I hate him and his Scientology religion.I have depended on him for a living in the past. It biases me to towards leader Tom Cruise as he has been my employer. So it is very hard to convince a Scientology security guard like HGB's Frank Paolo to quit his own employer even if he knows his leader, David Miscavige, beats his staff. His livelihood depends on it.

SOME HISTORY

Lucille Ball was the first woman to run a Hollywood movie studio. It was Desilu, formerly RKO, which once abutted the Paramount lot and Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She and Desi Arnaz founded it. The RKO globe is still up on the southwestern corner of the property. She came up with Star Trek and Mission Impossible and other TV shows. So Paramount absorbed it, and her, intellectual property (IP). For years the movie studio had little else as a tent pole IP other than Star Trek and Mission Impossible. Paramount brought in Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks, took their IPs and treated his people like crap taking credit for their ideas. So Dreamworks left. Paramount was called "the cheapest studio" way back when I moved to Hwd in 1996.

Now, unless Indiana Jones 5 happens, Tom Cruise and his MI intellectual property are then all Paramount has left for big budget movies. Cruise usually picks good scripts but sometimes does things just for the money. Or "Mummy."   After the atrocious performance of Universal’s Cruise starrer “The Mummy,” and his horrible rep due to Scientology, Paramount is all Cruise has also. “Top Gun 2” and “Mission Impossible 8” are already under way. Paramount has been a mess for years as the New York Times reports:

CONCLUSION:

My friend and Producer Leah Remini made some important criticisms of Cruise on Tony Ortega’s blog. He is a sociopath. I get it. Hollywood is full of them and some are not even Jewish! I completely agree with her and …. Yet …. He has been responsible for my job in the past and the mind boggling pressure he is now under includes:

1.    A crewperson could die from Covid.
2.    He could get it, be quarantined, and throw the movie off by weeks costing millions.
3.    Production was halted in March in Italy due to Covid.
4.    UK production was halted for two weeks in July due to quarantine.
5.    In October production was halted in Italy again after 12 people tested positive for novel Coronavirus .
6.    There was a bad fire on an expensive set piece.
7.    Nobody has had to make movies in these circumstances before. People are watching the few large movie shoots to see how they fair.
8.    The production and distribution system of movies is collapsing. Many people are out of work. Empty theaters. Netflix. Etc.
9.    This is Paramount’s main tentpole franchise.
10.  This is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV's main franchise.
11.  The production was distracted already by a controversy over a Polish shooting location.
12.  The production rented an entire massive luxury boat liner to try to keep the crew quarantined.  Just like Scientology's Freewinds! That boat had a measles outbreak and quarantine in early 2019.

Sadly, I think that just this once David Miscavige’s fascist leadership principles apply and Cruise did the right thing. So let’s give him some credit while under stress, but only this one time. It is better to be too harsh in the face of a pandemic than too easy. California’s failure to come down hard and massive caused huge Coronavirus numbers.

If all I, or Leah Remini, or Tony Ortega do is criticize cultists then we are not going to get very far. When a gigantic idiot like Cruise puts himself on the line to do the right thing, even if just for PR purposes, how can I argue with that just once?

For once he is looking "down the pyramid" towards the workers instead of only "up the pyramid" towards David Miscavigement.   Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.