Scientology Plays Cupid for Tom Cruise, Wright Says
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Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief” is a colossus of documentation, with 42 pages of endnotes, plus quite a few on-the-page footnotes, often in spots where a subject or a lawyer has disagreed with something the author reports.
No doubt Wright and his publishers want to be in a strong position if the Church of Scientology comes after them. When Paulette Cooper published “The Scandal of Scientology” in 1971, she was sued 19 times. That wasn’t all, as Wright recounts: