Katie Holmes Faces Off with Scientology Protestors
Hector Vallenilla
Katie Holmes is seen here as she leaves her New York apartment to head out to the Gerald Schoenfeld theatre for her role in the Broadway production of ‘All My Sons’. And I am not sure what is going on with this look here, it seems that Katie is trying to revive some kind of grunge look with a little bit of glam. We have an ‘80s style here with rolled cuffs and heels that is just not sitting well with me. But it may be looks like this that are what kept her off the Best Dressed list this year. Katie however apparently has other things to think about, as she has been working hard all summer preparing for her role in ‘All My Sons’ and the hit show opened last night on Broadway with a little bit of tension for Katie. It is no secret that she is heavy in the Scientology thing what with her marriage to Tom Cruise, and many of her friends, and fans, have been trying to get her out of it. Approximately twenty of these so called fans showed up for opening night on Broadway in true activist form. They called themselves ‘Anonymous’ and picketed Broadway’s opening night wearing masks and brandishing signs such as ‘Scientology is a cult’, ‘Run Katie Run’ and ‘Free Katie, Keep Tom’. There always seems to be one protestor louder than the rest, doesn’t there, and one of them specifically said ‘We are not boycotting Katie, we are not boycotting the play, we are protesting against Scientology’. Oh ok. Protestors were making statements such as ‘Scientology kills people’ ‘it’s perverted’, ‘it follows you home at night’ and so on and so forth. Tom Cruise of course was on hand to brave the mobs and support his wife in her opening night performance. He attended the event with Rainman co-star Dustin Hoffman and afterwards beamed and glowed for his wife’s efforts calling the show and her performance ‘Extraordinary. By the time the show was done however, the protestors crowd had grown to over 150, and the group ‘Anonymous’ described themselves as a ‘leaderless worldwide group of concerned citizens’. They have also staged protests at the Scientology Center in New York City and have been picketing outside the New Village Academy, a private school in Calabasas, California that is funded by Will Smith and his wife Jada. Gotta love it when protestors are so vehement about their position they don’t even have the stones to name themselves and hide behind anonymity. I am sure Tom and Katie had a good laugh about all of it.
