The Germans, however, do not. Which is why the country is barring the filming of a movie that stars Scientology's most public, not-at-all-insane member -- Tom Cruise.
Cruise is set to star as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (A name best said while sporting a waxed mustache), a German officer who tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler by placing a bomb under der Furher's table. Hmm, an unsuccessful bomb. How very Cruisian.
Cruise and Co. wanted to shoot in Berlin, but Germany says nein doch!
Here is a typically blunt German assessment of the situation, from a Defense Ministry spokesman: The film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult." (I love that: cult). Another statement from Berlin: Scientology masquerades as a religion to make money.
What is comedy, friends? It is the meeting of celebrity Scientology wackiness with humorless German bemusement.
What is Scientology?
Who are Scientologists?
Don't Scientologists know that Aristotlean either/or logic went out the window with the advent of quantum physics and general semantics?
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