THE THETAN IS ON
Tom Cruise
Comedy Central's decision to replace a Wednesday repeat of the Scientology- and
Tom Cruise-prodding
South Park episode with a “Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls” encore has fueled talk that Cruise threatened not to promote Viacom-owned Paramount's
Mission: Impossible III if the switch was not made. A rep for Cruise denies the strong-arming and the semiofficial "spin" is that the Chef-centric substitute was chosen as a tribute to
Isaac Hayes, who recently quit the series... due to its Scientology riff. But
South Park creators
Trey Parker and
Matt Stone still cry foul, saying in a statement to
Variety, "Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun!... You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!" You gotta love those guys.
