Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.showbiz.gossip From: gerdw_remove-this-spamtrap-to-email@cougar.vut.edu.au (David Gerard) Subject: Nicole Kidman: "no longer Scientologist" Message-ID: Sender: news@matilda.vut.edu.au Organization: Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 03:34:43 GMT [posted to alt.religion.scientology and alt.showbiz.gossip] This is from an article in 'Good Weekend', the colour supplement with The Age (Melbourne) and the Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, of course) each Saturday. This is from last week's edition (Sat 01 Feb 1997). It's an extensive article on Nicole Kidman (seven pages). Here are the bits on Scientology, and on Nicole's father, who is a psychologist. (Remember that the Co$ thinks the Psychs are in a Conspiracy to rule the World.) There is a Good Weekend web site at http://travel.fairfax.com.au/52weekends but it's crap. And doesn't have the entire article anyway. Article by Anne Summers. -- (p30) In the past, Kidman has said she is a Scientologist but now she seems to have left that behind her: "I wouldn't classify myself as a Scientologist, but my husband is." She is, she says, her own woman: "I am who I am and I don't credit anyone except my parents with helping me." Jalenne Kidman observes that it's a bit like when she first married Antony and tried to become Catholic like him; she took it very seriously "in the first blush of everything" but her heart was never in it. She's now an agnostic. Nicole says she has been exploring Buddhism recently but that "there are still things that will stay with me for the rest of my life in relation to my being raised a Catholic." She loves "the tradition and the ritual" of Catholicism and often takes her children to church. Unlike her husband, whose experience of growing up Catholic was unpleasant and repressive, Kidman's memories of the nuns are benign ones. [Janelle and Antony Kidman are Nicole's mother and father. - d.] (p28) Antony and Janelle Kidman still live in the modest house on Sydney's Lower North Shore where Nicole and her sister Antonia grew up. Dr Antony Kidman is an academic clinical psychologist who also writes popular self-help books which are edited by his wife, a former nurse educator. Meeting them, you can see that Nicole Kidman has her mother's face and her father;'s complexion and hair and that she got her height from both of them. The family photographs in the sitting room reflect the famous marriage and its spin-offs - there's one of Antony and Antonia with Cruise and Tom Hanks and Arnold Schwarzenegger, snapped during a Vanity Fair photo-shoot while Nicole and her mother were elsewhere - but otherwise everything seems pretty normal. The main difference, they say, is that when they go to visit their daughter, due to her generosity they now fly first-class. Nicole's parents think Cruise is terrific - "Tom likes us and we like him" - but when they first heard of their daughter's plan to marry a Hollywood screen idol they were, Janelle now admits, rather "disconcerted". Not that they knew much about him. "I did a crash course on Tom Cruise.," she says. In February 1990, when she visited them in Florida during the filming of Days of Thunder, she took herself off one afternoon to a local cinema to watch Born on the Fourth of July. Janelle remembers crying at the scene when the young Ron Kovic runs through the rain to see his girlfriend at the prom just before he leaves for Vietnam. It's still her favourite Tom Cruise movie. -- *** Rev Dr David Gerard http://www.suburbia.net/~fun/ *** "Recently I was discussing with a newbie who thought Scientology was worth checking out. I finally shut him down when I asked, 'Would you let your friend hypnotize you and then mess around in your mind when he had no idea what he was doing?' 'Of course not,' he said. 'Well, that's about what you're doing when you let another person audit you,' I replied. He had no response to this." (Prignillius)