Almost a year after taking a break from his Broadway hit musical 27 Heaven, bestselling multi media artist His Highness Ian Halperin has confirmed in an exclusive interview with Glosslip that he intends to take Broadway by storm this Fall, producing and directing two plays in the same night by a writer he says will make a ton of noise this year.
He’d only give her name to us as J.K., saying he’s been collaborating with her for months and described her as being the “new Jackie Collins” of Broadway. The only other details Halperin divulged was that legendary Broadway composer/guitarist Laurent Medelgi (Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Rent) has agreed to write the score. He will also perform in the show.
Halperin said the concept of having two short plays in the same night, by the same writer will change the way theatergoers see plays from now on.
“People are tired of sitting through a three hour play. The idea of two shorts, similar subject matter by the same writer, with the same cast in both will be a first. People will beat down doors to see this.”
After pressing Halperin he agreed to reveal the names of the plays - “Subconsciously Single” and “An Affairytale”. Sounds like his writer J.K.’s timing is perfect for New York in light of all the Spitzer and governor cheating scandals earlier this year.
In our continued coverage of the astounding interview we did with ex-Scientologist and Sea Org member Marc Headley, he revealed David Miscavige, RTC President and head of the Church, was directly involved in the cover-up of Lisa McPherson’s death. Lisa, a young and pretty Scientologist whose death in 1995 rocked the Church of Scientology, has since become the poster child for the alleged abuses leveled at the Church.
The story of Lisa’s death is incredibly tragic. Not simply because we see the face of vibrant, beautiful young woman cut down it the prime of her life, but because for all intents and purposes, her death was completely preventable. Here’s a very brief summary in the interest of time, but I encourage anyone interested to do more research about the events surrounding Lisa’s death:
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Radar Online, have gotten an answer back from Church of Scientology spokeswhores on the Freewinds cruise ship asbestos story (which we broke first thanks to Anonymous sources) and as expected, their response is full of lies and prevarication, and even Radar, a reputable news outlet casts doubts on the veracity of those speaking on behalf of the dissembling Church of Scientology:
Video featuring Pattinson from His Highness Hollywood
Sunday’s two-hour Glosslip Radio program was FANTASTIC and if you missed you can catch it here (look over to the right at the little BLOGTALKRADIO widget). We had two great guests, ex-Scientologists Michael Pattison and Chuck Beatty. More on these two gentlemen here.
During the show, NYT best-selling author, Ian Halperin, who featured interviews with Michael Pattinson for his film His Highness Hollywoodcalled in to the show and relayed his experiences at his film screening three weeks ago. As we reported exclusively on Glosslip, Ian’s film premiere was sabotaged and despite valiant efforts by his crew and the fine folks at the National Arts Club, those in attendance never saw the finished film.
While investigating the technical glitches, the NAC tech folks discovered someone had tampered with the settings on the film equipment and somehow 12 (two more were found after our previous report) viruses had been downloaded on the laptop used to play the film. Ian asked Michael his thoughts on this sabotage, and about the warnings Pattinson had issued about the Church of Scientology to Halperin the summer before when they were making the film. Pattison said:
“It could very well have been sabotage by Scientology’s covert operations divison known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). They could very well have done something like that. I’m not saying that they did it, but it’s something that would be typical them [CoS]…I did warn you.”
I was also informed that Halperin had received another threatening phone call yesterday and several hang ups over the last week. Halperin is considering hiring private security. Might be a good idea. I bet OSA is working overtime these days.
I am still working on part two of a theory about the death of L. Ron Hubbard. But there are many people who have differing views on what happened in the last days before Scientology founder and spiritual leader L. Ron Hubbard was found dead on January 24, 1986. We do know an anti-psychotic drug was found in his system, but no autopsy was done on “religious” grounds and the circumstanced prior to his death and what happened afterwards are very suspicious (his will was changed just prior to his death, Hubbard was extremely anti-pysch drug, his attending doctor, Gene Denk who never left his side disappeared two weeks before his death to go on a gambling trip with current RTC leader David Miscavige in Vegas, and Dr. Denk disappeared for an entire year after Hubbard’s death). So, before I draw my own conclusions I want to hear from the public their opinions.
Clip from “His Highness Hollywood” interview with ex-Scienologist Michael Pattinson
After an exhaustive investigation into the tech nightmare author Ian Halperin endured on the opening of his new film, “His Highness Hollywood,” a representative from the National Arts Club, Greg Singer confirmed the film’s equipment was tampered with just prior to the opening of the movie.
Singer, the tech official on duty that evening for the NAC, had this to say about the circumstances which led to the final version film being scrapped after three failed attempts:
“It [the tampering] was a professional job. Someone tampered with the screen projection system. All the settings were changed and the laptop was inspected before the screening. There was a system check for viruses, and the computer came back 100% clean. When we investigated the laptop after the screening, there was a virus infecting the laptop. Someone was definitely out to sabotage the evening.”
I asked Ian how many people he invited to the premiere and he estimated about 30, including select members of the media. Ian said he was keeping the numbers small and exclusive out of concern for any possible attempts by groups targeted in the film, namely the Church of Scientology, from preventing the screening of the film.
As stated in Glosslip’s earlier post on the event, there were 200 people at the screening, with at least 70 turned away. Ian said he didn’t know how word got out, but was initially thrilled at the turn out. I did some checking on my own and saw on the NAC’s website the event listed on their calendar of events. So really, anyone in the public could have been privy to this information.
Prior to the book’s release Ian did some publicity for his projects, plus there are several excerpts of the film available on YouTube with Ian going in undercover at the ScientologyCelebrity Center in, and the most damaging part is Ian’s interviews with ex-Scientologist Michael Pattinson. Pattinson has attempted to sue the Church for damages related to spending close to $500,000 on auditing and spiritual training to cure him of his “homosexuality.
Scientologists believe “homosexuality” to be an aberration within humans. L. Ron Hubbard spoke specifically of it within his writings, especially in his popular book Dianetics.
“The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically… he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society…
On something called the “tone scale,” homosexuality is at the top of the undesirable chart at -40 -1.1, referred to as “total failure.”,
“At 1.1 on the tone scale we enter the area of the most vicious reversal of the second dynamic. Here we have promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices.”
I give Hubbard credit for suggesting homosexuals weren’t completely “culpable” for their condition. In some ways that’s quite generous to most other religious opinions. But most religions don’t sue people for leaving, threaten and harass their critics, have special arrangements with the IRS, or tell their members who they can or can’t have in their lives.
Between my interview, Ian’s threatening phone calls, Defamer’s and Queerty’s publicizing the details and the general air of hostility between the Church of Scientology and the public, anything is possible.
We have no way of knowing who was involved, all that remains clear is someone did not want Ian’s film watched that evening.
[Editor’s note: correction made to tone scale rating on homosexuality]
I had this in my possession thanks to the wonderful largess of a fabulous person, but was unable to parse it out into the increments needed to upload onto YouTube. By the grace of Yahweh, someone did the hard work for me. Behold ladies and gentlemen, all the glory of David Miscavige celebrating the greatest triumph of the Church of Scientology (besides recruiting Tom Cruise as its mascot) in their epic victory of litigious endeavors ever attempted: winning tax exempt status.
Glosslip Radio is pleased to announce this week’s guest is lawyer Jeffrey I. Zuckerman, a partner
with law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Mosle and will be with us to discuss the pending lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit titled Sklar v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. Zuckerman represents Michael and Marla Sklar, a Los Angeles couple who seek to establish legal precedent as it pertains to the secret agreement reached between the IRS and the Church of Scientology in 1993.
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Mr. Zuckerman is an accomplished lawyer who specializes “in the fields of U.S. and international antitrust law and trade regulation, employment law, and other governmental regulation of business” within his practice at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Mosle. Prior to becoming a partner for the firm 1989, “Mr. Zuckerman was the Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission (1986-89); Chief of Staff at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1984-86); and Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (1981-84).”
Some of the questions we will be discussing with Mr. Zuckerman on the show will be:
Why did the Sklars decide to take legal action?
How did they become aware of the CoS agreement and how it pertained to their case with the IRS?
What do you think the ramifications will be for a loss in this case? What about a win?
How far into the legal process do you feel this case will go before there is a resolution? Supreme Court?
Have you been before the Supreme Court before?
Does the court of “public opinion” help or hurt this case and for whom?
Have the Sklar’s been contacted by anyone from the Church of Scientology? Have you?
Why do you think the IRS made this agreement with the CoS, and why haven’t they disclosed it even now, with a case pending?
Do you think the IRS will be able to prove their case, since the burden of proof lies with them (and CoS of course)?
Have the Sklars/you considered filing a class-action suit?
If anyone has additional questions as they relate to this case, please login to the chatroom during the show, we will be fielding questions to Mr. Zuckerman and encourage you to participate. There will be an additional 30 minutes starting, from 11:00 - 11:30 for discussion after the show for anyone who has information they want to share or topics they wish to discuss either relating to this interview or the upcoming March 15th global protests planned by Anonymous.
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology is quoted as saying:
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.”
Not to compare religious ideologies or beliefs, but that seems an unlikely foundation for any of the other major religions in the world. It is also important to note that no religion is without its failures, faults, murders, missteps and sordid history. But my conclusion is that Scientology isn’t a religion, and the mere fact that its founder based his ideology on making money goes to prove the point: money is the root of all evil. And tacking the term religion onto a derived set of self-help techniques cobbled together by a man who was previously known for writing mediocre science fiction, is dubious to say the least.
The cyber-based group calling themselves “Anonymous/Legion” have announced their next wave of protests against the Church of Scientology will be February 10. They released a new video in connection with a post on this site.
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