His Highness Hollywood Movie Premiere: Excitement, Entertainment and Sabotage
Authors Ian Halperin and Andrew Morton
Ian Halperin, best-selling author and documentarian, took every precaution to make sure the premiere of his new film "His Highness Hollywood" went smoothly. The film, which chronicles Halperin's investigative foray into the world of Hollywood, is a side-by-side, chapter-by-chapter look at his experiences writing the book, Hollywood Undercover.
Ian and I first communicated with each other back in January during the blitz of media coverage surrounding the release of Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise biography and the leaking of a video featuring an unhinged Cruise extolling the "virtues" of Scientology. Ian's book, much like Andrew's, deals with the inextricable link between Hollywood, Celebrities and the Church of Scientology.
Simply put, they are two sums of a whole part. Not only does Scientology present an imposing physical presence in Hollywood, with their gothic-style Celebrity Center nestled comfortably on Hollywood Blvd, but they have a stable of stars which would make any organization envious. As Tom Cruise says, "it's KSW" and the CoS has Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Nancy Cartwright, Kirstie Alley and many, many more, who are doing their part to "keep Scientology working."
Switching coasts, I find myself invited to Ian's premiere, held at the prestigious National Arts Club in Manhattan. While Glosslip has been fighting tooth and nail to carve a niche for ourselves in fly-over country, in no way was I going to let a little thing like distance keep me from attending this premiere. Eric, my husband and the publisher of Blogcritics.org, was supposed to go with me, but alas the timing was not right for us both to be gone, so with his blessings and support I was told to go forth and represent.
Ian asked me not to publicize the premiere, somewhat contrary to how these types of events go. But then again, Ian's got a good reason to fly this event under the radar: The Church of Scientology. As part of Ian's documentary, he goes in undercover as a "gay actor and member of a wealthy, royal Israeli family" and asks if the Church of Scientology could cure him of his gayness, oh and ostensibly, to help him with his budding Hollywood career. If you didn't laugh about the fictitious "Israeli royal family" thing, you certainly should have about the "curing him of his gayness."
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