5 “the most effective rehabilitation”: What Is Scientology? p. 412.
6 “the heart and soul”: Vernon Scott, “ ‘Narconon Salvaged My Life’—Kirstie Alley,” UPI, May 3, 1990.
7 “Hubbard Detoxification Day”: “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project,” undated Scientology publication.
8 “Starting in the schools”: Celebrity Interview: Kelly Preston, Celebrity, #376, undated, p. 13.
9 The church claims that: Tommy Davis on Today, Jan. 8, 2009.
10 Hubbard himself denounced: Hubbard, “Expanded Dianetics Lecture No. 2,” April 7, 1972.
11 “With Jett, you started him”: “Kelly Preston: A Mother’s Crusade,” Montel Williams Show, Mar. 12, 2003.
12 “thought, life, form, matter”: “Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates,” Issue 1, Flag, June, 1970.
13 “I love the fact that you guys”: Interviews with Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
14 He agreed to teach: Interview with Larry Anderson.
15 B. Dalton ordered 65,000: Interview with Bill Dendiu. The church disputes the sales figures but does not provide alternative numbers. By 1990, more than twenty of Hubbard’s books—both novels and nonfiction—had become national best sellers, most of them after his death four years earlier. At one point, Hubbard had fourteen consecutive books on the New York Times best-seller lists. There were allegations that the church was sending members to buy massive quantities of Hubbard’s books to drive up the sales figures. The Times investigated those charges but failed to find any instances where large numbers of Hubbard books were being sold to single individuals. In any case, the booksellers were happy to sell them.
16 “He has had a string”: Tommy Davis denies that Miscavige met Haggis at the race. “Indeed, we cannot find any record that Mr. Haggis ever met Mr. Miscavige.” Both Bill Dendiu and Haggis recall the conversation, however. Jefferson Hawkins has written that Miscavige and other Scientology executives were at the race; Counterfeit Dreams, p. 174. David Miscavige refused many requests to speak to me.
17 Travolta himself at the controls: Interview with Paul Haggis. Travolta’s attorney agrees that his client was at the race.
18 RPF running program: Interview with Guy White.
19 “Have you ever been”: Ibid.
20 “People could see”: Ibid.
21 “Is he? Is he?”: Ibid.
22 His vehicles are still: Interview with Marc Headley.
23 On his nightstand is: Sue Lindsay, “Studio’s Ready for Man Who Never Came, Never Will,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986; interview with Tom De Vocht.
24 “for the next 20–25 years”: David Mayo, “An Open Letter to All Scientologists,” www.freezone.org/reports/e_mayool.htm.
25 Arthur blew: Interview with Guy White.
26 “a functional illiterate”: Morton, Tom Cruise, p. 41.
27 an amateur troupe: Ibid., p. 9.
28 We felt like fugitives”: Ibid., p. 18.
29 a year in seminary: Ibid., p. 25.
30 Cruise’s first wife … introduced: Rogers denies this, although her father, Philip Spickler, confirms this often published account.
31 Using his birth name: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 273.
32 Rogers’s close friend: Ibid.
33 Cruise would later credit: Luchina Fisher, “Celebrities with Dyslexia Who Made It Big,” ABC Good Morning America, Sept. 28, 2012, abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/celebrities-dyslexia-made-big/story?id=17338379#2.
34 But Mimi’s parents had: Interview with Philip Spickler.
35 When Miscavige learned: Morton, Tom Cruise, p. 138.
36 Cruise arrived wearing: Interview with Sinar Parman.
37 “I told her”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
38 “He thought he had to be celibate”: Michael Angeli, “Screaming Mimi,” Playboy, March 1993.
39 After two years, Annie: Interview with Jim Logan. Headley, Blown for Good, pp. 98–99; and Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009.
40 church funds were used to purchase: Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994.
41 Surrounded by a security: Interviews with Claire Headley, Mark “Marty” Rathbun, and Jesse Prince.
42 “like one would find in a convent”: Church of Scientology responses to queries.
43 continuously under guard: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009. Tidman’s lawyer denied to the newspaper that she had been held against her will.
44 “non-enturbulation order”: Interview with Jim Logan.
45 “They can’t make me divorce you”: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009.
46 “doomsday machine”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.