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From USA Today
'South Park'-Scientology battle rages
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy Central's South Park has declared war on Scientology.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" Parker and Stone said Friday.
By Ann Johansson, AP

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday — with Internet rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the South Park creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"

Internet bloggers accused Cruise of threatening to not promote Mission Impossible 3, a surefire summer blockbuster, if the offending episode ran. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, as is Paramount, which is putting out MI:3.

But Cruise's representative, Arnold Robinson, told The Associated Press Friday that the mega-star made no such demands.

"Not true," Robinson said. "I can tell you that he never said that."

A call by The Associated Press to a Paramount representative was not returned Friday.

The episode in question, Trapped in the Closet, which first aired last November, shows Scientology leaders hailing Stan, one of the show's four devilish fourth graders, as a savior. A cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out. An animated John Travolta, another famous Scientologist, enters the closet to try to get him out.

In another dig at the famously secretive religion, the credits at show's end are filled with names like "John Smith" and "Jane Smith."

The battle began in earnest earlier this week when Isaac Hayes, another celebrity Scientologist and longtime show member — voicing the ladies' man Chef — quit the show, saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."

Stone and Parker didn't buy that either.

On Monday, Stone told The Associated Press, "This is 100% having to do with his faith in Scientology...He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."

A Comedy Central spokesman said Friday that the network pulled the controversial episode to make room for two shows featuring Hayes.

"In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for," the spokesman said.

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r3x29yz4a said:

'South Park'-Scientology battle rages
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy Central's South Park has declared war on Scientology.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" Parker and Stone said Friday.
By Ann Johansson, AP

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday — with Internet rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.

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Godzilla vs. "South Park" Guys

Godzilla is going to be getting the Tom Cruise treatment from Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

The crass cut-ups behind Comedy Central's South Park, have clinched a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop two live-action features, their first outings with flesh-and-blood actors in nearly a decade. The first project will be a high school comedy titled My All-American; the second, a spoofy homage to rubber-suited, Tokyo-leveling beasties, Giant Monsters Attack Japan! (The latter recalls South Park's first-season-ending episode, "Mecha Streisand," in which Barbara Streisand transforms into a Godzilla-like creature to battle the Cure's Robert Smith.)

According to Variety, My All-American will be written by Jeff Roda and Giant Monsters by Under Seige scribe J.F. Lawton.

Parker will helm both pics, while Stone will produce through the pair's newly renamed Important Pictures shingle. They will also collaborate with the two screenwriters in honing the stories. While South Park remains a small-screen hit, and its 1999 movie version was a critical success and did solid business, the two have had trouble translating their comic sensibilities to the big screen. Parker's previous live-action directing credits include the little-seen Cannibal: The Musical! (1996) and Orgazmo (1997); the pair also wrote and starred in the live-action 1998 bomb BASEketball, which was directed by David Zucker. Additionally, they codirected, cowrote and provided many of the voices for 2004's marionette-based spoof Team America: World Police, which also failed to spark much interest at the box office.

"We learned from the last two films that these can't all be self-generated," Stone told the trade paper. "Trey and I are script whores, so we'll be very involved in shaping these projects. We've averaged a movie every five years. We'd like to make more and produce films that give other directors a chance."

Monsters will also be supervised veteran producer Sean Daniels and Nickelodeon Movies, which earlier this month released the animated comedy Barnyard and last year's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

There's no word on casting. "Neither of these movies feel like vehicles for big stars, but this will be our opportunity to find out if there are any actors left who want to work with us," Stone said in Variety.

As they've done for the past 10 years, Parker and Stone will work on the films during their hiatus from South Park, which is currently in the midst of its 10th envelope-pushing, Kenny-killing season. Last fall, the cartoon masterminds signed a new pact with Comedy Central that will keep Cartman and the gang on the air for at least another three years.

That relationship turned rocky for a time when Comedy Central refused to rebroadcast their Cruise-skewering episode "Trapped in the Closet," after reportedly fielding pressure from the star (Camp Cruise denied the allegation). Parker and Stone recently told reporters at the Television Critics Association's annual press tour that they thought about not doing any movies with the cable network's parent company if they continued to ban the episode. Comedy Central placed "Trapped" back in the rerun rotation after it garnered an Emmy nomination earlier this summer (the show lost out last weekend to The Simpsons).

They also weren't too happy when network bosses censored the image of Mohammed from April's special two-part cliffhanger, "Cartoon Wars," and initially balked on reairing "Bloody Mary," about a Virgin Mary statue bleeding from its rear end, last December after complaints from the Catholic League.

If all goes according to plan, My All-American High will start shooting in the first half of 2007 and production on Giant Monsters will most likely get rolling in 2008.

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Tom Cruise said:

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Wednesday said:
...and we believe in God.

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Personally this makes more sense if you said;...and we believe in Religions.

Ultimately the very defination what God is has been distorted because of Religion. I rather not think of God as being a Superdominant being, but just the creator of what is. Whether that creator is just the "Big Bang" or something even greator, we will never know, but regardless it is what was and without it we wouldn't even be here.

Now Religion, this is trully what jacks people up, sure they all have some good qualities but for the most part its all the same. Muslims, Evangelicals, Jews, Scientologist, etc...etc.. any type of extremism is what causes plenty of the worlds problems.

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Jeremy said:
The guy was rude, but Cruise's line: "You're a jerk!" was hilarious.

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Iroc Camaro said:
Personally this makes more sense if you said;...and we believe in Religions.

Ultimately the very defination what God is has been distorted because of Religion. I rather not think of God as being a Superdominant being, but just the creator of what is. Whether that creator is just the "Big Bang" or something even greator, we will never know, but regardless it is what was and without it we wouldn't even be here.

Now Religion, this is trully what jacks people up, sure they all have some good qualities but for the most part its all the same. Muslims, Evangelicals, Jews, Scientologist, etc...etc.. any type of extremism is what causes plenty of the worlds problems.

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Jeremy said:
Cruise asks for it by acting like a damned fool on live television. He took himself down a peg with the way he treated Brooke Shields. I don't see him as the office jerk at all, he's a nut.

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Iroc Camaro said:
Personally this makes more sense if you said;...and we believe in Religions.

Ultimately the very defination what God is has been distorted because of Religion. I rather not think of God as being a Superdominant being, but just the creator of what is. Whether that creator is just the "Big Bang" or something even greator, we will never know, but regardless it is what was and without it we wouldn't even be here.

Now Religion, this is trully what jacks people up, sure they all have some good qualities but for the most part its all the same. Muslims, Evangelicals, Jews, Scientologist, etc...etc.. any type of extremism is what causes plenty of the worlds problems.

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......You're an idiot.

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Spoken like a true Christian...

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Jeremy said:
Cruise asks for it by acting like a damned fool on live television. He took himself down a peg with the way he treated Brooke Shields.

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Prometheus said:
I really don't have much to say. I just wanted to insult Pariah's Christian faith by corresponding with a tard who at least has something bad to say about religion, no matter how stupid or non-sensical it is.

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