Jack Holliday, Author at The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/author/jackholliday/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Jack Holliday, Author at The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/author/jackholliday/ 32 32 Tom Cruise: Scientology Now Cures Dyslexia, Too! https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tom-cruise-scientology-now-cures-20090105/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tom-cruise-scientology-now-cures-20090105/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:05:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9073 The Huffington Post reports that Tom Cruise recently revealed that he was diagnosed with a learning disability when he was 7 (and we thought the eye patch was fake).

Apparently he suffered from dyslexia and was often anxious, frustrated and bored as a youth until he discovered Scientology. That’s right, L. Ron Hubbard can cure ADHD with science fiction. Can Jesus’ Bible do that? Believe what you want about Scientology, but Tom Cruise made better movies when he couldn’t read the scripts.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tom-cruise-scientology-now-cures-20090105/feed/ 0 Ben Stiller Breaks Hand: Will This Miraculously Mean He’s Not Cast In ‘Greenberg’? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/ben-stiller-breaks-hand-will-this-20081231/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/ben-stiller-breaks-hand-will-this-20081231/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:39:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9090 Sheknows.com reports that Ben Stiller broke his hand earlier this week, and no the injury did not occur while masturbating into Cameron Diaz’s hair. It happened during a holiday skiing retreat (in preparation to show off his skiing expertise at Sundance no doubt). Which begs the question could this prevent him from starring in Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg“? God, we sure pray and hope so, unless of course the role requires him to go full on retard.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/ben-stiller-breaks-hand-will-this-20081231/feed/ 1 Tim Burton Wants To Terrify Your Children https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tim-burton-wants-to-terrify-your-20081230/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tim-burton-wants-to-terrify-your-20081230/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:01:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9093 A teaser trailer for Tim Burton‘s CGI animated film “9” was released this week and it seems Burton is back doing what he does best: Creeping out children. 9 is based on Shane Acker‘s Oscar nominated short about a team of rag dolls in a post apocalyptic world attempting to save the earth from destructive machines. At first glance this film seems too weird and creepy for kids, but then again they remake The Nightmare Before Christmas every year with a new name.

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