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Tom Cruise’s scientology wedding

The actor is said to perform a Scientology wedding for a friend.
The “War of the Worlds” star is a zealous adherent of Scientology. Cruise will conduct James Packer’s wedding on France’s Cote d’Azur on Wednesday (20.06.07), according to Women’s Wear Daily magazine.
The wealthy Australian heir is going to marry model-turned-singer Erica Baxter. Packer is one of the wealthiest benefactors of the Church of Scientology after he inherited $6.5 billion fortune when his father, Kerry Packer, died last year.
Packer is believed to have booked out Grand Hotel du Cap-Ferrat and the Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc for wedding guests.
Meanwhile, Cruise has reignited controversy surrounding his film about German WWII officer Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg.
The 44-year-old actor was seen leaving a Scientology Church in Berlin with his wife Katie Holmes at midnight. That made reporters and critics think that he is planning to “inject” Scientology propaganda into his new film. If this rumor turns right this will provoke many controversies.
Cruise will play the nobleman - who tried and failed to kill Adolf Hitler - in the movie due to be filmed in Berlin this summer.
Even before the release of the film relatives of Schenk von Stauffenberg have expressed their worries of propaganda being involved in the film in interviews
Cruise’s beliefs have caused him troubles before too. There were rumors that his wife Katie Holmes is going to leave him because she couldn’t bear all those requirements of her husband’s religion.