Tom Leaving Hollywood

Tom Cruise Is Making Plans to Move — Permanently — to Clearwater, Fla., the Home Base of His Controversial Religion
 

For a brief time, more than a decade ago, Tom Cruise was very open about his controversial beliefs, often to the detriment of his big-screen career. (Remember in 2005, when a Today appearance meant to promote War of the Worlds was almost entirely derailed by his bizarre disagreement with Matt Lauer about the safety and efficacy of antidepressants?) But in the past few years, Tom has stayed more or less mum on the subject of Scientology... until this fall, that is, when he again spoke out. “It’s a beautiful religion,” he told a reporter at a premiere of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. “I’m incredibly proud.”