Actress Leah Remini has severed ties with the Church of Scientology, a source with knowledge of her decision said on Thursday, making her one of the most high-profile members to quit. Remini, best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan in the sitcom King of Queens, issued a statement following press reports that she had decided to leave the church.
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Dying of the light
If you stick around through the closing credits of Before Midnight, the latest film in the trilogy that also includes Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, you’ll see that the movie is dedicated to someone whose name even the most die-hard fans have never heard before: Amy Lehrhaupt.
Will Smith’s Scientology disaster
The pressure is on Will Smith. His new film, After Earth, has crashed in the US, breaking his box office winning streak
May the creative force be with him
Inside a seemingly unremarkable garage in Hamilton, starship captains and swashbuckling adventurers take shape. The studio of British-born artist Paul Shipper is a wonderland for film buffs and science fiction fans.
Will.i.am surprises with $100k donation
Grammy-award winning hip hop artist Will.i.am jetted into Auckland for a company party last night, but he’s not going home without leaving something behind.
Matrix creators making scifi series
Netflix is teaming up with the creative force behind The Matrix action movie franchise for a new science fiction series that will be available only to subscribers of the video streaming service. Sense8, a 10-episode series described as a tale of minds linked and souls hunted, will debut on Netflix in late 2014, Netflix said in a statement.
The Great Scientology Implosion: Author Details Church on the Decline
The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for a journalist. The press has long been considered an enemy of the Church, which was founded half a century ago by science fiction writer L.
Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine , preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually
Jupiter, Mars and the Moon will all be visited soon
Like pretty much every other agency in the government, NASA is likely to be hurting for money over the next few years.
Ruling Halts Federal Funding of Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research
A year and a half after President Obama loosened restrictions on government funding of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, a federal judge on Monday, Aug. 23, declared all such studies temporarily off-limits for taxpayer dollars, on the grounds that they violate a 1996 law.