More Cruise clips come to light

Search engines were buzzing again overnight with searches for unauthorised video clips featuring Tom Cruise espousing his controversial belief in Scientology. Some of the new clips are from the same 2004 video - dubbed "the video that Scientologists don't want you to see" - aired earlier this week which feature Cruise talking about the privilege of being a Scientologist.

In the latest footage, Cruise discusses how he cut through government bureaucracy to respond to the needs of firefighters after 9/11. "He never merely lends his name," the narrator intones, going on to describe how on a trip to the rubble of Ground Zero, Cruise "saw the dust and heard the cough" and knew he had to help the rescue workers who were suffering from their exposure to toxic fumes.

At one point, Cruise describes hearing an Environmental Protection Agency spokesperson claim the air at Ground Zero was clean. "As a Scientologist you say, 'That's a lie,'" Cruise says emphatically, while the video goes on to describe how Cruise sidestepped the government and "didn't ask permission" to help the rescue workers when he founded the New York Rescue Workers Detox Project.

Using the theories of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to improve the health of rescue workers, the group treated more than 780 rescue workers with heavy doses of vitamins and hours spent in a sauna sweating off toxins. But when it came time for the city of New York to honor Cruise last April, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg opted out, saying: "I think that reputable scientists do not think Scientology has any basis in science. It may be a cult, it may be a religion, it may be beliefs. It's other things, but it's not science."

The Church has threatened litigation against those who are keeping the clips up and running, claiming copyright infringement. Scientologists claim the videos were made privately and are under their copyright and that a disgruntled former member stole them from the Church.

Meanwhile, Cruise's wife Katie Holmes is having a bad week with her new film Mad Money. The Hollywood Reporter describes it as an "improbable and generally unfunny comedy" while Variety's critic says the film is "banking on the chemistry of Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah - with co-star Katie Holmes awkwardly upsetting the balance."

Unfortunately for Holmes, the opening of Mad Money comes on the heels of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography by Andrew Morton and its bizarre allegation that Holmes's daughter Suri was created from the frozen sperm of Scientology founder Hubbard. Holmes is avoiding any media interviews that involve discussing the Morton allegations.