Bad News BAG
Life isn't all beer and skittles when you're married to Megan Fox. There are also out standing unpaid debts from the ex to deal with. Back in 1990 Brain Austin Green was involved witht he mother of his now nine year old child. Her name is Vanessa Marcil. For some reason he gave, or loaned, her $50 000. Who knows what possessed him to hand over that kind of money except that it was probably cheaper than paying off some lawyer. Then he topped that off by giving or loaning her another whopping $150 000!Well that was over 20 years ago and BAG says he ain't sen one thin dime of the cash she allegedly owes him since. Even though he asked for pay back as recently as November! So he's going off to court to get satisfaction! To that end BAG has filed suit against his ex to the tune of 200 000, for the unpaid loan and for unspecified damages. Now 20 years might seem like a long time to wait to get a 200 000 loan paid back but give BAG a break. Meggers ain't been making any Transformers lately! Incidentally Brian and Vanessa worked together back on 91210.
Gene Hackman had a run in recently literally. The 81 yaer old was out and about riding his bike in the Florida Keys when he got knocked over by a passing motorist. He was reported as suffering serious injuries to the head and body, and was airlifted to hospital. Before the Hackman fans start freaking that was at 3 PM local time yesterday. By 2:40 PT he was released from hospital. Hackman inists that he's fine and onl;y suffered bumps and bruises after being hit by a driver from behind. So let that be a warning to you aboutt he dangers of exercise and other forms of physical activity!
the latest on Scientology
It's been awhile since there have been any good Scientology stories but that seems to be changing. For years Marty Rathbun was Scientology's No 2 exec. Rathbun recently revealed by way of his blog that for years Scientology used a man named Michael Doven, now a celebrity photographer, to keeps taps on one of their top assets - Tom Cruise.
Back in 1990 Cruise was with Kidman. That put some strain on his relationship with the Church of Scientology and with it's leader David Miscavige. It seems that Ms Kidman didn't care for Miscavige and feared that he would be some kind of bad influence on Tom. So she laid down the law - no more hanging around Int Base. Tom was eager to please his high strung and demanding partner, so he went along with it. That lead to a period of estrangement between him and the church.
Just because Tom stopped coming by didn't mean that Miscavidge had forgotten about him. In act the head Scientologist had his ways of staying in touch. Among them was Michael Doven, an employee of the Cruise, and a Church member. Doven would report everything he saw and heard int he Cruise household back to Miscavige and his then associates, like Rathbun. By everything I mean everything, like Cruise's marriage with Kidman, his concerns about the Church, and his working relationship with Steven Spielberg. This allowed the Church to win Cruise back by tailoring an approach around his personal issues and concerns. Cruise eventually returned to the fold back in 2001.
For more on this story head on over to the Voice, where they have an extensive transcript of conversations between Michel and Marty:
Village Voice: running scared
Village Voice: What Is Scientology?
BTW most of the anti Scientology stuff that's been coming out since 2000 has been from former Church members, often high ranking ones. In some cases officials who were defending the Church in one new show might be blowing the whistle on the same program a year later. So that raises the question as to whether or not the whole Scientology brouhaha is just some power struggle within the Church by people who may be unhappy with Miscavidge's leadership, and are using the media to stir things up. If Miscavidge goes the same people may be in reverse spin a little later, and then you'll hear a lot of pro Scientology stuff coming out of those same sources. It's the media spinning game. Unfortunately the ever vigilant media seems to have missed the deeper story - vicious infighting, in spite of so many ex members dropping by in eager tattle mode to drop of the latest Scientology scoop.
Hopefully I'm not coming off like a Scientology sympathizer. Though some groups can be very quietly critical of Scientology, here at Wondertrash every dogma gets it's day!
Since we began with BAG and his lovely wife Megan Fox, let's end with some Megan Fox inspired Wonder Woman art!
Tabloid preserved for posterity online!
For those of you who loved the old Weekly World News you can now go back in time a read read your favorites about Bat boy, Hilary Clinton Impregnated by Aliens, and World's Fattest Cat Eats Owner! They're stored online @ GoogleBooks!
image courtesy of the Cave of Cool
