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Celeb News: UPDATE: Dr. Drew: Tom Cruise is mentally ill

Dr. Drew Pinsky of VH1′s Celebrity Rehab made the following remarks about Tom Cruise and his passion for Scientology in the latest issue of Playboy. Dr. Drew finds it particularly interesting that the religion/cult rejects psychology:

“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood – maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

Tom Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields fired back in Page Six today and basically compared Dr. Drew’s methods to those of the Nazi’s. Wait, I thought Nazi’s hated Jews not Scientologists. Damn you, American education system!:

“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

If I were Tom Cruise’s lawyer, I would’ve tried a different tact:”Well, duh, Dr. Drew. Jesus, of course, Tom Cruise is crazy. Real keen analysis there. I anxiously await your thesis: ‘The sky is blue.’ Hold on, Tom Cruise is telling me the sky is actually the color of Thetan tears because they’re caged in a stratsopheric mind warp that makes us all sad. Wow, seriously, Tom? Here’s a cookie. Say, I think I saw a Thetan trapped in the fax machine. Go get ‘em!”Damn, I should just skip the whole bar association thing and start taking clients. Who wants to be first to get law-gified?UPDATE: Dr. Drew’s rep issued the following bullshit apology: “Although Mr. Fields’s intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm.”

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Celeb Gossip: Tila Tequila: I saved gay marriage!

Tila Tequila packs a whole lot of ego in her Asian Leprechaun body. She’s claiming her MTV show A Shot at Love opened the doors to gay marriage in California, according to Us Magazine:

“It is because of me — I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships],” she said. “Then they realized, ‘Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.’ The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.”

Somewhere, Ellen DeGeneres just bought a fishing net. No one usurps her “Everyone’s Favorite Lesbian” throne. She didn’t tell Rosie to “be herself” on The View for this to happen. Now, where’s her 4-wheeler with the midget harpoon gun…NOTE: Obviously we’re experiencing some technical issues, guys, so big apologies. But, on a side note, I have learned a valuable lesson: Our server does not, in fact, double as a deli slicer. Now what do I do with all this pastrami?

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Gossip: Tim Russert dead at 58 of heart attack

Veteran anchor Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press has died today at age 58 of a heart attack, according to The New York Times:

Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of NBC Nightly News, came on the air at 3:39 p.m. that Mr. Russert had collapsed and died early this afternoon while at work. He had just returned from Italy with his family.
“Our beloved colleague,” a grave Mr. Brokaw called him, one of the premier journalists of our time. He said this was one of the most important years in his life, with his deep engagement in the network’s political coverage, and that he “worked to the point of exhaustion.” Mr. Brokaw said Mr. Russert was a true child of Buffalo and always stayed in touch with his blue collar roots and “the ethos of that community.”

Tim hosted Meet the Press since 1991 and interviewed prominent political figures on his own MSNBC show Tim Russert. He is survived by his wife Vanity Fair correspondent Maureen Orth and son Luke.

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