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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were rumored to have gotten hitched in a scientology ceremony according to the Post Chronicle, we sit back and discuss the implications of this union.

Additionally, Cruise was rumored to have gotten a rerun of the "South Park" episode "Trapped in the Closet" cancelled by threatening Viacom owned Paramount Pictures, who also owns Comedy Central, that he'd refuse to promote Mission Impossible 3 if the show aired. We obviously had something to say about this, but you can read the PageSix article here.

If you would like to watch the episode of "South Park" in question don't worry, YouTube has it right here.

The best part of this story is probably the reaction by show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker who were quoted in an article over at Variety with the following statement:

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

The duo signed the statement "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."

Continuing on the "South Park" front, Isaac Hayes, who played Chef has left the show citing unusual reasons considering the history of the controversial show.

Hayes, a known supporter of Scientology, was quoted by CBS News saying, "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.

"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

This didn't sit well with show creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who fired back saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology… He has no problem – and he's cashed plenty of checks – with our show making fun of Christians."

Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city."

"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices…"

"And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash – excuse me – Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."

You can read the full rant right here.

Apparently Lindsay Lohan will do nudity if "it's a role that's going to win [her] an Oscar…" We have plenty to say about this. Get the story here.

Salma Hayek stars with Colin Farrell in Robert Towne's Ask the Dust. She also gets very much naked along with Farrell and she is now insisting the nudity is necessary to the role as she is quoted by Contact Music saying, "because it represents (my character CAMILLA's) spirit, which is very free, and yet she lives in world where she's very repressed by the circumstances."

Sticking to the nudity front, Sharon Stone ranted some curious words as she was quoted by MSNBC saying that she wanted her nudity in her upcoming feature Basic Instinct 2 to be "disturbing and threatening." Does anyone else find this curious?

For those of you above the age of 17 you can go here and check out the steamy promo reel for the upcoming film as we banter on about this interesting quote.

ON PITT AND JOLIE: "I don't know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful wife to go hold orphans for Angelina," Douglas snipes in GQ's April issue, hitting newsstands March 21. "I mean, how long is that going to last?"

ON ZELWEGGER AND JULIA ROBERTS: "I mean, don't ask me what happened with Renee Zellweger. I don't know how you get married for four months. And Julia with Lyle."

ON MARRIAGE TO ZETA-JONES: "been fortunate. You learn to respect something of value and nurture it and treat it well."

You can read the full article at CBS News here.

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A three-week long trial that has swung from the religious mysteries in "The Da Vinci Code" to the more tedious world of copyright law approaches its climax on Monday.

Lawyers for Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors who claim the novelist Dan Brown "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 nonfiction book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," are to begin their closing arguments in Britain's High Court.

Baigent and Leigh are suing Random House, publishers of "The Da Vinci Code," for copyright infringement.

Both "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" explore theories dismissed by theologians that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the couple had a child and that the bloodline survives.

On Friday, lawyers for Random House argued that the case of Baigent and Leigh was in tatters, saying Brown's work gathered a number of incidents and put them together in a unique way, which was why he had a hit novel.

Brown has acknowledged that he and his wife, Blythe Brown, read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" while researching "The Da Vinci Code," but said they also used 38 other books and hundreds of documents, and that the British authors' book had not been crucial.

"The ideas are of too general a nature to be capable of copyright protection," said John Baldwin, a lawyer for Brown.

Brown spent three days on the witness stand defending his book and his research methods. "The Da Vinci Code" follows the fictional professor Robert Langdon as he investigates the murder of an elderly member of an ancient society that guards dark secrets about the story of Jesus and the quest for the Holy Grail.

If Baigent and Leigh succeed in securing an injunction to bar the use of their material, they could hold up the scheduled May 19 film release of "The Da Vinci Code," starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. Sony Pictures says it plans to release the film as scheduled.

SOURCE: YAHOO!

Luke Wilson is lined up for the role of Bobby Ewing, and there are whispers that Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross is in the running to play his wife Pamela.

Shirley MacLaine will play matriarchal Miss Ellie, with Bill Murray stepping into the shoes of 'Jock' Ewing.