Big kerfuffle in the entertainment gossip world today comes as Paul Haggis
quits the Church of Scientology in a huff, citing factors as diverse as the organization's involvement in supporting Proposition 8 and the ways it requires members to cut out certain members of their families. The thing that I've never understood about Scientology is how it attracts--and asserts control over--so many people who are otherwise concerned with creative freedom. Maybe there's something attractive in handing over control of one, or several, areas of your life when the rest of it relies so much on taking risks and pouring yourself into fictional worlds. But I don't understand it.