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Victoria Beckham says no religion talk with stars Posted: 10 Jul 2007 11:08 PM CDT Wednesday July 11, 07:35 AM NEW YORK (Reuters) - Victoria Beckham and her soccer star husband might be moving near their friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in Los Angeles, but the former pop star is clear about one thing — it’s not about religion. The Beckhams have struck up a close friendship with actors Cruise and Holmes, who are both Scientologists. Cruise has been spotted watching David Beckham play for Real Madrid in Spain and the wives photographed shopping and dining together. But Beckham, 33, the former “Posh Spice” member of the 1990s band “The Spice Girls,” told a television interview to mark her family’s move to the United States that religion was nothing to do with their friendship. “There’s been so much made of the Scientology, the this, the that. They are genuinely lovely people. Wonderful family,” Beckham said in an interview to be aired on Thursday on NBC’s “Today” program. Beckham said religion was not an issue when the couples socialized and it had not even come up. “They do their thing. We do our thing,” said Beckham, who was married by an Anglican Church of Ireland bishop near Dublin in 1999. The Beckhams, who have three sons, were among a star-studded guest list at Cruise and Holmes’ Scientology wedding in Italy last November. Holmes, 28, who was raised a Catholic, gave birth to daughter Suri in April that year. Cruise is an ardent follower of the religion founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. David Beckham agreed to move his family to Los Angeles after signing a five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy team. Reuters/Nielsen (Source: Yahoo xtra Entertainment)

German anti-Nazi hero backs Cruise in film on plot to kill Hitler Posted: 10 Jul 2007 11:06 PM CDT Tue Jul 10, 10:16 AM ET BERLIN (AFP) - Tom Cruise received backing Tuesday for his contested plans to play the mastermind behind a daring bid to assassinate Adolf Hitler from one of the real-life hero’s fellow conspirators. Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, 89, told the German daily Bild that the uproar in Germany over the Hollywood star’s links to the Church of Scientology in no way disqualified him to play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg. “I think it is good that Cruise is playing Stauffenberg,” Boeselager said in an interview to be printed Wednesday. “He is a good actor. But he must not be allowed to advertise for Scientology with the movie.” Filming is to begin next week in Berlin on “Valkyrie,” named after the code name of the plot. But the city authorities have restricted where the crew can film and some German officials have expressed discomfort with the idea of Cruise, a dedicated Scientologist, playing a national hero and martyr. Germany considers the Scientology movement a commercial operation that exploits vulnerable people. Boeselager belonged to Stauffenberg’s cadre of aristocratic military officers who conspired to kill Hitler in 1944. The group planted a bomb under a table in Hitler’s eastern headquarters in East Prussia. But the Nazi leader escaped with slight injuries because an officer had moved the briefcase containing the explosives behind a sturdy leg of the oak table. Stauffenberg was rounded up that night and executed by firing squad along with other officers at the Bendlerblock, then the army headquarters in Berlin and now a memorial to the German resistance. Boeselager, who had acquired the explosives used in the attacks, said he believed the Hollywood thriller had an important message to send to international audiences. “I hope that the German resistance will become more well-known thanks to the film. People know so little about it in the United States.” In Germany, the group is under observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and several state security watchdogs. But it is no longer being monitored by the Berlin authorities after a successful court challenge by the group. The US-based Church of Scientology is also regarded with suspicion in European countries such as France and Belgium. “Valkyrie” is directed by Bryan Singer and co-written by Christopher McQuarrie, the team behind the Oscar-winning 1995 thriller “The Usual Suspects”. (Source: Yahoo)

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