Pop Culture News and Views by Journalist Ian Halperin

Many bloggers like Dawn Olsen (Glosslip), Gawker and Jossip have in the past uncovered the facts on L. Ron’s pseudo religion.  Now, Richard Price unleashes a blockbuster in one of the world’s leading mainstream papers.  Check it out (Daily Mail)

Each time a celebs son dies in the Bahamas it shows off to the world how inept and corrupt the police force is on that tiny, hide your cash resort island.  First, when Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel passed away more than two years ago, there were more conflicting reports how he died than there [...]

I’ve had my run ins with John Travolta after I wrote my expose about Scientology, which inlcluded a lot of his strange forays in the Church.  But today I must send him peace, love and light.  Jett Travolta, 16,  battled autism his whole life and died of a seizure, possibly hitting his head on a [...]

Michael Pattinson joined The Church of Scientology around the same time as John Travolta some 25 years ago. Scientology, he says, offered him a cure for his homosexuality. Pattinson, who claims Travolta’s longtime ex male lover Paul Barresi gave him intimate details, says unwaveringly how homophobic Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard [...]

The world’s leading authority on the Church of Scientology, long-time Church critic Arnie Lerma, believes that yesterday’s 8-hour blackout of my site, following an explosive expose of new Scientologist Will Smith, was very likely the result of sabotage by the COS.
Lerma, a one-time fiancee of L. Ron Hubbard’s daughter, Suzette, runs the respected Scientology watchdog [...]

Here’s more about Travolta from Michael Pattinson.

During research for my new movie His Highness Hollywood, I posed undercover as a gay actor to expose the homophobia of the Church of Scientology, among others. During my research, I spoke to a prominent Los Angeles artist named Michael Pattinson, who was a Scientologist for almost 25 years and filed a lawsuit in US [...]