TOM CRUISE - ROBBINS HAS HIGH PRAISE FOR CRUISE

I enjoyed reading Tim’s letter about Tom. Tom is a good guy. We live in a free society where it’s okay to express a viewpoint. Somehow, it became unholy to say anything about anti-depressants, anti-psychotics. The pharmaceutical companies are not gods. And, millions of kids have been put on these highly addictive brain damaging drugs with many other horrible side effects. I think it really takes a lot of guts to speak out against them. It’s very easy to look the other way and not be willing to take a peak at what is really there. But, once you look into Pandora’s Box, you just have to say something. I’m sure that was Tom’s intention and I know he has helped very many get free of the yoke of these psychiatric drugs. It took guts to speak out and I applaud Tom.

Finally, we are starting to see some rationality out of Hollywood on the Cruise matter. Well done, Robbins! Well done, ContactMusic.com As a journalist, I find it laughable that Hollywood's Media Institute asked Sumner Redstone to pontificate and thunder on about free speech. Less than two months earlier Redstone had fired Tom Cruise--and called in the Wall Street Journal as messenger boy to relay his, ahem, "rationale"—because Cruise had exercise his First Amendment rights. Media Institute feels passionately that FCC shouldn't censor some dirty words and boobage, yet studios can fire actors who speak out. The scary trend is that free speech is limited to topics popular with media and the Hollywood in-crowd. Nor did ACLU jump in with a press release to defend Cruise. I suggest a mass visit by Hollywood columnists to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance. When I last visited, the first exhibit on the tour showed that violence against minorities is routinely preceded and precipitated by media intolerance and persecution. “Oh, that couldn’t happen here!” Neither could loss of Habeas Corpus.