Not to interrupt all the scientology discussion, but Joss posted on the Serenity boards (not sure if this is more movie or Firefly, so I'm going to be one of those dirty cross-posters) [link]

Here's an odd little story:

Summer did read for Kitty in X3. I know because she called me and mentioned she was going to and did I know anything about the character (there were no 'sides' to study -- they had to get them when they came in). So the girl I turned into sort of a superhero in my movie was going to read for the character that most influenced ALL my girl-heroes, Kitty Pryde. Karmically funky. Anyhoo, she called me after and said it was very emotional and kind of like when she read for FIREFLY, she just got into a very intense groove. She started telling me about the scene she read and that's when I realized WHY it was kind of like she read for FIREFLY. 'Cause (as you may know) it was a scene I wrote for Astonishing X-Men issue #5. I assume they just didn't have sides ready and used that but this was like a karmic moebius strip, it was just too folded in on itself. In this time of odd, I turned to beer. (No I didn't. Stay in school.)

I don't know what the X-peeps are looking for -- or even if that other girl has really dropped out -- but for my money, Summer would make a wonderful Kitty. (And I don't say that lightly.) As long as it doesn't interfere with SERENITY II: RICARDO MONTALBAN'S STILL PISSED -- or, much more importantly, SERENITY III: SO VERY NUDE.

I have shared my tail. (Lord, that's what I actually typed! I mean "tale"! What will people think of me?) No tail sharing. Oh so lame.

now off to make blinis!

So Summer possibly as Kitty in X3. I'm not sure what I think about that yet.

Didn't Maggie Grace (Shannon of Lost) get the role?

She was being considered, and then she wasn't.

Cheater! You just copied and pasted you reply from one thread to the other!

(What do you mean I just did the same thing? I'll have you know I typed each of those posts by hand, through 6 feet of snow, uphill, both ways. The reason they look identical is because I take pride in my work. You young whipper-snappers and your mouse clicks and your CTRL+V. Back in my day...)

Hey! I totally typed them both out by hand!

See?

Favorite Spielberg: ET(I know. But how did I know he was gonna want to make it twenty more times?!) And Schindler. Favorite Tom Cruise: The one that didn't make me think "Garth, take your Ritalin" circa about 1990.

Hubbard totally made up everything in Dianetics and the only thing he believed about it was the adulation, power, and (most importantly of all) money he made from it. The man was a pathalogical liar from childhood, who craved the lifestyle money brought.

Read Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller for an excellent (and true) biography of Hubbard.

I want to point out that it's not actually Scientology's metaphysics I'm contemptuous of, as Thetans and alien conquerers don't strike me as terribly further divorced from reality than angels and demonically possessed herds of swine. However, the pyramid schemechurch's organization and the behaviors that it encourages toward nonbelievers are another matter entirely.

I'm with you Matt. My main beef with Scientology is that salvation should not cost a quarter to a half a million dollars.

I do hold their cosmology in contempt, but no moreso than any other cosmology I hold in contempt.

Blasphemer! Xenu the Space Clam died for your sins!!