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Cruise hits back at new Scientology book

Bert Fields, longtime lawyer for Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology, doesn’t think much of the new book “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” by Pulitzer Prize-winning Lawrence Wright. The Knopf book, excerpted in the Hollywood Reporter, states that church leader David Miscavige viewed Nicole Kidman as “a gold digger who was faking Scientology,” whom the church branded a “suppressive person.” It also claims Kidman happily conducted the search for her successor, who turned out to be Katie Holmes. But Fields told Page Six yesterday: “The chapter about Tom is based on provable lies by a bunch of bitter ex-Scientologists. The book itself is boring.”