Sunday, April 23, 2006

L. Ron Hubbard died where?

Hmmm...seems like L. Ron suffered a catastrophic stroke on a secluded ranch near Big Sur, California back in January 1986. A week later he died.

Ironic thing is,

Scientology attorneys arrived to recover his body, which they sought to have cremated immediately. They were blocked by a county coroner, who, according to Scientology critics, did an autopsy that revealed high levels of a psychiatric drug.

That would seem like an embarrassment given the church's hostility to such medications (witness Cruise's recent feud with Brooke Shields), but it didn't stop the church from summoning thousands of followers to the Hollywood Palladium days after Hubbard's death. [Slate]

First off, tsk, tsk, tsk... L. Ron's body was found to be full of some psychiatric drug. Wonder what TC has to say about that?

And secondly, L. Ron's last residence was Big Sur. Sur = Suri? How apropos.

2 comments:

Nicole said...

eeeeks, good scoop, melissa! l. ron was plagued by pyschiatric ailments his entire life... many believe dinanetics to be the ramblings of a crazy person. so go figure why all these rich fucks in hollywood are buying into his crazy talk.

the big sur connection... eerie.

Anonymous said...

Good use of the word "apropos" :)

Johnny