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Personal life
One of his daughters is Erin Brodie, who found some fame on television in 2003, while another daughter is married to former NFL quarterback Chris Chandler.
For many years Brodie was affiliated with the Church of Scientology and was one of their leading celebrity spokespersons. His experience with them soured during a Sea Org power struggle in which several of Brodie's friends were expelled and/or harassed, and Brodie resigned in solidarity with them. Said Brodie, "There were many in the church I felt were treated unfairly".[2] Prior to this, Brodie was one of the first 25 Scientologists to achieve the level of OTVII in the church.
USA Gangster Government
http://wn.com/USA_Gangster_Government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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http://www.dcdave.com/article5/080406.htm
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It is now news in Australia that new evidence has turned up that suggests that California congressman Sonny Bono was murdered and did not die in a skiing accident as we have been told repeatedly. Although he was an American whose job was to represent Americans, as far as the mainstream United States press is concerned this news is unworthy of the attention of the people of the United States. This is the same American press, of course, that never breathed the slightest hint of suspicion that there might have been foul play involved when the experienced skier Bono was reported to have slammed into a tree at the Heavenly Ski resort in Nevada on January 5, 1998. There were no witnesses, the autopsy report was not released to the public, and Bono had shown himself to be something of a thorn in the side of official Washington, which is probably all the more reason for the lapdogs who call themselves journalists to have dummied up.
For Americans, the new revelations can be found buried away--and ignored by "respectable people"--in the U.S. supermarket tabloid, Globe, of April 14, which hit the news racks on April 4. They were said to have been gathered by investigator Bob Fletcher, 66, who, according to Globe, was connected to the case even before Bono died:
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/2133
by Sidney Blumenthal | October 23, 2006 - 10:12am
As the fortunes of the Republican Party in the Congress collapsed, I found myself in the middle of a book tour in Palm Springs, California. Promenading down Palm Canyon Drive, I stopped by the larger than life statute of a smiling mustachioed man with an open collar sitting on the edge of a fountain in the center of town.
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/2133
How Sonny Bono Predicted the Downfall of the GOP Congress
Excerpt:by Sidney Blumenthal | October 23, 2006 - 10:12am
As the fortunes of the Republican Party in the Congress collapsed, I found myself in the middle of a book tour in Palm Springs, California. Promenading down Palm Canyon Drive, I stopped by the larger than life statute of a smiling mustachioed man with an open collar sitting on the edge of a fountain in the center of town.
Sonny Bono, singer, songwriter and mayor, was perhaps the most unlikely person elected in the self-proclaimed Republican "revolution" of 1994.
To mark his rise to power, the new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, "held a mad celebration featuring people dressed as the cartoon Power Rangers and Rush Limbaugh," as I write in "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime." "One new Republican member, Sonny Bono, who had fallen from grace as a celebrity, warned Gingrich to guard against hubris."
Bono was the only one at the beginning to warn Gingrich that his arrogance and unchecked will to power would be his undoing. "You're a celebrity now," Bono said. "The rules are different for celebrities. I know it. I've been there. I've been a celebrity. I used to be a bigger celebrity. But let me tell you, you're not being handled right. This is not political news coverage. This is celebrity status. You need handlers. You need to understand what you're doing."
Bono saw the dramatic events unfold before him through the prism of his own dimmed star. He had had it all with Cher and lost it, staging a recovery in the Palm Springs oasis as a politician, which to him was a secondary level of celebrity. Yes, the beat went on, but he had heard it before and louder. That was the insight he imparted to the new Speaker that was instantly ignored.
Gingrich gloried in his rhetoric about "the revolution." He had little use for the experience of the older and wiser song-and-dance man. Instead Gingrich, a failed professor, described himself as a world-historical figure, leader of a universal transformation. It was befitting that one of his closest advisers, the lobbyist Grover Norquist, co-author of Gingrich's political program, the Contract with America, hung a picture of Lenin on his wall. Gingrich was a self-styled Republican Lenin "determined to annihilate his enemies and extirpate the 'counterculture,' as I write in my column in Salon and The Guardian.
This Republican Lenin was followed by the Republican Stalin, "the ruthless consolidator and centralizer," Tom DeLay, the Sugar Land, Texas exterminator. After Gingrich's demise, DeLay put into place his puppet as Speaker, Dennis Hastert, the former small-town Illinois wrestling coach. When DeLay was indicted for corrupt campaign practices and resigned, the "revolution" was left in Hastert's ham-fisted hands. Just as he had tried to cover-up DeLay's ethical transgressions, he and his aides were implicated in the cover-up of Rep. Mark Foley's sexual preying on teenaged pages. Hastert, the bewildered party boss, "transmuted from omnipotent Leonid Brezhnev into ghostly Konstantin Chernenko, presiding over the final decrepit stage."
If only the Republicans had taken Sonny Bono's advice, gleaned from Hollywood, they might not resemble the Soviet Union today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono
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He became a Scientologist, partly because of the influence of Mimi Rogers, but stated that he was a Roman Catholic on all official documents, campaign materials, web sites, etc. Mary Bono also took Scientology courses.[10]
http://popular.ebay.com/misc-k-m/mimi-rogers.htm
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To mark his rise to power, the new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, "held a mad celebration featuring people dressed as the cartoon Power Rangers and Rush Limbaugh," as I write in "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime." "One new Republican member, Sonny Bono, who had fallen from grace as a celebrity, warned Gingrich to guard against hubris."
Bono was the only one at the beginning to warn Gingrich that his arrogance and unchecked will to power would be his undoing. "You're a celebrity now," Bono said. "The rules are different for celebrities. I know it. I've been there. I've been a celebrity. I used to be a bigger celebrity. But let me tell you, you're not being handled right. This is not political news coverage. This is celebrity status. You need handlers. You need to understand what you're doing."
Bono saw the dramatic events unfold before him through the prism of his own dimmed star. He had had it all with Cher and lost it, staging a recovery in the Palm Springs oasis as a politician, which to him was a secondary level of celebrity. Yes, the beat went on, but he had heard it before and louder. That was the insight he imparted to the new Speaker that was instantly ignored.
Gingrich gloried in his rhetoric about "the revolution." He had little use for the experience of the older and wiser song-and-dance man. Instead Gingrich, a failed professor, described himself as a world-historical figure, leader of a universal transformation. It was befitting that one of his closest advisers, the lobbyist Grover Norquist, co-author of Gingrich's political program, the Contract with America, hung a picture of Lenin on his wall. Gingrich was a self-styled Republican Lenin "determined to annihilate his enemies and extirpate the 'counterculture,' as I write in my column in Salon and The Guardian.
This Republican Lenin was followed by the Republican Stalin, "the ruthless consolidator and centralizer," Tom DeLay, the Sugar Land, Texas exterminator. After Gingrich's demise, DeLay put into place his puppet as Speaker, Dennis Hastert, the former small-town Illinois wrestling coach. When DeLay was indicted for corrupt campaign practices and resigned, the "revolution" was left in Hastert's ham-fisted hands. Just as he had tried to cover-up DeLay's ethical transgressions, he and his aides were implicated in the cover-up of Rep. Mark Foley's sexual preying on teenaged pages. Hastert, the bewildered party boss, "transmuted from omnipotent Leonid Brezhnev into ghostly Konstantin Chernenko, presiding over the final decrepit stage."
If only the Republicans had taken Sonny Bono's advice, gleaned from Hollywood, they might not resemble the Soviet Union today.
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He became a Scientologist, partly because of the influence of Mimi Rogers, but stated that he was a Roman Catholic on all official documents, campaign materials, web sites, etc. Mary Bono also took Scientology courses.[10]
http://popular.ebay.com/misc-k-m/mimi-rogers.htm
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Mimi Rogers was born on January 27, 1956 to a Christian mother and a Jewish father who was a Holocaust survivor. Rogers is an American actress as well as a competitive poker player. Mimi Rogers is known for her roles in the nude. In 'Full Body Massage', a 1995 film, Rogers was completely nude for almost the whole 93 minutes of the movie. She also did a nude scene for 'The Door in the Floor' at the age of 49 and a nude pictorial for Playboy magazine in 1993. Rogers had got her biggest break after she starred opposite Tom Berenger in 'Someone to Watch Over Me' in 1987. Rogers pre-dominantly features in independent films. Her Hollywood ventures include 'Lost in Space'; she also featured in the hit television series 'The X-Files'. In 1997, she featured as Elizabeth Hurley's mother in 'Austin Powers: International Man of Msytery'. Rogers was member of the Church of Scientology. She was first married to Jim Rogers and later to Tom Cruise. However, her marriage with Tom Cruise lasted just three years. She has been involved with Chris Ciaffa and they have two kids together, Lucy and Charles. She is said to have introduced many in Hollywood to Scientology, including Tom Cruise, Sonny Bono and John Brodie. Rogers has played high stakes poker as a teenager. Rogers is also in the board of directors of the World Poker Tour.
http://www.nndb.com/people/203/000024131/
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Mimi Rogers
AKA Miriam Spickler
Born: 27-Jan-1956
Birthplace: Coral Gables, FL
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Someone To Watch Over Me
Something of a child prodigy, Rogers skipped several grades and graduated from high school at the age of 14. Instead of going to college, she spent the rest of her teen years volunteering with charity groups. She also accompanied her father, an accomplished card sharp, on trips to Tahoe, where she illegally (being underaged) played plenty of poker and blackjack. After dabbling with acting "as a hobby," she pursued it as a career, and in 1981 appeared in several episodes of Hill Street Blues. Two years later she had a supporting role in the quickly-canceled carny adventure show The Rousters. The next season she played a past-her-prime model on Lloyd Bridges's short-lived prime time soap opera Paper Dolls.
Her role as Michael Keaton's longsuffering girlfriend in Gung Ho attracted Rogers minor notice, and she followed that with her most acclaimed movie, Someone To Watch Over Me, in 1987. Her other noteworthy films include Trees Lounge, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and The Door in the Floor. In the late 1990s she played the recurring role of Agent Diana Fowley on The X-Files. Her many acting embarrassments include Lost in Space, The Geena Davis Show, and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.
She is a member of the Church of Scientology, and met her first husband when he was her Scientology counselor. After that marriage ended, she brought Tom Cruise into the cult when they married in 1987. After their 1990 divorce, Rogers starred in The Rapture, as a bar-hopping slut who searched for salvation while the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse came galloping toward the end times.
In 1998, Rogers sued The Home Shopping Network for $10 million, claiming the TV retailers had fed false information to the National Enquirer, leading the newspaper to report that Rogers had thrown a temper tantrum on the set, "cursed like a sailor", and trashed a backstage room when she appeared on HSN to promote her line of exercise equipment. Rogers later dropped the suit, when a federal district court ruled in a preliminary hearing that the Enquirer's account was "largely true."
Father: Philip J. Spickler (Scientology minister, civil engineer)
Husband: Jim Rogers (Scientology counselor, m. 1977, div. 1980)
Husband: Tom Cruise (b. 3-Jul-1962, m. 9-May-1987, div. 1990)
Boyfriend: Chris Chiaffa (b. 1963, cohabiting since 1990)
Son: Charlie Rogers-Chiaffa (b. 30-Jul-2001, 8 lbs 10 oz, with Chris Chiaffa)
Daughter: Lucy Julia Rogers-Ciaffa (b. 20-Nov-1995, with Chris Chiaffa)
Boyfriend: Ed Marinaro
Boyfriend: Tom Selleck
Boyfriend: Bobby Shriver
http://www.nndb.com/people/965/000110635/
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Bobby Shriver
AKA Robert Sargent Shriver III
Born: 28-Apr-1954
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician, Relative
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mayor of Santa Monica
Father: Sargent Shriver (b. 1915, d. 2011)
Mother: Eunice Kennedy Shriver (b. 1921, d. 2009)
Sister: Maria Shriver (b. 1955)
Brother: Timothy (b. 1959)
Brother: Mark Kennedy Shriver (b. 1964)
Brother: Anthony (b. 1965)
Wife: Malissa Feruzzi
Girlfriend: Mimi Rogers (ex)
University: BA, Yale University
Law School: JD, Yale Law School
Mayor of Santa Monica, CA (2010-)
California State Official Chair, State Park and Recreation Commission (2003-08)
Kennedy Family
The Chicago Daily News
Special Olympics
Scroll and Key
Risk Factors: Yoga
SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY
Baltimore Orioles Minority Owner (1989-93)
Official Website:
http://www.bobbyshriver.com/
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http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/bios/bobby_shrivers
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Over the last 10 years, Bobby Shriver has co-founded three organizations to help eliminate the financial and health emergencies threatening the people of Africa. Those organizations are DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), ONE.ORG and (PRODUCT) RED. In addition, Bobby is working locally, currently serving his second term as City Councilman of Santa Monica.
Robert Sargent Shriver III was born on April 28, 1954, in Chicago. He is the oldest child of the late R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., who started the Peace Corps and created President Johnson's War on Poverty programs (e.g., Head Start, The Job Corps) and the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576371591562510516.html?mod=googlenews_wsj (notice this is the Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch) ...cal
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OPINION
JUNE 9, 2011
There are roughly 107,000 homeless veterans in America. Many of them are chronically condemned to wander our streets because the trauma they suffered serving our country has left them profoundly brain-damaged or disabled with terrible psychiatric conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. These wounds of war are physically invisible, but they are no less life-threatening.
When military service renders our returning soldiers unable to resume their civilian lives—by holding down ...
Mimi Rogers -Chris Ciaffa video
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/unstoppable/premiere-mimi-rogers-christopher-ciaffa
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018687/bio
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“Tom was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. And he thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument. … It became obvious we had to split." As the person who first introduced Cruise to the Scientology, Rogers reportedly also led others to the church, including Sonny Bono and football player John Brodie, for whom she served as auditor.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/14/DD44367.DTL
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http://www.nndb.com/people/203/000024131/
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Mimi Rogers
AKA Miriam Spickler Born: 27-Jan-1956
Birthplace: Coral Gables, FL
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Someone To Watch Over Me
Something of a child prodigy, Rogers skipped several grades and graduated from high school at the age of 14. Instead of going to college, she spent the rest of her teen years volunteering with charity groups. She also accompanied her father, an accomplished card sharp, on trips to Tahoe, where she illegally (being underaged) played plenty of poker and blackjack. After dabbling with acting "as a hobby," she pursued it as a career, and in 1981 appeared in several episodes of Hill Street Blues. Two years later she had a supporting role in the quickly-canceled carny adventure show The Rousters. The next season she played a past-her-prime model on Lloyd Bridges's short-lived prime time soap opera Paper Dolls.
Her role as Michael Keaton's longsuffering girlfriend in Gung Ho attracted Rogers minor notice, and she followed that with her most acclaimed movie, Someone To Watch Over Me, in 1987. Her other noteworthy films include Trees Lounge, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and The Door in the Floor. In the late 1990s she played the recurring role of Agent Diana Fowley on The X-Files. Her many acting embarrassments include Lost in Space, The Geena Davis Show, and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.
She is a member of the Church of Scientology, and met her first husband when he was her Scientology counselor. After that marriage ended, she brought Tom Cruise into the cult when they married in 1987. After their 1990 divorce, Rogers starred in The Rapture, as a bar-hopping slut who searched for salvation while the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse came galloping toward the end times.
In 1998, Rogers sued The Home Shopping Network for $10 million, claiming the TV retailers had fed false information to the National Enquirer, leading the newspaper to report that Rogers had thrown a temper tantrum on the set, "cursed like a sailor", and trashed a backstage room when she appeared on HSN to promote her line of exercise equipment. Rogers later dropped the suit, when a federal district court ruled in a preliminary hearing that the Enquirer's account was "largely true."
Father: Philip J. Spickler (Scientology minister, civil engineer)
Husband: Jim Rogers (Scientology counselor, m. 1977, div. 1980)
Husband: Tom Cruise (b. 3-Jul-1962, m. 9-May-1987, div. 1990)
Boyfriend: Chris Chiaffa (b. 1963, cohabiting since 1990)
Son: Charlie Rogers-Chiaffa (b. 30-Jul-2001, 8 lbs 10 oz, with Chris Chiaffa)
Daughter: Lucy Julia Rogers-Ciaffa (b. 20-Nov-1995, with Chris Chiaffa)
Boyfriend: Ed Marinaro
Boyfriend: Tom Selleck
Boyfriend: Bobby Shriver
http://www.nndb.com/people/965/000110635/
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Bobby Shriver
AKA Robert Sargent Shriver III
Born: 28-Apr-1954
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician, Relative
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mayor of Santa Monica
Father: Sargent Shriver (b. 1915, d. 2011)
Mother: Eunice Kennedy Shriver (b. 1921, d. 2009)
Sister: Maria Shriver (b. 1955)
Brother: Timothy (b. 1959)
Brother: Mark Kennedy Shriver (b. 1964)
Brother: Anthony (b. 1965)
Wife: Malissa Feruzzi
Girlfriend: Mimi Rogers (ex)
University: BA, Yale University
Law School: JD, Yale Law School
Mayor of Santa Monica, CA (2010-)
California State Official Chair, State Park and Recreation Commission (2003-08)
Kennedy Family
The Chicago Daily News
Special Olympics
Scroll and Key
Risk Factors: Yoga
SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY
Baltimore Orioles Minority Owner (1989-93)
Official Website:
http://www.bobbyshriver.com/
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http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/bios/bobby_shrivers
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Bobby Shriver
Co-Founder of A Very Special Christmas
Over the last 10 years, Bobby Shriver has co-founded three organizations to help eliminate the financial and health emergencies threatening the people of Africa. Those organizations are DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), ONE.ORG and (PRODUCT) RED. In addition, Bobby is working locally, currently serving his second term as City Councilman of Santa Monica.
Robert Sargent Shriver III was born on April 28, 1954, in Chicago. He is the oldest child of the late R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., who started the Peace Corps and created President Johnson's War on Poverty programs (e.g., Head Start, The Job Corps) and the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576371591562510516.html?mod=googlenews_wsj (notice this is the Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch) ...cal
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Why Wounded Warriors Sleep in Dumpsters
The government has failed homeless vets suffering from psychological trauma. That's why we're suing the Department of Veterans Affairs.
BY LAURENCE TRIBE AND BOBBY SHRIVER
A group of desperate homeless veterans became plaintiffs yesterday in a suit, Valentini v. Shinseki, filed in U.S. district court against the federal officials responsible for their plight.There are roughly 107,000 homeless veterans in America. Many of them are chronically condemned to wander our streets because the trauma they suffered serving our country has left them profoundly brain-damaged or disabled with terrible psychiatric conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. These wounds of war are physically invisible, but they are no less life-threatening.
When military service renders our returning soldiers unable to resume their civilian lives—by holding down ...
Mimi Rogers -Chris Ciaffa video
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/unstoppable/premiere-mimi-rogers-christopher-ciaffa
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018687/bio
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“Tom was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. And he thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument. … It became obvious we had to split." As the person who first introduced Cruise to the Scientology, Rogers reportedly also led others to the church, including Sonny Bono and football player John Brodie, for whom she served as auditor.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/14/DD44367.DTL
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