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Police Reports Show That the Church of Scientology Hired Private Detectives to Follow Its Leader’s Father
The Church of Scientology has long been regarded as a strange and secretive organization, able to draw in high-profile celebrity members while raising complaints from many former believers. Now, with the release of Alex Gibney’s documentary “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief”, interest in the shadowy religion seems to have been renewed…
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“Inherent Vice” and Private Detectives in the Real World
The detective story is a time-honored tradition in American popular culture: with characters ranging from Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Veronica Mars and Adrian Monk, audiences have been frequently entertained by private detectives who walk a line between legality and illegality, if not disregarding it entirely. This concept continues in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s…