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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Vive Le France!

Posted by on July 13 at 8:00 AM

On Monday, the municipal assembly of Paris approved a resolution “never to welcome Tom Cruise,” preemptively rescinding offers of honorary citizenship for the embattled actor.

The reason for the diss has nothing to with Cruise’s soiling of the city’s most beloved landmark for his latest marriage proposal, and everything to do with his status as a militant Scientologist.

Those French, they can make even religious intolerance look stylish.