Okay, so you've devoured Maureen Orth's Vanity Fair cover story on Scientology's work-intensive but ill-fated attempt to pair Tom Cruise with Scientologist actress Nazanin Boniadi — a name that will launch a thousand late-night talk-show jokes. Now check out the elegant Boniadi's sexy Nespresso ad with George Clooney, an overseas commercial that should also launch a thousand late-night talk show jokes.
Once you've watched the clip below, imagine poor Ms. Boniadi scrubbing toilets and hawking copies of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics on the street as, Orth reports, part of her punishment for revealing the whole Tom Cruise-psychodrama to a fellow Scientologist frenemy. (Well, she's described as a "friend" in the Vanity Fair story, but what kind of friend turns around an narcs on someone who's obviously distressed.) I don't know about you, but thinking about the exotic Boniadi tearfully hunched over a commode makes me very sad, and I think it's only right to beseech the gallant Mr. Clooney to swoop in and rescue his commercial co-star, preferably by motorcycle.
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