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Tom Cruise has to be the most generous person to ever touch an e-meter, clear a body thetan, or lose his breath after reading the prose of Dianetics. Not content to share the wonders of Scientology with his crew on War of the Worlds (as interpreted through the fingertips of model-quality masseuses), Cruise just keeps on giving. This time, it's entertainment journalists that have experienced his Hubbardy largesse:

In an attempt to win them over, he recently dispatched plaques wrapped in gold paper to a number of the most influential LA correspondents, with the 12 rules of Scientology on them.

"This was eccentric, to say the least," says one. "But what annoyed people more was the note that he enclosed, saying he'd made a donation to Scientology in our names."

As one reader pointed out, lucky charity recipients may find their names wind up on Scientology websites as donors, their names forever linked with the COS in the eyes of Google. More dismaying, however, is how tacky it is for Cruise to give beloved journalists the same thing he gave everyone for Christmas. Tsk, tsk. Couldn't he at least have had the rules etched into a plaster bust of John Travolta this time?