The October 2012 issue of Vanity Fair.

Tom Cruise's vigilant lawyer Bert Fields has issued a statement on Maureen Orth's not-yet-released piece about the Church of Scientology's long-term "audition process" that yielded bride Katie Holmes.

Vanity Fair's story is essentially a rehash of tired old lies previously run in the supermarket tabloids, quoting the same bogus 'sources.' It's long, boring and false.

We'll reserve judgment on the media-criticism aspect of Mr. Fields's statement until we read the piece--one that Scientology apostate Paul Haggis has said is true. But it's interesting that no mention of legal action is made here; Tom Cruise has historically been a litigious star, filing a $100 million lawsuit against a gay porn star who claimed to have dated the Mission: Impossible actor.