Cruise threatens boycott over South Park 

Tom Cruise has threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film, unless a sister cable TV network pulls a South Park rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources say.

The show (the South Park episode titled Trapped in the Closet), which was first aired last November, was set to be repeated on Wednesday night on Paramount cable channel Comedy Central. Paramount, owned by US media giant Viacom, is the studio behind the latest 'Mission Impossible' sequel.

Two industry sources familiar with the situation told Reuters Comedy Central pulled the Trapped in the Closet episode from its South Park rerun rotation after Cruise threatened to cease promotion of his upcoming Paramount film, Mission: Impossible III.

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大明星汤姆•克鲁斯日前通知派拉蒙公司，如果他们不撤下旗下的喜剧中心电视台即将播出的一集《南方公园》，他就拒绝为派拉蒙公司投资、由他主演的新片《碟中谍３》做宣传。《南方公园》是美国最红的成人动画片，以无厘头恶搞一切事物出名，这次惹出麻烦的一集是拿一个小宗教团体“科学论派”开涮。不幸的是，这个团体信徒虽然不多，偏偏包括汤姆•克鲁斯这位“大腕”。

词汇：
boycott: vt. 联合抵制
upcoming: adj. 即将来临的
lampoon: vt 讽刺
episode: n. 一段情节
sequel: n. 续篇
cease: vt. 停止