# Actors you hate because of their personal lives **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320 "2016-03-27T08:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/21 "2016-03-27T22:01:02Z")
I find Martin Riggs’ (Mel Gibson’s) homophobia in the first _Lethal Weapon_ movie to be rather off-putting. And I _like_ those movies! But he did it twice! Gibson’s personal life doesn’t bother me much, though. My sister, on the other hand, can’t listen to anything by Marvin Gaye because she disapproves of his personal life. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/22 "2016-03-27T22:23:42Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > My sister, on the other hand, can’t listen to anything by Marvin Gaye because she disapproves of his personal life. Your sister should lay off. Gaye hasn’t done anything since 1984. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/23 "2016-03-27T22:29:03Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > She seems completely level-headed and sane to me in that interview. > > You dislike him because he suffered from addiction? I am not seeing off-putting weirdness in that interview either. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/24 "2016-03-27T22:33:49Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Not an actor, but I heard Carl Sagan was a notorious asshole in restaurants, constantly sending back meals, never tipping, and giving servers long lectures (YAY!) Lord help you if the apple pie was not just as crumbly as he liked…😃 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/25 "2016-03-27T22:34:01Z")
The guy that played **Eddie** in _Frasier_. From what I hear, in his private life, he was a real animal. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/26 "2016-03-27T22:51:33Z")
“This Is Spinal Tap” was one of my favorite movies (the other is “Babette’s Feast”) and I have not been able to watch it since Tony Hendra’s daughter made very credible accusations that he molested her. He played their manager, Ian Faith. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/27 "2016-03-27T22:56:17Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Lindsey Lohan, who thankfully has about disappeared. Yet every so often her picture pops up on gossip sites: orange spray tan, bushel baskets of hair extensions, a gorgeous real in-your-face fur coat, at some event where you wonder how and why she ever got in. Strolling along the beach at some exotic resort, Hawaii or Nice or Bora Bora. I wonder how she affords it and why she isn’t working at a convenience store in Fresno (just to be able to afford 3 packs of cigarettes a day) by now. I’ve heard that she’s done some Japanese commercials. Those generally pay a LOT of money. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/28 "2016-03-27T23:24:48Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > None. I watch actors for entertainment - anything that happens outside of that has no bearing on the work. This, exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/29 "2016-03-28T00:47:13Z")
You know, I never really held Robin Williams or Robert DeNiro responsible for John Belushi’s death, nor Jack Nicholson for enabling Roman Polanski. They all reasonably (I assume) believed they were dealing with men who knew and understood their boundaries. Woody Allen, on the other hand, is getting harder to defend and harder to watch. And I haven’t been able to watch Charlie Sheen for years now. Mayim Bialik is an odd case. A PhD who doesn’t vaccinate her children (I’m not sure how absolute she is on this, if she just avoids a specific vaccine or what) but doesn’t advise anybody else on the subject one way or the other. I really like her on BBT, but if I had kids, a play date would be out of the question. Whoopi Goldberg creeps me out every time I find out anything new about her personal life. Great stand-up, though! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/30 "2016-03-28T00:57:36Z")
Michael Landon. Along with woody allen and bill cosby. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/31 "2016-03-28T01:02:51Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > She seems completely level-headed and sane to me in that interview. Children with two parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with one parent. Children with married parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with unmarried parents. Presumably, she is rich enough to hire nannies to fill the gap, but the lack of a spouse does not improve the odds for the offspring. > [@Acsenray](#): > > You dislike him because he suffered from addiction? When I was a kid, the dealers used to recruit by giving away the first sample for free. If you got hooked in my town, it was because, at some point in your life, you voluntarily chose to indulge. When you make that choice, the consequences are your responsibility. I don’t hate him, and I will acknowledge that he was one of the best actors of his generation. But he was a junkie. They die. Life goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/32 "2016-03-28T01:03:38Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > “This Is Spinal Tap” was one of my favorite movies (the other is “Babette’s Feast”) and I have not been able to watch it since Tony Hendra’s daughter made very credible accusations that he molested her. He played their manager, Ian Faith. **Nearwildheaven** , is he the pudgy, fair-haired guy who says, “Don’t worry about your gig being cancelled in Boston. It’s not a big college town” ? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/33 "2016-03-28T01:04:02Z")
[Jenna Elfman.](http://www.fashionandwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Short-Hairstyles-Yellow.jpg) I think it’s because I find her extremely attractive but can’t reconcile that with being a Scientologist. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/34 "2016-03-28T01:29:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Children with two parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with one parent. Children with married parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with unmarried parents. Presumably, she is rich enough to hire nannies to fill the gap, but the lack of a spouse does not improve the odds for the offspring. > > When I was a kid, the dealers used to recruit by giving away the first sample for free. If you got hooked in my town, it was because, at some point in your life, you voluntarily chose to indulge. When you make that choice, the consequences are your responsibility. This thread is asking whether someone has behaved so badly that the work he or she has left behind can’t be enjoyed any more. Whether or not he was “responsible” for something that eventually led to his death an entire lifetime later seems really to go way beyond the question. How and why people become addicts and what they become addicted to is far from well understood, and is likely to be something that many of us avoid merely by kick of the draw, or timing, or something else we don’t have full control over. > [@](#): > > I don’t hate him, and I will acknowledge that he was one of the best actors of his generation. But he was a junkie. They die. Life goes on. I don’t know exactly what this is supposed to mean. That he won’t be missed? That he shouldn’t be missed? By his family or friends or colleagues or admirers of his work who wished to see what he would do next? He was miscarried. Fetuses die. Life goes on. He had heart trouble. They die. Life goes on. She had breast cancer. They die. Life goes on. He drove a car. Car accidents kill. Life goes on. He left his house. They die. Life goes on. He was syphilitic. They die. Life goes on. We are human. We die. Life goes on. Does that mean that we can leave nothing of value behind? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/35 "2016-03-28T01:35:49Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Children with two parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with one parent. Children with married parents tend to have lower mortality rates than children with unmarried parents. Presumably, she is rich enough to hire nannies to fill the gap, but the lack of a spouse does not improve the odds for the offspring. This is a misuse of statistics. Since the dawn of human civilization, there have been children raised by one biological parent, or a combination of a biological parent and servants or other members of the community. There’s nothing rare or unusual or novel or weird about this. The key difference has always been the availability of material and emotional resources to nourish a life, not some kind of accounting if the ideal family arrangement. We have no reason to believe from that interview that either is lacking. What makes it weird and off putting to make decisions for one’s own family, and then to tell the public that the details are none of their business? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/36 "2016-03-28T01:35:59Z")
Tony Curtis (for doing drugs with his daughter) and John Phillips (for–Oh my God!). “The disease of addiction” only excuses so much. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/37 "2016-03-28T01:49:13Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Not an actor, but I heard Carl Sagan was a notorious asshole in restaurants, constantly sending back meals, never tipping, and giving servers long lectures (YAY!), so this colours my cosmic view of him. > > ( I have a hard time believing this. I’ve only ever heard that Carl Sagan is nothing less than a kind man. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/38 "2016-03-28T01:53:22Z")
Not an actor but Kanye West. He should just get run over by a bus. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/39 "2016-03-28T01:54:39Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > When I was a kid, the dealers used to recruit by giving away the first sample for free. Is that actually true? I mean, I’ve always heard it, but no one has ever offered me free drugs in hopes that I’d get instantly addicted on the first try and then exclusively buy from them. I think it’s just something we were taught in DARE so that we would avoid dealers. “Stay away from those kinds of people, they’ll give you free drugs and then you’ll be hooked for life”. I’ve known plenty of dealers in my life, never gotten any free drugs. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/40 "2016-03-28T02:07:25Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is that actually true? I mean, I’ve always heard it, but no one has ever offered me free drugs in hopes that I’d get instantly addicted on the first try and then exclusively buy from them. > > I think it’s just something we were taught in DARE so that we would avoid dealers. “Stay away from those kinds of people, they’ll give you free drugs and then you’ll be hooked for life”. I’ve known plenty of dealers in my life, never gotten any free drugs. ☹ I dunno, did you already look like a junkie? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320.md?page=3)