Biggest Asshole in Own Memoir

[Shodan]

@Mr Bus Guy

Sammy Davis Jr.

I love the guy as a performer, yes I understand the barriers he broke down, etc… I completely get that a youngster traveling with his family that placing the atmosphere is important.

But every freaking page of the thing has some version of the phrase “because we were black and so they hated us” in it. I do NOT need to have it hammered into my head that you were better dancers and singers than anyone in the world, but held back because you’re black.

I get it. Now stop and tell a good story.

You think I’m exaggerating, pick it up.

No, you aren’t.

My objection is how self-centered SDJr. comes across as. In Why Me? he apparently stops interacting with his kids because it just isn’t something he is interested in. Plus the bizarre description he gives in Yes I Can of why he postponed his marriage to May Britt so as not to interfere with the Kennedy inauguration. :rolleyes:

Regards,
Shodan

[pravnik]

@Dante

Matt Hughes, UFC fighter and douchebag extraordinaire.

Here is a summary of his autobiography (scroll down a bit). Having read it (ugh), I can tell you the summary is pretty accurate.

Oh, wow. :eek:

[Linty_Fresh]

@Icerigger

Richard Marcinko navy seal and author of “Rouge Warrior.”
I know we need bad ass military men in combat but to brag about killing and wanting to kill is too much for me. When in Vietnam he relates a story of a captured VC prisoner. The VC was hung upside down while a U.S. officer was cutting his ears off. Marcinko makes the following remarks about this, while he was not against wiring up a man’s genitals to a field telephone, he had no problem that, skinning a man alive was going too far, so what does Marcinko do, he shoots the prisoner. Hey war is war right.

He also cheats on his wife, volunteers for tours in Vietnam while he has small children to get trigger time. I know, I know he is a true Warrior but it does come off as enjoying combat way too much.

Yeah, Marcinko is an idiot. He also argued for killing civilians during the failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran, and he went to prison for defrauding the government, but only because the powers that be targeted him for being too goddamned good. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Although I have to ask where in the book did it have the story about the POW. I used to own Rogue Warrior, and it being an easy read (Marcinko is no Solzhenitsyn.), I wound up going through it a couple of times. I don’t recall that story, and I think I would have. Perhaps it was one of his other books.

My nomination would be Michael Crichton as related in his book Travels. Spoiled, self-absorbed rich kid who never grew up. He’s mean to his women, spiteful toward his family for no reason whatsoever, and not half as smart as he thinks he is. Crichton is also credulous beyond belief when it comes to psychic powers, going as far as to mock Feynman’s concept of Cargo Cult Science.

Hey, Mike, here’s a little hint: Feynman washed dingleberries out of his jockstrap that were smarter than you. Just go back to writing crappy sci-fi for the cash and divorcing your seventh wife, or whichever one you’re on now. Leave the deep stuff to scientists who work for a living.

[Horatio_Hellpop]

Chuck Berry. IIRC, he was sued by several dozen women as a result of the revelations in his autobio. Something about a toilet cam?

Tony Hendra, both for what he included and what he left out. Brr.

That girl who used to shack up with J.D. Salinger.