# Celebrities You Irrationaly Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509 "2017-06-21T03:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/41 "2017-06-21T15:20:32Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > James Mason. I’m probably missing out on a few good movies because of him, the smarmy bastard. Ouch. Jimmy PLAYED smarmy brilliantly – NORTH BY NORTHWEST; THE VERDICT. But he did other stuff good, too. Here’s a short list of what you’re missing out on, and these are just his movies that I’ve personally seen. THE SEVENTH VEIL (1945) crippled musician who terrorizes his young girl pupil ODD MAN OUT (1947) IRA organizer THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1952) Rupert JULIUS CAESAR (1953) Brutus 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) Captain Nemo BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) Suburban family man who becomes addicted to an experimental prescription drug, develops Fascist personality and delusions of godhood, and ends up trying to murder his wife and son. Bizarre Nicolas Ray movie. See it!!! I also think he’s great in NORTH BY NORTHWEST no THE VERDICT. Smarmy roles don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/42 "2017-06-21T15:24:31Z")
FTW: Mary. Tyler. Moore. Hate her voice, hate her mouth, hate her mannerisms. The second reason “Ordinary People” is my favorite movie is my getting to hate her for a reason. And Gervais. Always has that “Don’t you think I’m funny?” look on his face. He isn’t. Tyson post up-thread reminded me: Trebek. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/43 "2017-06-21T15:24:52Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Cloris Leachman. I suppose it’s not 100% irrational, because it started when I read a quote from her that I didn’t like, but I’ve long since realized she probably didn’t even say it. Now I just hate her for the sake of hating her. It’s particularly annoying because she shows up in so many things: “That new show looks interesting – oh wait, it’s got Cloris Leachman…hmmm, I might want to see that movie – NO! Not Cloris Leachman!” I have to grudgingly respect Leachman because she began her movie career with a small but key role in Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir KISS ME DEADLY, which is one of my favorite movies ever. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/44 "2017-06-21T15:25:05Z")
The entire cast of _Married with Children_, for agreeing to appear in that stupid show. I have forgiven the father, who has redeemed himself somewhat in _Modern Family_. All my other hating is rational and thus beyond the scope of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/45 "2017-06-21T15:25:59Z")
Going old school here. I hate Glen Ford. He gives off a creepy, child molester vibe to me. Maybe that originated in the film _4:10 to Yuma_, because he was a manipulative, almost Hannibal Lechter kind of character. I also hate Joan Crawford. She was supposed to be this wonderful dramatic actress, but she just reminds me of an insincere cobra. I’m completely in the Bette Davis camp when it comes to dramatic actress of the 30s (and 40s and 50s, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/46 "2017-06-21T15:28:34Z")
I’ve had a crush on James Mason since I was a young girl. I even used to do an impression of him that cracked my mom up. I will agree with **Ukulele Ike** - he was the best at _playing_ smarmy - as proven by **The Tooth**. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/47 "2017-06-21T15:35:06Z")
I would KILL to be able to do a good James Mason impression. I had a friend years ago who did a perfect Jimmy Stewart, and I would kill be to able to that, too. “This is James Stewart robbing a convenience store! This is James Stewart getting a blow job!” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/48 "2017-06-21T15:36:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’ve had a crush on James Mason since I was a young girl. I even used to do an impression of him that cracked my mom up. I will agree with **Ukulele Ike** - he was the best at _playing_ smarmy - as proven by **The Tooth**. Yeah, I liked him in _A Star Is Born_. He did a good charming/assholish alcoholic. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/49 "2017-06-21T15:39:27Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Tom Cruise. I took an instant, visceral dislike to him the first time I saw him (way before the Scientology nuttiness) in All the Right Moves in '83. Even typing his name fills me with rage. 😜 I’m fully on board with hating Tom Cruise. He was tolerable in WAR OF THE WORLDS, but only just. ALL Scientologists creep me the fuck out, especially the celebrity ones. Probably not irrational of me. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/50 "2017-06-21T16:05:00Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Going old school here. > > I hate Glen Ford. … Maybe that originated in the film _4:10 to Yuma_, … Note that AZ doesn’t do DST. It was the 3:10 to Yuma. 🙂 My dad strongly believed that Henry Fonda was a communist. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to adopt his belief, so I dislike some of Fonda’s films as a result. THAT’S irrational. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/51 "2017-06-21T16:08:45Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > All of these Anti-vaxxers > [http://jezebel.com/heres-a-fairly-comprehensive-list-of-anti-vaccination-c-1714760128](http://jezebel.com/heres-a-fairly-comprehensive-list-of-anti-vaccination-c-1714760128) > > I strongly dislike activist celebrities. > They are certainly entitled to their own private opinions. > Imho they shouldn’t use their celebrity status as a soapbox. Their opinions are no more informed than my own. > > The Anti-vaxxers are especially dangerous and are already responsible for several health outbreaks. That would seem to be a rational reason for disliking someone. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/52 "2017-06-21T16:14:10Z")
**Sandra Oh** I guess it is totally irrational. I find her untalented even though I’ve barely seen her in more than two things. And I find her odd looking, which is definitely irrational. She just bugs me. She looks…smug. Totally irrational and unfounded. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/53 "2017-06-21T16:15:39Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > James Mason. I’m probably missing out on a few good movies because of him, the smarmy bastard. I agree! There’s something about him that irritates me. Not sure what…his accent, his looks - I don’t really know. I just don’t like him! ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/54 "2017-06-21T16:21:25Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Lena Durham > Seth Rogen > Amy Schumer > Tina Fey > > AND > All of these Anti-vaxxers > [http://jezebel.com/heres-a-fairly-comprehensive-list-of-anti-vaccination-c-1714760128](http://jezebel.com/heres-a-fairly-comprehensive-list-of-anti-vaccination-c-1714760128) > > I strongly dislike activist celebrities. > They are certainly entitled to their own private opinions. > Imho they shouldn’t use their celebrity status as a soapbox. Their opinions are no more informed than my own. > > The Anti-vaxxers are especially dangerous and are already responsible for several health outbreaks. I agree wholeheartedly! Their job is to entertain. I also agree with you on disliking Amy Schumer. But I don’t find my reasoning to be irrational. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/55 "2017-06-21T16:23:28Z")
Juliette Lewis, with her enormous forehead. She was the turd in the punchbowl in one of my otherwise favorite movies Gilbert Grape, wtf did Johnny Depp see in her?? She looks like a shrunken wooden doll left out in the rain, and her acting stinks. Christina Ricci, DITTO! Winona Ryder completes the trifecta. I just hate their faces, voices, and acting. I have a list, I have a little list…going over it, though, there is no irrational reasons for my hatred, because there are perfectly GOOD rational reasons. Oh, for men: William H. Macy and John C. Reilly. They may be fine people and good actors, but I think they are so ugly it’s hard to look at them. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/56 "2017-06-21T16:23:43Z")
Since Julianne Moore and Tom Cruise are already in the mix, I’ll just get it over with and say the whole damn cast of _Magnolia._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/57 "2017-06-21T16:30:12Z")
Gemma Arterton. She’s the new Andie McDowell - generally pretty but stinks up everything she’s in with phenomenally two-dimensional acting. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/58 "2017-06-21T16:32:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Gemma Arterton. She’s the new Andie McDowell - generally pretty but stinks up everything she’s in with phenomenally two-dimensional acting. Why? WHY did you hafta go and mention Andie McDowell? Now I have to get in the fish tank and sing! ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/59 "2017-06-21T16:34:18Z")
Oliver Sacks is whom I loathe. I went to a talk by him in which a young intelligent undergraduate introduced him (he was an invited speaker) and he quipped, “Now I know I’ve seen it all… a Russian Jew named Mary”. I mean, seriously. He then proceeded to put up some of the most yellowed wrinkly transparencies known to man. His either having every freaking imaginable mental disorder (faceblindness, etc.) or knowing some obscure NYC resident who conveniently does is just too much to take. Plus his belief that his childhood and adolescent curiosity was somehow greater than everybody elses. I really can’t stand the man and I had to stop listening to Radiolab (and nearly all of NPR) due to there obsession with “His Quirkiness”. Oh and he’s a poor author and an even worse scientist. I think Dr. Oz is a saint of truth compared to dr. sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509/60 "2017-06-21T16:51:59Z")
Jonah Hill - Maybe not irrational but just not my taste. His propensity for dick-ish characters has to say something about him personally. But a lot of it isn’t his fault, it’s more of a “Why does he have a career?” thing. People keep hiring him. Those are the people I dislike. Lena Dunham - What can be said about her that hasn’t already been said? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-irrationaly-hate/789509.md?page=4)