Everything is so spun these days by agents, managers, publicists, stylists, blah blah. Does anyone have any awesome stories involving celebrities that have happened to them? I’m ready to hear about the outrageousness and assholism that I know these ego inflated people are so capable of
Yes, what this world doesn’t have enough of is celebrity gossip.
I’ve met a fair number of celebrities (many of them attended an Off-Broadway show that I worked for), and I’m almost sorry to report that I have no juicy dirt on any of them. Some were friendlier than others, but all behaved perfectly normally. For the record, here are the ones I can remember off the top of my head:
Jello Biafra (15 years ago)
David Bowie
Jimmy Fallon
Billy Boyd
Dominic Monaghan
Evangeline Lilly
Ian Somerhalder
Spike Lee
Giorgio Armani
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
David Copperfield
Natalie Maines
Peter Dinklage
Angelina Jolie
Shakira
Joan Rivers
Sorry I can’t help. Though I’d be happy to share unremarkable anecdotes about any of the above, should you be interested.
No kidding. However, since this story is anonymous and really doesn’t make the celebrity look bad, I’ll post a link to this tale I told last week.
I was just interested in getting through this insane wall of PR these people have around them. If you don’t like the question, don’t respond to it.
Oh yeah, this’ll shut 'im up.
I’m afraid the best I have is that Sean Young is a pompous jerk (or at least she was when I interviewed her ten years ago) and Lina Basquette was a racist jerk (or at least she was when I interviewed her 15 years ago)
Oh lord, now you’ve done it. Here comes the doll with a fork through its eye…
Not that I care an inkling for gossip, but I am curious as to how he came off in person.
If it is total brain candy and probably 100% crap you are looking for, with a vicious streak to it, I highly recommend the superficial for unadulterated gossip.
haha I’m not certain why everyone is so up in arms about this thread. I mean cafe society has a thread up about american idol like clockwork. In my overly intellectualized life at school I like to sometimes just be ridiculous.
Up in arms? Are you new here? lol.
The Superficial is good, and http://www.bitterwaitress.com/gossip/articles.html?category_id=3 is an excellent site.
Because it’s cool to read the name of a thread, deem it worthless and then come in and say so.
reads name of thread
What a worthless thread.
Here’s an earlier thread for your pleasure. I especially recommend Sampiro’s Edward Furlong post (#12 on the page).
I brought him to my college to speak in 1991. I picked him up from the airport the evening before he spoke and hung out with him until the wee hours of the next morning. Went home for a couple hours of sleep, then picked him up later in the morning to take him to the airport.
Basically he came off as abrasive. Not particularly friendly. But I am from Nebraska (and still lived there at the time), so someone more used to big-city attitude would probably not have been as put off. The more time I spent with him, the more I realized he wasn’t a mean or rude person, just a no-bullshit, to-the-point kind of guy. He had a lot of stories, and the more Guinness he drank, the more he told. That was super cool. And, for the record, no groupies or excess. Just a lot of talk (mostly between him and a friend of mine. I was there, but not really included in the conversation).
I can’t say I was (or am) entirely objective. He had been my idol for years, so I was kind of a internal basket case (omigodomigodomigoditsreallyhim!). But he did nice things like thanking me in front of the sold-out crowd, giving me a personally autographed record, and thanking me again when he left, even though he bitched a lot about my being late to pick him up (I wasn’t really, but there was some confusion when I arrived at the house to get him).
A few months later, I ordered merchandise from Alternative Tentacles, and he wrote “Hi, Ginger” on the package. I was over the moon about that for years.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to add Stephen Colbert to the list. I still haven’t erased his voice mail on my cell phone, even though it was over a year ago.
I still have his number in my phone, too, from when I interviewed him. Why did he call you?
That’s very cool about Jello.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good story vaderspal. Just one last follow up, if I may?
In conversation he go by Jello or Eric?
I was invited on to one of Derren Brown’s TV shows. It was a special and took just over three hours to film, in one continuous take.
Derren delivered all his lines first time, did 3 excellent illusions* and then was told filming was finished and his car was ready.
Instead of just leaving, he came over to the participants, thanked us for our patience, signed autographs and left a fine impression. 
*I worked out how he did one trick (which he confirmed afterwards, with a nice note saying he hoped we didn’t mind being fooled 
), know how he must have done another (but I still didn’t see him do the switch 
), and have no idea how he did the third. 
I’ve invited Garry Kasparov to my School 3 times.
He gave a superb chess display, next trained a bunch of rapt pupils (in fluent English) and finally gave a fascinating History lecture.
He’s a genius.