I found something interesting. Google “Steve Martin jerk” and you get 487,000 results. Not surprising due to his childhood as a poor black child. But google “Richard Gere jerk”, who was not born a poor black child to my knowledge, and you get 750,000!
Richard Gere is hotter, so he generates more interest. 
I should probably add that I don’t recall ever hearing complaints about Martin from people in the industry. He seems to be well-liked and respected enough within the entertainment community itself.
(And yes, I saw what you were doing there. ;))
I don’t know. First of all, it’s not like Steve Martin is such a standard looking person that anyone would likely not know it was Steve Martin. So, in all likelyhood, the question itself is just a chance to say you talked to Steve Martin. Second, it probably happens all of the time, and that becomes tiring.
I’ve no idea if he’s a reasonable person, but I recognize that the celebrity situation can be significantly different from appearances.
What authority?
I thought Carlos Mencia was widely disliked, mainly for stealing jokes, the cardinal sin of comedians.
Though in fairness Rogan comes across as a giant ass. His comments about Mencia being born with a non-Hispanic name, for instance… what difference does it make? He clearly and with good reason culturally identifies as Hispanic, he just happens to have distant ancestors who weren’t.
Bronson Pinchot gave an interview a couple of years ago in which he named names. Two that he names that I’ve heard from other sources were Bette Midler (James Caan really opened fire on her in one interview) and Denzel Washington (who Antonio Banderas described in very diplomatic terms that translate to “prick” [something like ‘a perfectionist who wants the same of everybody else and isn’t likely to settle for less’] when they worked on Philadelphia).
I don’t know about her co-stars, but I knew some extras on the set of a Courtney Cox movie who all said she was a grade a biatch to “the little people”.
That is just a clip of Joe Rogan yelling at him. Honestly, I think(though don’t know for sure) that he is widely disliked by comedians.
Bronson Pinchot also said Eddie Murphy is hard to work with. Very hard to work with.
Wait, “a grade a biatch to 'the little people”’ reminds me. How could we have forgotten Shannon Doherty?
A lot of old time movie people hated studio boss Harry Cohn. I remember John Wayne in a “Playboy” interview in 1970 saying he couldn’t stand him.
I guess Prince would qualify or did in the 1980s, was Prince. He got kicked out of the “We are the World” sessions for his ego. Keith Richards was once played a Prince track in a blind test of his new single by Musician magazine. Keef recognized it as Prince and told them to stop playing it. He opened for the Stones in 1981 and they couldn’t stand him.
Lots of people, except for Leonard Nimoy, can’t stand William Shatner.
In a book about the “Combat” tv series, it says out of guest stars Jack Lord and Rip Torn were disliked by the cast regulars. Although one of the cast members, Dick Peabody, did say because they played unsympathetic characters on the episode, that sometimes rubs off on actors.
I think in their day that Marlon Brando and Milton Berle were strongly disliked.
Sean Young had a career for awhile in the 1980s, highlighted by “Stripes”, but she became unloved and unemployed.
Linda Fiorentino sabotaged her career by being difficult to work with.
“Director Kevin Smith said in his DVD commentary for Dogma (1999) that Linda wouldn’t even speak to him some days and, in retrospect, he wishes he had given the part of Bethany to Janeane Garofalo instead.” (from her IMDB page)
Well, does this go much further than the core Star Trek cast? I know Wil Wheaton had issues with him too, but don’t most people get along with him?
I thought Shatner is mostly amiable.
Shatner gave his take on the *Star Trek *situation once which I thought was interesting. He explained that he and Nimoy had to be on the set all day, every day, while most of the other actors were essentially part-timers who might go days without having even to show up on set. But then, because they were still part of the cast America saw and everybody they encountered in public were telling them how great they were, the supporting players began to feel that they should have the same screen time, say-so on the set and the same pay that he and to a lesser extent Nimoy received. Natually this led to conflict on the set and frustration on the part of the supporting actors toward him as the star of the show, and it was this which he feels is the reason for the resentment of his former cast members. FWIW, I don’t remember hearing castmates speak ill of him during his run on T.J. Hooker or Boston Legal.
I’m sure there were dozens of both stars and “little people” who were mightily irritated, back in the day, by Marilyn Monroe. Who either didn’t show up, showed up hours late, wouldn’t come out of her dressing room for half the day, and when she did, couldn’t remember her lines/required a hundred takes. Excuses were always made for The Poor Troubled Girl, but if it had been a lesser woman, or some man - well!
There’s also the famous tale of Bill Murray punching Chase on the set of SNL for some not-so-playful ribbing of him.
I don’t understand this idea that because of one incident in one movie in a career spanning over 20 years somehow makes him a total asshole. He’s actually well-liked in Hollywood. As far as the rant, Bryce Howard said that he apologized to the DP directly after the incident, it was dropped and they went on filming.
Christina Aguilera doesn’t seem to be very well liked by her contemporaries - she has a habit of “throwing shade” at other celebrities during interviews, like suggesting Beyoncé was lip-syncing during a big performance a few years back, and of course her famous “I don’t know if it is a man or a woman” comment about Lady Gaga, which some believe led to her decreased popularity during the release of her 2010 album Bionic, which was a huge flop.
She has also had feuds with Mariah Carey and most famously Britney Spears. Remember when Britney kissed Madonna and then Christina kissed Madonna, but during the Madonna/Christina kiss, the camera cut away to a reaction shot of Britney’s ex, Justin Timberlake? Christina was supposedly not at all happy about that.
The legends seem to like her, though. Madonna invited her to perform (alongside Britney) at the 2003 Video Music Awards, and Christina reportedly became good friends with Cher on the set of their film Burlesque.
Prince was never there, he wasn’t kicked out. There are a lot of stories as to why, the most famous being that he was bailing a bodyguard out of jail. His PR says he never agreed to be there, and the question of his presence led to development of a special part for him that had to be retooled. Via that last cite, it’s not hard to picture exactly where he was meant to be, actually.
According to recent comments (she may have an autobio coming out) Jane Curtin had major problems during SNL with John Belushi. Granted he was terribly coked out at the time, but he apparently refused to perform, or perform properly, in any skit written by or highly focused on Jane, Gilda Radner or Laraine Newman. He was of the “women aren’t funny” school and did nothing to hide his disdain.
Which brings around another hated persona: Jerry Lewis. I know a whole lot of people who use his face for their dartboard center.
I met her once at a political fund raiser. I was just helping with the sound system, and I was a smelly 16 year old hippy with a buzz from sneaking glasses of wine. She could not have been any nicer to me.
The lyrics of his B-side ‘Hello’ address the ‘We Are The World’ controversy:
The song itself is more about media invasion but it explains a bit about ‘We Are The World’. The song he wrote for the charity album, ‘4 The Tears In Your Eyes’, is one of my favourite Prince rarities.
Burt Reynolds (who’s had his own prima donna allegations) mentioned bringing Ricardo Montalban and wife with him on a trip to Jupiter, Florida where he owned property and a dinner theater. Ricardo and wife charmed everybody- Reynolds described t hem both as just warm and wonderful human beings. He’d also brought down his buddies Jim Nabors and Jerry Reed who were similarly beloved by the people who met them. After meeting those two the people from Jupiter were constantly after him to bring more of his show biz pals around and try to get them to settle there and he couldn’t convince them that Nabors and Montalban were exceptions, most show biz types you really don’t want around, but they kept insisting.
He said that he then brought a particular co-star who he considered “quintessential Hollywood”- every cliche you could think of about a star personality and then some- and brought him down (it was a guy). He was so obnoxious that the people of Jupiter stopped asking him to bring celebrities with him. He wouldn’t identify who the person was, but does anybody have any idea? It would be somebody who co-starred in a movie with Burt Reynolds who was that obnoxious? (I thought about Jackie Gleason, but he lived in south Florida anyway so I doubt it was him.)
Speaking of We Are the World, John Denver was involved in the early stages but was supposedly dropped because he was so obnoxious Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones and some of the other biggies on the project wouldn’t work with him. Streisand was said to be a pain in the ass diva on the 25th Anniversary Abortion but not enough for them to cut her. Celine Dion is supposedly nice as a person but comes with a rider that’s slightly shorter than the Supreme Court’s complete transcripts through 1926 that can be very off-putting.