Sean Penn. The man’s a good enough actor, but does every performance have to come off like a play for another academy award?
posted by yellowval
Not only that, but I think when he gets scripts in the mail, he must decide to do them based on how depressing they are. 21 grams was so critically acclaimed and I thought it was one of the most depressing movies I’ve ever seen. Until Mystic River .
Yes, Sean, we can see you have “dark, angry, and intense” down. Can you lighten up a little?
Oh, he played a happy guy once, but it just so happened that the character was developmentally disabled ("I Am Sam.).
Same here. Great writer, total dick. How can he have so much sympathy for various types of alien but so little for human beings? I guess the aliens must all be straight…
I’ll pick another Beatle…Paul McCartney.
I worship the Beatles, and I even enjoy most of Paul’s solo work (including material that the critics loathe). I would definitely make an effort to see him live if he comes within 500 or so miles again.
But in many interviews/documentaries he comes across as a bit of a gasbag. For instance in the documentary Let it Be he is constantly blathering about his “vision” for the group while the other three just sit there, take his direction on everything, and roll their eyes at him when he’s not looking. I used to think Yoko broke up the Beatles before their time…now I think its a wonder they managed to hold together for so long.
Some of the same can be said for Bono. I like his music, admire his ‘causes’, but I think he would be insufferable to be around.
Tom Hanks. Good, usually great, actor. Just smug enough to piss me off.
Kobe Bryant. Tremendous athlete. Horrible human being. Despicable.
He must be sporting a killer kielbasa, because I saw him on tv with a drop-dead gorgeous super-hottie, and he just kept going on about how beautiful she was. Like, “look what I bagged!”
Billy Bob Thornton. Highly underrated actor. I love his take on Hollywood. But, in real life I think he’d scare me.
Gotten this far without Barry Bonds, eh?
I can respect the accomplishments he’s achieved in his career, but he comes off as an insufferable prick who’s all about the me-me-me attitude.
Any baseball player that refuses to sign free autographs, and doesn’t respect the fans that fund his paycheck can go straight to hell. Don’t pass Go, don’t collect $200.
A career-ending injury the day before tying Hank Aaron’s home run record would suit me just fine.
I believe probably 75% of it is just HE playing to the camera/his audience, and I too loved his rants on the “Buzz,” where he was given three or four minutes. Any more than that would be overkill.
To add to what some other posters have mentioned: Ellison, in an article in the 70s or early 80s, claimed to have slept with over 500 different women (he mentions having caught the clap a half dozen times, and, if memory serves, paid for about a dozen abortions, before a vasectomy in the mid-70s). At one time that may have been an outrageous number of partners (for some, it may still be), but he has a long way to go to outdo Wilt the Stilt (whom he has so far outlived by seven years). I’d say he may hold the record for SF writers, though.
Susan, Ellison’s wife for the past fifteen or so years, is a Scot, and a former bartender, so maybe she is used to dealing with jerks. Or maybe he has found true love at last and it has settled him.
Sir Rhosis
I’d like to nominate a title for this: Cobb, as in “Ty Cobb”.
You could say, “Man, you know who I really Cobb? Sean Penn!”
“Oh, I hear ya, man! I totally Cobb him and Bono, too! What a couple of Asses! But they sure are talented.”
“Yeah. What a waste! They’re a couple of real Cobbs.”
I was going to say I Cobb Ayrton Senna, but then I realized I don’t really admire him in any way and am not all that impressed with his accomplishments. (Most, if not all, of which are soon to be removed from the record books by Mr. Schumacher. )
If the stories in “A Hard Day’s Write” are any indication, Paul was the catalyst behind the group. John admitted in interviews (quoted in the book) that he was lazy, and once the Beatle became a hit, wrote less and less. Paul picked up the slack. What also bugged Paul was that he was the one who was heavily into experimental music long before John, but it seemed to him that John was getting the credit.
John also admits that he was difficult to get along with, and that his darker side surfaced easily.
And by the time of the “Let it Be” period, I can imagine that Paul had his work cut out for him, trying to keep everyone together.
Now, I’m not saying that Paul’s a gasbag, but he seems like a nice guy, and if you’re looking for good dope, he’s your man!
A reasonable person can disagree with a lot of Card’s beliefs, and for the most part I’m such a person. But having met him briefly, I must say that he was particularly nice. I’ve heard nothing else from others who’ve met him. I don’t think “total dick” really applies.
(I’d like to really respond to this thread, but I can’t; whenever I really dislike someone I tend to stop respecting them completely. The closest I can come is Moxy Fruvous, whose music I’m fond of, but whose political beliefs I can’t condone.)
Richard Wagner.
What do I win?
Adolph Hitler.
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Can I just say that Harlan Ellison was nice to me, and is to my friend who knows him?
Perhaps he’s mellowed in his old age. A lot of guys are like that. They say, “Oh this woman finally tamed me” when the truth is the last wife met 'em when they were on their last legs (so to speak.)
I’d rather not meet anyone I admire, feet of clay, feet of clay.
On the other hand, sometimes you bump into a celeb you don’t care for at your cousin’s barbecue or something, and that celeb turns out to be a really nice person.
Or you see them on TV. I used to think Celine Dion looked like a horrible snob until I saw her on Oprah. Good sense of humour, very much a part of her family. Oprah surprised her by bringing the whole clan onstage. There are over a dozen of 'em and they all sing. The French song they performed sounded like a trained choir.
OTOH, Canada’s other claim to fame, Shania Twain, makes me want to bitch-slap her into next week. If only her songs weren’t so darn catchy…
:rolleyes:
For some reason he’s in tight with Hugh Hefner, and I suspect he gets to parade around with a lot Playboy’s hotties as a result. Whether he actually beds them or not is another story, but more than a few of those girls will do whatever they think will please Hefner, and if banging one of his buddies might get them in the magazine or extend their hang time at the Mansion I suspect they’re more than ready to do it.
Sir Rhosis writes:
> . . . Ellison, in an article in the 70s or early 80s, claimed to have slept with over
> 500 different women . . .
Have you considered the possibility that Ellison was lying? He doesn’t have much of a reputation for honesty. I could give you some examples if you’d like (although I’ve already done this on other threads and am tired of repeating myself).
RE: Sean Penn
Excuse me??? This is the guy who had a pizza delivered to him in History Class!!! A pizza! In History Class! I was completely agog at the sheer wackiness of it! A pizza! In History Class!
Wacky, wacky fun! 