All of these “Comedians” should be shot at once. Spade twice. At least Chris Farley took himself out. Sheesh.
There is only one Elvis. Presley. This Costello character doesn’t show up on my radar. Nary a Blip. I cheered and made fun of kids when Cobain blew his head off. Happy to see him go.
I’m still wondering how the cast of modern ER manages to stay on the air, unless they’re handing out free BJ’s to critics. I mean, it’s a collection of paper dolls. One dimensonal.
Shirley-THANK YOU for bringing up Jennifer Love Spewitt. Ugh…I think I’ll just vomit right now.
Nirvana, definitely.
Julia Roberts.
Mel Gibson-the guy’s an idiot. He doesn’t believe in birth control and has like 25 kids, and talks about what a good Catholic he is while making stupid chick flicks or historical films that are completely inaccurate.
Tom Hanks-yawn. What’s the big deal?
Jim Carrey-a fucking waste of skin if ever there was one.
Ricky Martin-so he can dance and he can sing. So can a million others. Next, please!
Thead title **Celebs whose fame and success just baffles you? **
People mentioned:
DeNiro (in the same list as Jenny McCarthy)
Frank Sinatra
Elvis
Bob Dylan
Elvis Costello
Samuel L. Jackson(some turkeys ok but have you seen Jungle Fever?)
Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Andy Garcia. I have yet to see a film of his that has not made me grieve for the two hours of my life now gone forever. Is this guy anything but a low-budget substitute for Al Pacino?
Hugh Grant. Ugly. Bland. Boring. Mediocre. How did he get to be famous at all, let alone a hearththrob??
Elvis. Just another hick to me… not that attractive, and his music sucked.
Adam Sandler. Who the hell told him he was funny? When he sings I have to mute the TV or leave the room. He does that weird intonation that I think is supposed to be humorous that is just fucking IRRITATING.
The Backstreet Boys. I saw them on a rerun of SNL just today… You could see the hamster wheels turning in their heads as they ran through their little memorized “choreography” (which sucked) while they took turns singing dull music through their sinuses. How the hell did they get recorded??
Thanks to all who responded so far. A few posters straying ever so slightly off theme… The OP was not about “stars I feel like slagging off 'cos I hate them”. It was about stars whom you don’t hate, and you readily acknowledge must have something going for them given all their achievements, acclaim etc., but you just can’t see their talent even if you try.
I mentioned Elvis costello in my OP. I have the same problem with the one, the only, David Bowie. I’m serious. I love my rock music, I’m the right age to have grown up with DB and to have been there for all his greatest moments, and I don’t begrudge him his god-like status one iota. I just can’t hear anything worth hearing.
Very glad someone brought up Sandra Bernhard, a person who has baffled me for many years. She was very good years ago in the excellent de Niro pic, King of Comedy, but since then… what has she done, why does she keep getting work in everything from ‘Roseanne’ to ‘The Sopranos’ and what is she supposed to be good at? I’ve seen her on x chat shows too, and it seems she goes out of her way to be unlikeable.
Also pleased to see Fran Drescher (sp?) mentioned. None of her work has ever been screened over here in the UK, so she’s unknown (guess that might boost the imigration applications). But give her her due, she has achieved considerable fame and a degree of influence in the TV Hollywood pantheon (I believe she Exec Produces her own show, right?). How did this happen?
All female singers who dance in unison with teams of dancers (except Janet Jackson). Whereas pop/rock groups usually fade away when they stop putting out music with strong melodies almost every “dancing” female singer has risen to fame and maintained it on the basis of bland, inconsequential music. How is that possible?
I had on Much Music and Aaron Carter came on. He’s the little brother to Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. I swear my seven-year-old nearly fainted watching him. Then the two-year-old joined in the swoonfest! Why? Oh, well, she’s young. She’ll grow out of that, I hope. Anyway, since I had to listen, I watched the video too. He couldn’t lip sync his way out of a paper bag. He obviously couldn’t do more than a couple of dance steps at a time either because there were so many cut-aways. I’m just sure there must be some other 11-year-old out there that is cute and CAN dance and CAN sing that deserves a record contract. Ok, I’m done.
Ellen Degeneres…or however you spell it. I remember seeing her do stand up years ago, before the show, before coming out, before Anne Heche. She was…well…bland. White bread. All she did was talk about service on airline travel. About peanuts and club soda…I was yawning. She just didn’t impress me. And I don’t HATE her. She’s. just. not. funny.
Shania Twain-all her songs sound the same-very very boring.
I second the person that said George Hamilton. A sports writer was talking about Jason Sehorn, a very talented cornerback for the New York Giants, but seems to be prone to injury and said that he was, “Becoming the George Hamilton of football” the writer then explained that he meant he was just famous for being famous.
Shania Twain’s a body, not a singer. She’s popular because she was one of the few performers to show off her (admittedly beautiful) form to the country & western crowd. Not that Dolly Parton or Reba McEntire are bad-looking, but I doubt that either one of them is ever going to bare her belly to the cameras.
Remember a few year’s back, an extremely pedestrian sitcom called “Naked Truth”, starring Tea Leoni? Audiences nationwide yawned, critics sneered. So the network put it on hiatus, retooled the premise, fired everybody but T.L., brought in new cast members. Same reaction. Network dropped it. And another network picked it up!!
What the heck? Does Tea Leoni have the pictures of the office Christmas party, or what?
