Celebs whose fame and success just baffles you?

In My Humble Opinion
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When it comes to “bands” like Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, usually they really aren’t famous, they just appear to be, because of evil rich publicists pushing them into our faces, putting them on every network. They give the illusion that they’re really famous, saying “look at all the fans they have! Why aren’t YOU a fan!?” but they don’t really have that many fans. It may have been my imagination, but I remember seeing a Backstreet Boys concert on TV, and there were obvious sounds of girls screaming, but when the camera went over the audience, they all looked rather bored. Or they looked like they were paid to act excited. And the screaming girls sound effect sounded like it was dubbed over. That’s why publicists are evil.

BTW, I disagree with a lot of the people mentioned here, but I’ll second Elvis. He’s not good-looking (as far as I can tell, I’m a straight male) and his songs aren’t even good.

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Whoa. That IS evil!! Let’s expose them and be even more evil. :slight_smile: I mean look at how many people on the SD board hate them.

Why do people like Britney Spears though? I do know guys who lust after her (one guy who has pics of her all over his assignment pad <puke>)…yeah, high school guys. :smiley: But seriously she’s so bland looking…like a living barbie doll. Do guys actually think she’s the sexiest girl in the world? There have got to be more interesting, sexier people in the world…Britney Spears looks like any other good looking person. Unoriginal. Why like her so much? Why not any one of the others? Sorry that turned into a rant…

I have to agree w/ the Nirvana phenomenom…I don’t think they’re that great. I used to pracitcally worship them a couple of years ago but now…eh…u know?

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Thought of another. Winona Ryder. What is it with her? Other than a few roles, she has been horribly miscast. I mean, Abigail in “The Crucible”? Dear Lord, MADONNA would have been better in that role. At least she’s sexual, for pete’s sake.

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I agree with Shirly Ujest regarding:

“Comedian” Andy Dick (whose schtick seems to be “I’m a clumsy homosexual”)

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Celine Dion – droning voice, and, IMHO, totally unattractive and untalented. I thought she was going to retire to have a kid, but I see her all the time

Some more untalented celebrities:

Dr. Joyce Brothers - why is she famous again?

Zsa Zsa Gabor – ditto

Star Jones – dumbest lawyer around. Seems like a nice person, and has a great smile, but is dumb as a post.

Dick Clark – familiarity does not equal any talent (and america’s oldest teenager looks like The Mummy)

Whoopi Goldberg – not totally untalented as an actress, but about the least funny comedians around.

Margaret Chong – I’m an overweight Asian who will make fun of Asian stereotypes to get a laugh…ha ha!

Melissa Rivers – at least her mother is funny

Burt Wolfe – your voice drives me (and others) crazy, and your “job” seems to be mostly voice-overs on cooking shows. Go figure.

They may have had talent at some point, but I am tired of seeing them now:

Ted Danson, Robin Williams (I’m not just funny, I can do drama! We know, we know), Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Bob Vila, Cheech Marin, Scott Hamilton, RuPaul, Dixie Chicks, and Geraldo Rivera.

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they just upset me.

I am not going to be specific, because that would be pit-worthy, but some of the opinions around here leave me dazed and confused. Lots and lots I understand, but others…well, if you think x, y and z are talentless, who in god’s name do you think DOES have talent??

sheesh.

stoid

For the OP: Adam Sandler, without question.

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Helen Hunt
I cannot figure out why she is every damn movie this year. I cannot figure out why she is any movie at all. She has exactlye ONE character, Jamie Buchman. She just does that character over, and over, and over, and over. That’s not acting folks!
Qwenyth Paltrow (SP?). Again, same character over and over and over.

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Paul Reiser. To my min an unfunny comedian, an unfunny sitcom character, an annoying advertising pitchman, and an unfunny writer. A quadruple threat.

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make that “mind” instead of “min”. Sorry.

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Ezra Pound
William Faulkner
Alexander Pope

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Mariah Carey. Has to be the blandest, most overrated singer of the 90s by a mile.

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And Hugh Grant, too.

In my award-winning thread Going to the movies “just because”, I wondered out loud why people are drawn to see a movie when they know nothing else except that Tom Hanks is starring in it.

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I’ll usually see movies with Tom Hanks because he has a good track record for picking good movies. Either that or he elevates a mundane script to the next level. Who knows? Anyway, I can’t think of a dud that he’s been in aside from “Joe and the Volcano”, which I didn’t see because the reviews were out before I plunked down my money.

Daniel Day-Lewis is another guy who I can trust to have done his homework. (Yes, yes, I lust after the guy, but that’s beside the point.) Either he, or his agent, does a good job of picking out good scripts.

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. . . and Pia Zadorra . . . who is she anyway???

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The wife (or ex-wife) of a much older, much wealthier guy who financed all her film projects. Ditto for Bo Derek.

–sublight.

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As for the poster who didn’t see “Joe Vs. The Volcano,” it is worth renting. Not the greatest Hanks film, but it’s an odd little quirk of a film that has some really wonderfully bizzare set pieces that just make perfect sense in the context of the movie. Fun movie, from Hanks (as he put it) “find the shapes in my curls period.”

I knew Hanks was going to do even better things when I was watching tape of the SAG breakfast during the whole hoopla over his performance in “Philadelphia,” and he pulled out his SAG card and said to the crowd: “Just remember, I got his card for ‘Bosom Buddies’!”

And, of course, one of of my choices in my OP was Benecio Del Toro. Who just won actor of the year from Toronto Films Critics and got a Golden Globe nomination? Sheeshh… Okay, I’ll hold off judgement until I see “Traffic.”

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Okay…she is cute…but not striking. She hasn’t won’t a tournament yet. Does anyone see her as more than just cute?

If she is that “hot”, I’m at a loss to explain it. She is the #1 internet babe right now - go figure.

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Has anyone mentioned Drew Barrymore? And if not, why??? How this no talent/annoying child actor/famous persons kid keeps getting work is beyond me. And who’s idea was it to put her in a movie next to Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz?? Whats next - Jepeordy against Steven Hawking and Cecil Adams?

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Regarding Gwyneth Paltrow’s range, or lack of it, I’ll leave others to their views, but in ‘Sliding Doors’ she was required to deliver not one but two distinct English accents, and nailed them both with utter accuracy - not just the accent itself, but also mastery of the idioms, internal rhythms and inflections… and so on. For whatever reason, this task seems beyond most American actors - even the ‘good’ ones - so the results are normally quite amusing for us Brits (I’m sure it’s equally true vice-versa). So all credit to GP for getting it right.

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David Letterman - one of the least funny people I have ever encountered in my life. An one of the most annoying personalities. And he’s unusually unpleasant to look at. How can anyone stand to listen to this guy?

Barbara Walters – she’s ugly, she can’t speak correctly, and in every other way she’s just an everage person off the street. How did she get famous?

George W. Bush – out of all the people in the US, why was he picked by the Republicans?

Any political pundit – these guys are always just guessing.

Ronald Reagan – why did people say he was a great communicator? I always got the impression he was reading a script. He was. He was just an actor.

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Dustin Hoffman – I may be in the minirity here, but I never felt this guy could act his way out of box

Also

Al Pacino ---- Horrendous actor. He’s himself in every role.