Entertainers you hate for reasons completly unrelated to their body of work

Definitely!

“Hate” is too strong a term, but I certainly think less of Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness after witnessing their tantrum (“do you know who we are?”) on a flight from Sydney to Brisbane several years ago.

Charlton Heston, for his right-wing propaganda films (something separate from his Hollywood “body of work”). He’s been doing them since the early '80s at least – I recall one I saw in college about the Soviet military threat (pffft!). And another, post-Soviet, about the enduring need for a Star Wars defense system (double pffft!). And then there’s the NRA thing.

John Travolta for pretty much the same reasons. I would have skipped *Pulp Fiction * If I’d have known he was in it…and I actually liked his performance in that film, but still can’t stand him. Also he used his money to buy his own jet transport which he actually pilots, which I think is really cool, but still can’t get past the clam thing.

Cruise, Travolta, Elfman, Corea…any Scientologist I loathe, no matter how talented they are.

Ronald Reagan?

Sylvester Stallone - I went to a movie in Manhattan in the middle of the day (weekday). He came in after the movie started with his then girlfriend - The real tall, bleach blond German one. This was a huge theater (not a multiplex) and there were literally 6 other people scattered throughout the theater. These two decided to sit in the seats directly in front of us and then chatted at full conversational volume all the way through the movie despite requests that they stop. What an obnoxious guy.

Oh, and also Tom Cruise for all the above mentioned reasons as everyone else.

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Good answer.

It’s bizarre that the French view themselves as sophisticated for embracing him, and regard Americans as Puritanical for arresting him.

It’s not as if he had sex with a WILLING teenage girl (some would see that as immoral, but practically nobody would still want him in jail for that). He DRUGGED her, for crying out loud. Even a Gallic hedonist ought to be able to see why THAT’S wrong!

Keifer Sutherland. Hw makes my skin crawl. Many friends told me I should watch 24, I’d love it. Not a chance. Then I found out that it was essentially right-wing torture porn, and I now seriously question my friends’ judgement. I did, however, love watching li’l Reese Witherspoon give him his comeuppance in Freeway, though! :smiley: :cool:

Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, George Clooney, Robert Redford, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Spike Lee, Vincent D’Onofrio and a few others.
It would be easier to list the actors I DON’T dislike for personal reasons.

I’m no big fan of the Baldwin clan and I don’t know why.

I give Polanski a break because the whole Holocaust and Manson unpleasantness may have messed with his head. Also, the girl says she has no ill will towards him and says others shouldn’t either.

Great list for focusing on the self-important celeb-crusaders, but you forgot Ed Beagley Jr. and Alec Baldwin. All Baldwins are horrid, but Alec is the only crusader.

For religious nuttery, I’d add Travolta, Cruise, Madonna, and Gere. The latter for trying to soak up the Dali Lama’s zen, and not for the apocryphal gerbil story.

I’ve run into Henry Winkler. The Fonze is actually a creepy little dude. Now that I think of it, I’ve run into a few celebs, and I can’t remember finding a single one of them personally likeable. Ray Davies maybe. He was OK for the .5 seconds I spoke to him.

Ditto. I was very happy to learn that Adam Baldwin is of no relation. Cause I like him. In fact, he could go all Jayne on the Balwin clan’s asses and I would smile.

Alicia Keys. She just looks like she’s full of herself.

And her mother basically pimped her to Polanski, yet wasn’t charged.

I can’t stand Britney Spears.

Frank Sinatra.
He was proud to associate himself with the Maffia. Hey Frank, here’s a newsflash: the Mob is in the business of harming people for profit. Glamorous, eh? Well, I could say the same about all those rappers associating themselves with violent streetgangs, but rap never appealed to me enough to know any actual artists by name. Fifty Cent, perhaps.

Albert Einstein.
He was a bad husband to his first wife Mileva, forcing a wife whom he described as his intellectual equal, to be a homemaker first and foremost. He also practically abandoned his mentally retarded son.

This is pretty much my list, or at least my type of list. (need to add Alec Baldwin).

But the “winner” is Jane Fonda.

Josh Hartnett. Yeah, you can squint. Now how about giving acting a try one of these years?

Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah, you can mope. Now how about giving acting a try one of these years.

Dixie Chicks. They creep me out just because in EVERY PICTURE I EVER FUCKIN SEE OF THEM, the short chubby girl always places herself in the middle. Always. That’s so not natural.

Sean Penn. Man you can act, but you love yourself just a little too much, don’t you?

Bill W…Give up on your alcoholism and trade it in for sex addiction so that you fuck every vulnerable woman that comes under your wing. Well done. You role model.