Tom Cruise, for the way he acts in relation to Katie Holmes. I saw a clip of them talking to a crowd around them about Katie running the marathon “She trained for two months–that’s impressive” but talking over her and owning the information. It was the exact tone of voice my father uses when coopting the conversation and talking over my mom.
Sarah Jessica Parker for getting work with a face like a foot.
James Woods, for being smarmy and for dating a 20-year-old who he knew when she was a little girl.
You will need to withdraw this comment. I totally crush on Ashley Judd, and was just thinking how she wasn’t visible enough. Bug, however, was a horrible movie. I have to admit that, and also that she didn’t look so hot in it.
I agree that Mimi Rogers is the finest-looking woman in her age group in the world, but she’s a Scientologist. In fact, I believe that she introduced Tom to it.
So my appreciation of the deleted scene in Dumb and Dumberer, in which she looks, well, she looks darned fine, to say the least, is always tempered with that sad fact.
Rik and vetbridge, I’ve read his accounts of his life at that time, but that doesn’t excuse him being a dick to a few kids who just wanted his autograph.
Really don’t get the hate for Scientologists - sure, they’re a paranoid nutso cult, but hang, nobody dislikes celebs just because they are Catholics or whatever, and yet I’m sure I could dig up things from those religions if I chose (paedo priest coverup, for ex.)
Anyway, to the thread - Sean Connery, never forgiven him for the wifebeating comment. Making out with CZJ in Entrapment was just the cherry on top.
Michael Douglas. Just for being with CZJ. I’m serious.
Don’t forget his holier-than-thou views on hunting and how he does it with a bow because that’s what the Indians did and blah blah blah. Then make your bow out of a tree branch, knock off the scopes, quit buying your arrows and make those out of rocks, etc. Ya jackass.
Hold on there. Woody Allen was never a “father figure” for Soon-Yi Previn. He was never married to Mia Farrow, never lived with Mia Farrow, and never spent even one night at Mia Farrow’s.
He had three children with Mia and claimed to be a “father figure” to them, even so far as to claim she was an “unfit mother” and try to get total custody. How could he selectively be a “father figure” to only three of the children and claim she was an “unfit mother” to only those three?
The court slammed him as a “father figure,” stating he knew nothing about their lives and failed to see how having an affair with their teen-aged sister would affect them. He couldn’t name their doctors, any of their friends, or the names of their pets.
Shirley MacLaine bugs the hell out of me even though I think she’s a great actress. It’s not just the wacky New Ageism (though that’s enough- especially when she starts saying her dog is the reincarnation of Anubis [I’ve got terriers too, Shirl- hate to disappoint, but the resemblance you stress to statues of Anubis is what some of us call ‘breed characteristics’]). It’s also the smug self-righteousness- I’ve heard her make snarky comments on conservative Christianity (which I have no great reverence for either) but at the same time defend Islam and her own Our Lady of Perpetual Loopiness beliefs, plus she has a reputation for being a terror to work with. (Anthony Hopkins trashed her in one interview as the most unprofessional diva he’d ever co-starred with- probably a cite available but I’m in a time crunch.)
Sure, Catholicism has its detractors, but it took them hundreds of years before they firmly established themselves as a manipulative profiteering hierarchy with a tradition of abuse and deception. Scientology was built that way from the start.
Also I don’t think the Catholic Church specifically focuses their prosletyzing efforts on Hollywood celebrities as a means of attracting more converts, as Scientology supposedly does. I daresay the official Vatican publications don’t generally include glossy testimonials from famous people telling how Catholicism changed their lives. But then again maybe they do; the Vatican never sends me any of its official publications.
Plus, you know, the “paranoid nutso cult” aspect is a big factor on its own. Catholicism can be excused much of its nuttiness by virtue of the fact that it first became popular in Ye Olden Times, when people were generally illiterate and were constantly tripping out from ergotism and whatnot. Scientology was put together during the Space Age! There’s really no excuse for believing in such nonsense when you can just visit the library and discover for yourself that its founder was a freaked-out maniac.
Speaking of which… I guess L. Ron Hubbard qualifies as an entertainer. There have been plenty of nutty SF writers, but only one invented a pyramid scheme-style religion and successfully foisted it on others in his spare time. If it weren’t for Scientology he’d be a footnote in the history of magazine publishing.
As far as “just being creeped out”… Jeffrey Jones is a fairly successful character actor who simply bugs the hell out of me, and I don’t know why. Something about the man just oozes negative charisma. Doesn’t matter if he’s doing comedy, drama, whatever-- watching him feels like having something in my eye. Obviously he still gets work, so apparently it’s just me who thinks this.
Unfortunately, some parents do it quite easily: by paying attention to those three and not the others, although it seems he paid attention mostly to just one of the three, their adopted daughter Dylan.
Never take on face value what the parties claim in a custody battle.
Naomi Judd, for the “Look at me, I’m famous and I’m sick, isn’t it awful?” tour. Maybe she raised awareness about Hep-C, but really, it was all about her.
Anne Heche for using Ellen Degeneres to get famous, and Ellen Degeneres for using her show for an issue that would have been better resolved on Judge Judy, and Judge Judy for being mean to dumb people.
Patricia Heaton because I think she’s self-righteous and judgmental.
I love the Nuge.