Jennifer Lopez, ever since I heard that she goes shopping with two cars, one for herself and another for her purchases. Plus Marc Anthony looks so whipped in photos of them together.
Also, I have to admit I lost some respect for Beck ever since his membership in Scientology became public. I still like his music, but I don’t respect him as much as a person anymore.
That seems like a whole lot of rationalizing.
Maybe reading your second sentence again might help?
Lars Ulrich of Metallica. Hell, pretty much all of Metallica. I’m not a fan of their post Justice music but I still listen to their 80s stuff, and recognize that their new music is good for what it is, but I’ve come to really despise the people behind it.
Word.
My “list” is pretty much like everyone else’s.
Tom Cruise is a big one because he thinks he knows everything about depression and the meds that go along with it. The way he treats Katie is another reason.
Brittney Spears. Just the thought of her annoys me.
O.J. Simpson for obvious reasons. I hope he is found guilty this time.
Michael Jackson because he is a sicko.
And David Caruso. No real reason except that his voice irks me.
I don’t like the militant Scientoligists (like Cruise or K. Alley), but I think it is bigotry to hate someone just because of their religion.
Just knowing that Beck or Jason Lee are members of Scientology, and hating them for it, seems a bit intolerant. To my knowledge, they keep their personal lives personal.
Why hate on that?
I have no problem with religious conservatives, but Pat Robertson is a douche.
I have no problem with atheists, but the militant atheists who are out to mock faith bug the crap out of me.
It should only be a behavior based standard.
The guy’s a pedo.
Now you know why you find him so goddamn creepy.
GAH! Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew. Just what I did NOT need to know about the guy. Wow, that’s pleasant to contemplate isn’t it? Thank you for that tidbit of information. I’m just going to go flush my skull out with Liquid Plumr now.
Dear god, as horrible as child molestation is to begin with, a kid being molested BY JEFFREY JONES must be like molestation cubed. Those pale, bulging eyes; the unnerving, too-tight voice… that kid ain’t never going to be right again.
Alan Alda. I have no rational reason but I can no longer bear to watch reruns of MASH.
Add me to the Scientologist list.
Closer to my own neighborhood, there’s Yujiro Ishihara, who was famous for playing gangsters and other tough-guy roles in the post-war era.
I hate him utterly and solely because of his brother Shintaro, who is currently the governor of Tokyo. Shintaro Ishihara is [sees we’re not in the Pit] …an individual with whom I strongly disagree.
Why? What has he done? I have no idea what goes on in Tokyo beyond what meanders across the Pacific. And Godzilla attacks, but that goes without saying.
Scientologists do skeeze me out a bit, but Eddie Murphy really creeps me out, especially in family comedies…
Well said. I just tend to roll my eyes whenever I run across the Scientology pile-ons and I’m an atheist that thinks all religions are pretty much fairy tales.
I only “hate” (make that strongly dislike) the Scientologists who are militant about it in some fashion - doing films promoting that cult (Travolta), saying postpartum depression just means you need some vitamins (Cruise), etc. For the others, I just feel distressed that financially supporting them would put money into that place’s coffers - and more directly than for most Catholics supporting the Catholic Church, as with Scientology, you need to pay money to learn more of their scriptures, to go to “confession” (auditing), to remain in and advance in the church. Other churches expect donations in the collection plate but they don’t nearly have the same “you must give us tons of money or you’re screwed” thing going that the Scienos do.
Besides the vitamin/postpartum depression thing, Cruise is also really creepy about how he hangs onto his wife, as was mentioned earlier. I’ve always hated seeing guys pull their gals around by the arm or direct them by holding onto the back of the neck, so it’s just as weird to me when he does it.
Rachael Ray: Just. Shut. Up. Please. I couldn’t escape you at the grocery store - they piped in your perky yet harsh voice blathering on about “oh hey, you’re probably shopping for some big holiday dinner right now, aren’t you? Well blahblahblah…” Yes, now shut the hell up and let me shop in peace!
I certainly think the way the Scientologists run their organization is strange, if not borderline cultish. Having said that, I don’t really have a problem with people who choose this faith. As others have noted, it’s the ones who have to pump it in to every interview, or have that glassy-eyed stare and response about how it’s made their life better, or feel the need to pontificate on issues that they have no idea about (Travolta and Thomas Mapother fit this category).
Watching the BBC Panorama episode about Scientology was interesting - if you Google the terms you can watch the entire thing on Google video, and Alley, Rimini, Juliette Lewis,and a few others went on camera prattling on about how it changed their lives. (They withdrew permission for the BBC to show their interviews in the end.) To me that’s a little weird, that the org can send out these celeb Scientologists for interviews and the like…
Beck’s parents were/are Scientologists, so he’s a part of that faith more or less the same way I am - my parents are Christians, I was born into it. I never hear him going on and on about it, so to dislike him simply because he’s a Scientologist seems pretty intolerant to me.
FTR, I feel the same way about Christianity. Someone like Kirk Cameron is completely obnoxious, while I have no problem with the guys in U2 who are pretty devout.
Madonna
For thinking she has some unique wisdom to share with children.
And because apparently she thinks the reason her movies fail at the box office is that there’s some sort of conspiracy against/hatred for her. Instead of, you know, the movies suck, she can’t act, that kind of thing.
And for adopting an English accent.
Bono, every time he opens his mouth and isn’t singing. Every time he pontificates about anything to do wth politics, ecology or global warming. From the way he talks, you’d think all U2 records and CDs were manufactured without using up any oil, that all U2 merchadise ever sold was produced entirely from recycled materials and personally endorsed by a Brazilian peasant farmer, and that the band gets from gig to gig by cycling. Yeah, we get it, you want to save the world, provided we still buy everything you put out, you can be driven to the video shoot in a limo and you can create a personal carbon footprint the size of Africa.
Ditto anyone other celebrity tree-hugger and autocratic rent-a-mouthpiece save-the-world genius. News flash! Sorry if it’s a shock, but being pretty good at singing or acting or whatever does not confer awe-inspiring wisdom about complex geo-political issues, does not grant admirable insight into complex scientific topics such as global warming or analysis of the eco-system, does not make your opinion any more important than any random opinonated loudmouth propping up the local student bar, and does not confer magical invulnerability from the charge of hypocrisy.
Sheryl Crow
Yeah child molestation is way less gross when the molester is hot! :dubious:
Sean Connery for his wife-beating comment, and Cameron Diaz, because she seems like a real bitch.
Not at all. But it’s definitely way, WAY less gross when the molester ISN’T JEFFREY JONES!