To be fair, that accent is VERY addictive. I hated her for this until I spent a week in London. I found myself wanting to speak with the accent because it is truly a superor accent. Of course, with my choppy Texas via rural Alabama accent, the British knock off just sounded ridiculous.
Jeffrey Jones used to look like an older version of Clay Aiken. Or a younger Thomas Jefferson.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan come to mind. I’m sure I’m not the only Californian to think so.
Metallica is a big one. Napster was the first thing to convince me to actually go out and buy new albums, but since Metallica got the nation into anti-Napster fervor and the RIAA started fucking people over, I’ve been on a continual boycott of the record industry.
Can anyone expound on the Baldwin thing? I’m not familiar with the story.
FTR, my dad’s great-uncle used to own a restaurant in LA frequented by the stars of the time, and he says that, although Sinatra was a douchebag, Sammy Davis was the nicest guy to ever be famous. He never remembered to pay his bill, though. He’d run up a tab of a few hundred bucks until MDGE called him up and reminded him, and then he was more than happy to write out a check instantly. Never caught shit for it, since he never actually tried [very hard] to get out of paying, and he kept coming back. He (MDGE) used to go to Rams games with Nat King Cole and has nice things to say about him as well.
And BTW, I can forgive the Scientologists (other than Tom Cruise) because I don’t see it as all that much nuttier than any other mainstream religion, but if someone in Hollywood came out and said they sincerely believed in the alien-lizard-rulers theory or the Illuminati, I’d have to write them off as needing meds badly.
I always think it’s pretty funny to watch conservatives get all worked up because celebrities talk about their politics every once in a while. If they’re so irrelevant, why do the neocons care so much? And there’s always the inherent claim that somehow, the mere fact of stating their political opinions implies that they (the celebrities) are proclaiming their godly domination of logic and reason, whereas we’re apparently supposed to take the neocon backlash as an expression of humility and deference.
Go see Garden State and tell me if you feel the same. Seeing him in just about any other context has made my animosity toward him grow, but then I remember Garden State and I’m OK with him again.
And with horrible dialogue to boot. Think Return of the Jedi on painkillers.
In fact, that’s where the term “no-no” (for a no-hitter in progress) comes from. And similar to what Sean Factotum said, if he dropped a lot of acid you’d think he would’ve been more concerned with promoting world unity, good feelings, etc.
After dating her for a little less than a year IIRC, he brought her a box of chocolates in the hospital.
She’s allergic to chocolate.
I was in boot camp with a guy who claimed to be from “the block” that “Jenny” grew up on, and said she was a total douchebag. Apparently she demanded her own row of pews at church because she just couldn’t stand to be that close to the lower species inhabiting her old neighborhood. :rolleyes:
It’s not so much the whole Baldwin clan but Alec in particular. He’s known for publicly expressing his liberal viewpoint on a number of issues and that naturally makes him a target of the right-wing radio ranters who use him as a poster boy to verbally beat up on the “liberal elites who control Hollywood and the media.” He’s also known for having a hair-trigger temper.
That’s it?
Symmetry isn’t natural? And no frickin’ way is Natalie “chubby.”
Well, there was also the matter of his voice mail message to his daughter.
Ishihara’s one of the ultranationalist old guard that insists the Rape of Nanking and other wartime atrocities never happened. Like Yukio Mishima, he feels ashamed that was born early enough to experience the war, but too late to fight (he was 13 in 1945), and has spent the rest of his life trying to compensate by being a rabid hyper-patriot. He pretty much hates anyone who’s not Japanese and not fanatically devoted to: (in order of importance) him, his notion of prewar Japan, and the emperor.
Among his better moments:
- Speaking to members of the military taking part in an earthquake preparedness drill, he warned that in the event of a major earthquake, foreigners would terrorize the city, so the military had to be ready to round us all up. Incidentally, after the last big earthquake to hit Tokyo (in 1923), thousands of Koreans and Chinese were rounded up and massacred by Japanese mobs.
- When he first ran for parliament, one of his opponents was of Korean descent, so he had his goons put up ‘anonymous’ posters calling the opponent’s parents North Korean spies.
- When an ultranationalist group planted a bomb at the home of the deputy foreign minister (no one was hurt), he announced his support for the bombers.
- “Roppongi [an upscale neighborhood of Tokyo popular with westerners] is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans — I don’t mean African-Americans — who don’t speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.”
- “Old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin.”
Sadly, he’s been elected three times now.
Cameron Diaz. I’ve only ever seen two interviews with CD and in both of them she was simpering on about how hard some appearance or other was for her because she’s, like, so shy and giving that award was tough because she’s, like, so shy and I just don’t freaking care how shy she thinks she is, she chose a job that puts her in the public eye and she should just get on with it and STFU about how she’s, like, so shy because I don’t care!!
Or something.
In his partial defense, some close to Sinatra claim it wasn’t really his choice that he was photographed with mobsters. It’s not easy to turn down a ‘made guy’ whose nightclub you’re playing in.
Is it unrelated to a the body of work when you’ve only seen a smidgen of it but that tiny bit makes you angry-super-crazy-hate the person?
If thats the case I hate Will Ferrell.
Oh, and Seth McFarlane. Both of those guys are as funny as dead baby.
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What a charming, charming man. I’m amazed his mother didn’t drown him at birth.
Jim? Or are you either Todd or Scott? 
I was the kid who skipped school each year for opening day at the brand new 3 Rivers Stadium.
I never enjoyed Mark Wahlberg as an actor or “musician.” He’s a piece of wood. But after reading his Wikipedia profile I actively dislike him. I can’t believe he got an Oscar nomination for his one-dimensional role in The Departed.
How is it that he permanently blinded a Vietnamese man in one eye and only served 45 days in jail? I hope the little piece of shit never gets another role.
Roman Polanski drugged and ass-raped a 13 year old. He’s a sex-crime fugitve. How on Gods green earth does Hollywood award him with an Oscar? Some think that the art is the only consideration and I generally agree. I’d have no problem with the Oscar if he had served his sentence, but honoring him in any way crosses a line I just can’t stomach.
I feel the same way about him, but was really surprised by his performance in Stranger Than Fiction. Ren it sometime. Not that you’ll hate Will Ferrell any less when he does his goofball Adam Sandler schtick, but it shouldn’t prevent you from enjoying this particular movie.
Yeah, I took off on all three World Series day games and also went to the night game (one of the first, wasn’t it?) that year. Didn’t see the opening day at the new stadium, but I did catch quite a few games for the next couple of years there.
Good times, good times.
Mel Gibson - I hated him before it was cool. He’s a talented director tho and i have no problem watching his movies (not a fan of Passion)
Tom Cruise - if he would just shut up about the Scientology crap it’d be all good. It’s a real shame because I have a few friends who have worked with him and they all say he’s great. I’m not a fan of Kirstie Alley, Kelly Preston, or John Travolta either but they are far less vocal. As far as the rest of the Scientologists go, it’s just disappointing for me more than anything else.
Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins - I AGREE with them and I wish they’d shut up.
Charlton Heston - it’s the whole NRA thing. I don’t want to turn it into a whole thing so we’ll just leave it at that.
Kirk Cameron - I don’t really have to explain this one, do I?
Stephen Baldwin - friends have worked with him as well. His opinion of himself is far too high. Plus there’s the whole religious whackjobery.
Madonna - I used to have a HUGE crush on her but the whole Kaballa thing killed it.
Well, I can’t say I hate him “for reasons completely unrelated to (his) body of work.”
I worked at a music club back in the 70’s. Heard some great music. But Ted Nugent played two nights!
Dreadful, hackneyed crap. Not worth the tinnitus.
That’s got to be the most poorly-written and popup-ridden pieces of journalism I’ve ever seen. Still, that makes a lot more sense than the political opinions thing.
A little bitter, are we?