Nope, I separate art and artist.
I think Amy Adams should do a movie with full frontal nudity to establish that she’s no longer LDS.
Serious answer: If the thing I don’t like about an artist is obvious in the art, I wouldn’t like it anyway. If their talent is sufficient to allow them to create an illusion that is different from what I don’t like about them, I’ll buy/watch/listen/read.
Don’t forget Jon Heder (LDS).
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a-HA!! THAT explains the constant* anti-psychological drugs stoopidity in Simpsons.
Thanks! I suspected, but never knew.
*Well, repeated, at least-there’s at least 3 episodes
Here’s a robocall she did on behalf of scientology using Bart’s voice in parts.
Agreed on both of these, except it’s much harder walking away from Salva since I love all horror movies. But Cruise lost any support I might give him after that debacle with Brooke Shields. Idiot. Other than those two, I also skip the anti-semitic Gibson and anti-vac McCarthy (although that’s not hard – I wouldn’t watch stuff with her in it regardless).
Did you listen to Megadeth before Dave Mustaine was born again?
Scientologists picket mental health facilities? 
That’s what I came in to say. However, if he had ever been a favorite author and not just “okay in a pinch”, I might still read him. That’s why I don’t dig too deeply into the private lives of artists I really, really like. I don’t want to know.
TV and movies are different – there are many people involved besides the main actor or director, so boycotting them also boycotts the best boy, key grip, caterer, etc. I make an exception for anything Patricia Heaton is involved in though, or Anne Heche. I guess my principles are a bit flabby, but there ya go.
What did THEY do?
Ted Nugent. Of course, there are people that will respond that Cat Scratch Fever is not art, but until Ted turned right wing looney, it was among my favorite road trip songs.
It was made in 1931, before Hitler rose to power, so that particular film is not tainted by association with the Nazis. She really was a brilliant director.
See, and now funnily enough, I don’t have as much of an issue with the right wing looney thing as I do with the fact that he took legal guardianship of a sixteen year old so he could bring her along and fuck her regularly while he was on tour.
Still wouldn’t boycott his music, but since I never bought his music anyway, it’s kind of a wash.
Nothing that bad, really. Anne Heche because I see her as an opportunist, because of her relationship with Ellen. I could be wrong but it seemed to me like Heche used her – that she was just playing. Heaton – it’s not her politics as much as the way she comes across – inflexible, judgmental, your opinion isn’t worth as much as hers.
Ha… I’ve got a third reason for disliking Ted Nugent (and I’ve never bought any of his records but I do like his music) - he talked smack about late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott after his death, even though Abbott described himself as a huge fan.
And yet, I can’t bring myself to watch anything she’s associated with. I appreciate she was brilliant, but I can’t take any enjoyment from her work.
OSC is the closest I’ve come to boycotting an artist. Even then, it’s not so much a political statement, as it is that, having read his defense of his homophobia, I’ve lost any respect I had for him as an thinking person. If he just said, “God says it’s a sin, so I’m opposed,” I could deal with it. But instead he tries to come up with these secular reasons for hating gays that are just so idiotic, it makes my teeth hurt. Now when I read anything by him, I can’t stop thinking, “This guy’s a moron,” and it colors whatever I’m reading.
This is my feeling as well, exactly. “Boycott” implies a level of conscious outraged avoidance that doesn’t really enter in to it. It’s not like I think Polanski or Allen give a shit if I personally buy a ticket to their movie or not. But I’d just prefer to spend my money and time elsewhere. And for me it’s Polanski, Allen, Cruise, and Mel Gibson. It’s not outrage, it’s just that their personal choices intrude on my consciousness too far to allow me to lose myself in their entertainment vehicles. FWIW, I can’t watch re-runs of Hogan’s Heroes without thinking about how Bob Crane died. Same sort of deal here.
Yes, I did. Loved ‘em. I thought Mustaine wrote brilliant lyrics. Not many metal bands write lyrics with that degree of depth. My friends and I considered Megadeth to be the Intellectuals’ Headbanging Band. :rolleyes: Okay, we were drunk when we declared that, but yes. I listened to Megadeth before the Mustaine conversion.
And I almost had to boycott Tool because the singer, Maynard James Keenan announced that he had also become a born again Christian. Then it turned out he was just pranking us for April Fool’s. Heh. 
I understand. I have a category of art that one enjoys while holding one’s nose. A huge amount of pre-WWII popular culture had a level of casual racism that is appalling to modern sensibilities - Windsor McKay’s “Little Nemo in Slumberland” is the most astounding comic ever drawn; but the depiction of Africans as cannibals with giant lips and eyes is equally astounding.
I’m a conservative and I don’t mind when people disagree. But I do object to stupid and hateful actions. But if I were to boycott everyone who made a stupid, hateful leftist remark, I wouldn’t be able to go many movies or concerts.
So I don’t think I boycott any artists.
OK, maybe Vanessa Redgrave for her support of the PLO.