Bruce Springsteen
My husband is a fan of Jimmy Stewart, and he started reading some biographies. He says that Stewart comes off as being something of a son of a bitch in all of them, especially as regards racism.
But I didn’t read the books, and I don’t know how accurate the books are, so find salt. Take grains.
Just like good 'ol Hal Briston.
::d&r::
Fred Astaire.
Bit of a perfectionist on the set – but a total gent on and off, from what I’ve heard.
Fred Rogers was a major hero to my home town. When he died, and Fred Phelps came to picket his funeral, instead of people screaming at them, I heard they merely stood around the Phelps clan and sang Mister Rogers’s songs. How cool is that?
Uh, local sports heros-how about Jerome Bettis? Here was a guy who had some major opportunities to go and party and get hookers and blow after every game. Yet instead he brings his parents to every football game, is kind, polite, and friendly to fans, and gives back his community, big time.
I have to disagree with Michael Moore-remember that big stink he threw when a book store signing at a school went over time, and because their permit expired, he had to stop and the threw a big hissyfit? Never mind the employees who had to work over time to clean up and wanted to go home to their families. So much for caring about the little guy.
No, I never heard that story, but it’s not so bad the way you tell it – remember, the “little guy” also includes the people who had been waiting in line for hours to get their books signed.
Victor Garber is very gracious and friendly to fans, a gentleman.
Robot Arm, you may not want to read about what Danny Kaye was really like (but there’s the link anyway 
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So it’s okay to make the people who organized the event have to pay fines for going over time, to make the janitor work extra, and miss seeing his family?
The people in line can always go home if they get tired of waiting-the staff has no such option.
Everything I’ve heard about Michael Moore is that he is rude and unfriendly.
Why did fred phelps want to picket Roger’s funeral?
I’m gonna go with “because Fred Phelps is crazier than a shithouse rat.”
Supposedly because Mister Rogers never warned kids about the evils of “Teh Gay!”
Oh, and what Eve said.
Maybe Fred was picketing Fred because Mr. Roger’s puppets are so damn scary.
Also, Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. Anything that conflicts with Westboro Baptist is automatically wrong.
Janet Jackson. I met her once and she was a kind and gentle person.
Based on all the accounts I’ve read, Al Yankovic is a pretty darned decent human being.
Of course, when we say “I’ve never heard a bad word about so-and-so,” that doesn’t prove much. I mean, during his playing career, I never heard a single bad word about Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins. Indeed, the press fawned over him, treating him as a latter day saint. We now know Kirby was NOT the wonderful human being the media told us about.
We also have the probelm of deciding what disqualifies us from the “good celebrity” list. If I’m a complete professional on the set, a fine actor, a supporter of good causes, but a cheating husband, am I off the list? Do multiple divorces disqualify me? It gets complicated. I mean, David Niven was, by all acounts, a major lush. He was also a hero who left Hollywood of his own accord to rejoin the British Army in 1939. So is Niven a “good” or “bad” celebrity?
[shrug] Peter Lorre was a noted prankster, married three times, and occasionally addicted to morphine, but everybody who knew him seems to have liked him.
Right, it depends how much you value faithfulness in marriage in whether someone is a nice person. He cheated on his first wife, take it for what you will.
As did Paul Newman, who cheated openly with Joanne Woodward and now brags about being faithful to her.
As Walloon’s link probably shows (I only glanced at it), Danny Kaye was a royal prick IRL. Or so I’ve heard. Sorry to burst your bubble, RA.
Some of the reviews of that book claimed that the book was an unsubstantiated hatchet job, though.