I remember reading an article back in the '80s (but I can find no cite online) with Linda Lee, widow of Bruce Lee. She claimed Steven Seagal crashed Bruce’s funeral and posed for every camera that was present.
Now, mind you, Linda said she had never met Seagal, nor had her husband, yet he presented himself as a “good friend” of Mr. Lee. Linda was aghast that this poseur would use her husband’s funeral to get his picture in magazines. She hated him. So do I.
Why, Ned Beatty , of course. Squeeeeeeeeeeee!
It’s probably based on the George Hodel book. If memory serves (It’s been a few years since I read it) but Man Ray’s work was more cited as an inspiration for the murder and the other similar murders. I don’t think the popular theory is that Man Ray was invovled directly.
This is very unlikely. Madonna often has close contact with sweaty dancers during her performances. It was either made up out of whole cloth, or it is the bastard child of the TRUE story that she has a new toilet seat installed, and then removed and destroyed, at the arenas where she performs. It might seem that she is germ-phobic, but it’s really because she doesn’t want anyone selling them on ebay.
Madonna has a lot of peccadilloes and neuroses to her name, but germphobia is not one of them.
My contribution to this thread is not about Madonna’s creepiness, but the creepiness of a reporter who pretended to be a nurse so that he could confirm she had terminated a pregnancy. That phone call changed the way Madonna handled lines of communication in and out of her houses, forever.
Or maybe he just heard that old joke, “WASPs – the only ethnic group that gets outta the shower to go to the toilet!” and misunderstood it.
I don’t have any personal anecdotes, but thanks to this very thread I found something that didn’t exactly creep me out, but it certainly made my eyes roll so hard I thought they would pop out of my head.
I was reading the Weird Al Wiki entry because I had forgotten how his parents died. Buried in the entry is a recounting of people who have refused to allow parodies of their songs. In that section I came across this:
Oh please . . . !
Um, isn’t Wierd Al also a vegitarian? Strange.
He did “Chicken Pot Pie” when I saw him. Guess he wasn’t recording that show. 
Yes he is, but Al has a sense of humor it would seem.
dnooman, I have a Billy Corgan story, as well…I saw him at a concert at Metro in Chicago about 10 years ago…I was standing right next to him, in fact. He was with a group of friends, and was pretty famous by that time, so I didn’t say anything to him. It’s funny, though, that was the same night I met my husband for the first time, so I like to tease him about how I always remember that one concert, because it was the night I ran into Billy Corgan! 
Tiny Tim is the quintessential celebrity bacteriophobe. I heard an interview with him where he explains why he uses adult diapers instead of underwear because they’re ‘more hygienic’ and doesn’t (didn’t, he’s tiptoeing through celestial tulips, now) bathe or shower, prefering to swab himself all over with handi-wipes.
Thanks for this. Brendan Fraser always comes across to me as a really cool guy. It’s good to hear he’s like that in person, too.
My dad likes to tell of the time he was on an airplane with Richard Simmons who proceeded to call him and his buddy a fatty. Not creepy, really, aside from it being Richard Simmons. Only contribution I’ve got, though.
I’ve been inside Metro exactly once, and I happened to be standing next to two of the guys from Urge Overkill. Hip place I guess.
Michael Stipe once glared at me in a hotel lobby as I was walking through. Didn’t know who he was, and didn’t pay him any special mind until he started glaring. So I glared back, telepathically conveying, “what’s YOUR problem, dude?”
The next night a friend took me along to see REM in concert, and I saw it was the same guy.
Charles Bronson had a home in rural Vermont to get away from Hollywood. Yet, whenever he went anywhere, he expected star treatment. If in a restaurant, he’d walk to the front of the line. If questioned, he’d say, “I’m Charles Bronson.” If shopping in a store, he’d get mad if sales people didn’t ignore everyone else in the store for a chance to wait on him. On many occasions he found that people already in line or people already waiting on customers really didn’t care who he was.
Hey, I ran into Billy Corgan once at Metro, too! Literally. Tripped and fell, and landed in Billy Corgan’s lap. :smack: Très embarrassing.
Mike Mills. Not Michael Stipe.
Actually, Stipe is why I added the “groupies” to my description, since all I’d heard about him was that he was a horndog, without reference to what gender he was hitting on (albeit not as big as Mills). Though, IIRC, Stipe’s actually bi-sexual, and has admitted as much in print (there was an interview with him in Details magazine around the time of Automatic for the People). And if you’ve heard any of their early shows (from 1980, before they were signed) he definitely sang about women as love and sex objects (adding lines like “She’s getting down on her knees/she’s taking off my pants” to “There She Goes Again”).
Well, George Michael sang:
"Girl
I just work for you.
They told me marriage was a give and take
Well
you’ve shown me you can take
you’ve got some giving to do.
And now you tell me that you’re having my baby"
Preeeety sure he’s a gay man. So, lyrics don’t always speak the truth, nor are they necessarily about the person singing them.
True, but I can back up the comment about Stipe being bisexual.
I mean, not from personal experience or anything, but I’ve seen him say that in interviews, too, as recently as a couple years ago.
