Chuck Berry’s scat fetish allegations.
Moviexec Don Simpson’s alleged penchant for opening up the whoopass in intimate situations. He supposedly couldn’t get off without tears.
I’ll agree on the polite part, but thats just common courtesy. The signing your name 20 times everywhere you go is pointless. And it’s not like people go to movies to do the stars a kindness, they go for selfish reasons. You don’t owe anybody who you benefit from in that manner.
Somewhere, at some time, I read that John Cusack had/has a thing for licking women’s armpits. In a way, I hope this is true, or else I’ve been disturbed by him for years all for naught.
In the summer of 1990, I read an interview in US Magazine with Stevie Nicks in which she described the way Lindsey Buckingham made fun of her for not wanting to take off her shirt when they were shooting the cover of their (pre-Fleetwood Mac) Buckingham/Nicks album. Since then, he’s skeeved me out. I know he was in his early twenties then and now he’s got to be around 60 now, and I’m sure he’s changed in many ways, but whenever I listen to Fleetwood Mac, I remember that anecdote and think, “Asshole!”
My aunt used to work at the Hotel St. Regis in Detroit, and she said of all the celebrities who stayed there, the nicest was always James Garner. Pleasant, easy to deal with, polite.
StG
I know he was ruled to not be at fault, but Matthew Broderick killing those two people in a car crash is in the front of my head when I see him in anything now.
“It’s Raining Men” was co-written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979, when Shaffer had hair and looked more like Elton John crossed with Paul Anka, than Bat Boy.
I met Michael Gross (Family Ties) on a cruise once. He was a dick, and I can’t watch Tremors without hating him.
Supposedly Steve Martin is a bit of an ass to people by handing out cards to them saying that they had a conversation, yet famously won’t sign autographs…
I can’t watch Entourage because I know that Jeremy Piven is a dickhead
I can’t watch Scrubs 
after finding out how Zach Braff has dealt with fame…
I really need to stop worry about that stuff…I suppose the best thing is to give them more latitude since they’re probably under a lot of stress…
What’s he done?
I heard about him being an evil bastard to some poor waitress at an Aspen restaurant. He tipped her with an Entourage DVD. Screw that guy.
I met Paul Jabara when he did a benefit shortly before he died of AIDS. Openly Gay, he wrote the lyrics to that song, and many other disco hits of the 70’s and 80’s. He was a very nice guy.
Not so nice people:
Christopher Reeves was not only Superman, he was SuperPrickAsshole in real life. Note when he died that few, other than Robin Williams, chimed in to mourn his passing. I have personal stories about him. Most people who knew him and first heard of the horse accident all said, “Karma works”.
Sly Stallone is another prick - he told me to “fuck off” once for reasons that had nothing to do with me, but he just singled me out. I know more about him, and his equally arrogant brother Frank, as well.
Shelly Winters was a bitch on wheels and treated her fans like dirt. Saw one fan leave her in tears simply because she said, “I like your films.” and Shelly ripped her a new one, capped by, “Who gives a damn what you think?”
The good news is that most of the hundreds of celebrities I had the pleasure to briefly work with were very nice people in real life and were quite friendly and nice to their fans and co-workers. Sure, some had some odd quirks (Bea Arthur hates wearing shoes - ever; Patrick Swayze has a compelling need to put his hand on your shoulder when he talks to you; Barbra Streisand always has her dressing room decorated in white and takes pieces of art on tour to display in her room) but most were normal people who liked pizza delivered to their dressing rooms and tipped the delivery guy well. Many of the biggest names in Hollywood are often the nicest people you would ever want to meet. However, beware of the the soap stars (egos the size of Montana) and beware of one-hit wonder film actors and musicians - they still seem to think they are “stars” and pretend to act like one.
Elijah Wood will alway be the little brat who spent years living in Wellington New Zealand, working on some movies or other.
He was always such a polite young lad during interviews - until he got back to the states and boasted about how he screwed the all the girls he could then pissed in a public fountain.
It wasn’t so much the drunken debauchery as the clean and sober pride on his face as he told the story.
*Nasty *little hobbitses!
:dubious:
Hmm… I’m sure what you meant to say was “when the whole nation practically came to a standstill”, because the rest of us, y’know, kinda carried on as normal.
Ted Danza and his disquieting appearance at the Cheers wrap party on the Tonight Show.
That was a classic! (It was Ted Danson, not to be confused with the slimy Tony Danza from Taxi).
The back story: The entire cast was flown to a Boston bar (I don’t believe it was on the Tonight Show, I thought it was a live special to follow the final episode, but I might be wrong there.) but in any case, they had been drinking heavily.
The East Coast viewing had ended and almost the entire cast was blotto. The camera crew did their best, and the interviewers as well, but by that time, it was hopeless - with a good hour left to kill on supposed live interviews with the cast! You could hear the actors bellowing in the background and I think only Rhea Perlman was (fairly) sober enough to speak a few words to the camera. The entire show consisted of “we’ll be talking to them soon” and “stay tuned to hear from the cast” and eventually, at least on the West Coast, the show simply ended without a single word from the rest of the cast.
BTW, I missed it but supposedly the same story happened with Ted Danson and Danny DeVito in NYC a few months ago…they spent the night drinking and Danny DeVito showed up for a daytime talk show (Regis?) and was still half crocked and the press had a field day reporting it.
That was a two-fer! It was The View that DeVito was on, and the next day (or two days later?), Rosie O’Donnell remarked on how widespread the reporting was…and used a racial slur to describe the reporting in China. She was more of an ass sober than DeVito was drunk. Quite a feat.
The king of them all–Lee Majors.
Google for him.
You’ll be stunned by the universal dislike of the man in Hollywood.
I can back this one up. Guy I knew went to a flight school locally that Reeves attended. At the end of the school, the other students had a shirt made that they presented to him. He basically blew them off and grabbed the shirt saying “Thanks, another boat rag.”
Michael Landon leaving his wife to marry someone younger than his stepdaughter.
And both Michael Landon and George & Laura Bush for arranging to adopt a child and then backing off once George’s wife/Michael’s girlfriend got pregnant.
Are you serious?!? What an ass…
I heard Gérard Depardieu sexually assaulted somebody once. Is that true? It kinda ruined his films for me after I heard that.