Does his love pump go to 11?
Madonna pees in the shower? Um, don’t lots of people do that? Or is there something I’m missing?
Richard Pryor- on fire.
Robin Williams- ditched his wife for the nanny.
Eddie Murphy- trans hooker.
Burt Reynolds- Playgirl centerfold (very nice package!).
Chris Brown - Abuser
Gabriel Byrne admitted in a recent biographical documentary that he used to do something like that, check into a hotel, unplug the phone, and drink himself into a stupor over the span of a few days. He didn’t mention doing it naked/in the tub, though.
While we’re covering Irish actors:
Colin Farrell - Sex tape. Addiction problems.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Addiction problems.
Pierce Brosnan - Did a musical but can’t sing.
Cillian Murphy - Nearly stole Glen Hansard’s Oscar.
And speaking of musicals…
Kristin Chenoweth - had some guy decide to gratify himself during one of her solos in a performance of “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” in which she played Sally Brown, who is a first grader. (The guy was dragged out by security.):eek:
Idina Menzel & Taye Diggs - Received death threats over their interracial marriage in New York City in 2003. :eek::eek:
And in the world of theatre…
Billy Crudup - Walked out on Mary Louise Parker when she was 7 months pregnant with his child, in order to shack up with Claire Danes.
Mary Louise Parker - Has a thing for hooking up with co-stars. (See also, notably: Julia Roberts, Melanie Griffith, Reese Witherspoon.)
Matthew McConaghey–thinks he is going to bury his child’s placenta under a tree. (Actually, it will just sit in his freezer for 6 years or so, because that’s one of those things you always mean to get around to…)
Bill Wyman was married to young Mandy Smith. Bill’s son Stephen was engaged to Mandy’s mother. If they had married, Mrs. Smith the Elder would have been Mandy’s mother AND daughter in law. (there are a couple more permutations, but my brain can’t process them).
The fashion house, Hugo Boss, designed uniforms for the Nazi Party in WWII.
Matthew McConaghey not only plays bongos naked, but plays bongos naked in the presence of male friends, possibly making him a gay naked bongo player.
Jerome Robbins–One of the nasiest people to ever work on Broadway. Could reduce anyone to tears. He was so bad that once when he was on stage and lambasting the West Side Story cast, he slowly backed away from them and fell into the orchestra pit because nobody said “Look behind you.”
Good thing he was so exceptional at what he did.
Matthew McConaghey: Not a rumour per se, but he told a story on some Late Night show about his goat having sex. It was gross. I was physically revolted, and can’t think of him in any other context now.
Arrr?!?
Bing Crosby: Beat his kids
John Kennedy, Billy Bob Thornton, Desi Arnaz: Sick sex, crazy mean to women.
Little Richard: tied a woman up and raped her for days - in cooperation with his girlfriend. Ewwwww!
Woody Harrelson: Tried to start rumors that he had tantric sex like Sting. . . Overall Sting wannabe.
Are you sure you don’t mean Rick James? I have my doubts that Little Richard ever had a girlfriend…
(Bolding mine) - Little Richard is waaaay gay and one of the first “out” entertainers. I don’t believe this. Not even a little bit. And not because he’s gay, but because I’ve never heard a bad word about him. Do you have a link?
One of my favorite celebrity talk show stories was when George Clooney, who famously owned a Vietnamese potbelly pig for a while and who had a male houseguest and who apparently sleeps in the nude as did the houseguest, told about the night a fire started in the house and he was terrified of the headlines reading “Hollywood celebrity and male friend, both naked, seen chasing pig”.
The gossip that comes to mind for me- even though Woody has absolutely nothing whatever to do with it but it’s still Pavlovian reflex- is his dad was one of the leading suspects of conspiracy theorists in “the real” JFK assassination.
Assorted:
James Baldwin (the author)- kleptomaniac (according to Richard Burton’s diaries; he said nobody could leave cash or personal effects around when Baldwin was a houseguest as they’d come up missing, even things that Baldwin had no use for- more neurosis than thievery was the implication)
Gore Vidal- provocateur drama queen who claims to have a 60 year old daughter he takes no interest in because he gave her mother money to have an abortion (which if true is just a crappy admission).
George Washington- the father of incredible expense account padding
Warren Harding- banged his mistress in a White House closet during a party
RFK- I don’t believe I’ve ever once read a positive thing about him from anyone who knew him (on the personal level, not talking politics)
My favorite George Clooney story (and the one I always think of) is when he had a roommate, and the roommate had a cat. The roommate was worried because the cat was constipated. Every day the roommate would talk about the constipated cat. Finally, Clooney took it upon himself to take a dump in the litter box. Needless to say it freaked the roommate right out.
Drew Barrymore - alcoholic coke addict before she hit puberty
Shirley MacLaine- the things that always come to mind are her book about her dog being the reincarnation of Anubis (it was $1.00 in a discount bin when I saw it and thought "damn… did you forget you had a book due to the publishers the next day and just wrote something down for four hours?') and the fact that Anthony Hopkins (capable of prima donna hissy fits himself) referred to her as the single most obnoxious and unprofessional co-star he ever had and the only one he’d never work with again.
Val Kilmer- evidently another “would be in a padded room if not rich” candidate who people tend to work with once
Bill O’Reilly- confused the words falafel and loofa
and his archenemy
Al Franken- recovering cokehead
Dennis Miller- whining sellout (blames the fact he’s not seen as funny anymore on his politics rather than the fact he’s not funny anymore)
Melissa Gilbert- said to be (by people I know who have interacted with her) one of the world’s true bitches
Michael Landon- became a lot more popular after he died but described by former domestic employees and some co-stars as a thoroughly obnoxious skirtchaser
Mr. Rogers- by all accounts exactly the same in real life as he was on camera and almost impossible to disturb
My Little Richard Pavlovian response is:
Closeted, bearded, self-loathing (multitalented founding father of Rock & Roll)homosexual “cured” by religion.
What’s great about this is that either way the sentence gets mangled, it’s comedy gold.
Erin Moran- (Joanie from Happy Days)- anybody who saw her on Celebrity Fit Camp will have a Pavlovian “damn that woman’s crazy!” meme to accompany her.
And then Dustin Diamond- he just needs to be put out of everybody’s misery including his own.
Nancy Grace- pathological liar about her past “achievements” (detailed in her wiki).
Jennifer Love Hewitt- gossip sources imply she’s shagged every straight man in Hollywood and makes Jessica Simpson look like a Nobel candidate.
Keith Richards snorted his father’s ashes.
Steven Seagal: pathological lair, slapped Kelly LeBrock because he was jealous of her fame eclipsing his.
Tom Sizemore: drug addict
Tom Sizemore- Whizzinator