True, Smith’s increased drug use is not exactly a good thing, but the man seems happy and Rogen likely wasn’t an asshole about it.
See my previous comment in this thread about Eric Idle - he’s very cutthroat showbiz in his outlook. Funny but not genuinely nice at all.
I am not even convinced he’s actually funny anymore, let alone nice.
I am a big fan of Monty Python, (at least the feature films) and Eric Idle may be my favorite member of the troupe, but as far as i can tell, his “career” post-Python is absolutely embarrassing to watch; SUDDENLY fucking SUSAN, Eric?!?
(and yes, I understand—It was a paycheck, and the man needs to eat, and who the hell am I to judge, blah blah blah, but Oh Sweet Mary, How The Mighty Have Fallen…)
I guess the change in his pocket just wasn’t enough.
He gets points for the Rutles.
During the 1980s Buscemi was a New York City firefighter for a brief period of time and he essentially thought that was going to be his career, while he was involved in acting it wasn’t to any degree where he thought it was going to work out as a full time vocation.
In the aftermath of 9/11 Buscemi went back to the same department he had worked at in the 1980s and worked several 12 hour shifts at Ground Zero, and refused any publicity shots or notoriety during it. The only time he posed for any photos were when he had finished up he posed with the firefighters he had worked with because they wanted pictures with him.
I heard about that, too. Buscemi could be as unfriendly as he wants and I think he’d still deserve a place on the “good guy” list.
One meeting doesn’t tell you much. My experience with Lindsay Lohan gave me every indication that she was a remarkably pleasant, friendly, and classy young lady for someone whose star power had exploded all over the world at the age of 18/19.
As it turns out my first impression was not wholly accurate.
By his own admission on one of his more recent podcasts, Kevin Smith apparently spends most of his time now smoking pot and playing with his Fleshlight collection. He does seem happy though.
I’m sort of curious about the posters who have mentioned Bill Gates…are we talking about his behavior while he was at Microsoft, or was it something he’s done as part of his charity work? (I personally enjoyed his smackdown of Jenny McCarthy.)
I would be very depressed if any of the on-screen MST3K crew turned out to be douchebags. The format of the show always made them feel more like a bunch of guys you hang out with for a couple of hours a week, rather than a cast. I’d feel oddly (and inappropriately, it IS just a show) betrayed if it turned out they were jerks faking it.
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That sounds kind of pathetic written out, but you know what I mean.
FWIW, I’ve heard lots of stories of Gates being insulting and abusive with people at Microsoft. Same with Steve Jobs. Oddly, they seem able to get the most out of their employees that way. And Gates famously cut short an interview by Connie Chung after she asked about claims that competing with Microsoft was like being in a knife fight. I’ve never heard anything negative about Gates with regard to his charitable work, but if he has found that being an asshole gets results then I would expect that he’s an asshole when necessary in his charitable work too.
Oh…nothing too surprising then. (Now that I think about it, that behavior sounds a lot like two of the managers at my workplace. They have little to no turnover within their departments.)
Tom Brady. Yes, I realize that many Pats haters think he’s a whiny little bitch on the field, but that’s different from being a raging asshole off the field. If it ever turned out that he committed some kind of serious crime or something (like, an actual felony, not kvetching for a phantom roughing call), I would be totally devastated.
Generally I try to stay away from reading too many things about public figures I care about. I used to love Johnny Damon. Then I read his book. And it turned out he was a self-absorbed, arrogant, drooling moron of a serial adulterer. Now I loathe him. It was a really unpleasant loss of naivete.
Link? Cite? She seems really down to earth when on talk shows and such…maybe she doesn’t come across as well when it’s just the written word? It is certainly easy to be misunderstood without the context and nuance of voice and the back and forth of a conversation…
Hmm… Bobby McFerrin, maybe? Not that I’m that invested in whether he’s a jerk or not, I’d just be really shocked if he were.
Well, his vaunted give so much of his wealth to burgoning businesshumans trying to start up and better themselves is for everybody outside the US. I guess we can go on welfare if we can’t get a bank loan for our business idea.
Alan Alda. Politics aside, Alda always impressed me as one of the few celebrities I’d like as a buddy: sharp, but gentle humor; an explosive laugher; exceptionally charitable; didn’t “go Hollywood”/stuck to simple Jersey roots; overcame adversities (Polio, Mother’s Schizophrenia); intelligent/scientifically inquisitive (obvious during stint as host of Scientific American Frontiers); scandal-free; not afraid to occasionally wear emotions on sleeve…just an all-around good guy.
Casey Kasem. Oh, wait . . .
(just goes to show you never know based on their public image).
My brother and I created a choral score for one of his lesser-known songs once, and in the process of obtaining the appropriate permissions to perform it, my brother was contacted by Bobby personally. He was in fact delightful, and very interested in how we’d handled that particular song technically.
It’s the only interaction I’ve had, and secondhand at that, but I’d be pretty surprised, too.
I’d be surprised if Morgan Freeman turned out to be an A-hole.