# Undeniably talented artists/performers who are also, undeniably, horrible people. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undeniably-talented-artists-performers-who-are-also-undeniably-horrible-people/708283 "2014-12-27T16:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undeniably-talented-artists-performers-who-are-also-undeniably-horrible-people/708283/25 "2014-12-27T17:20:44Z")
Joe DiMaggio was a self-centered, controlling jerk. Among many other things, he had an outspoken loathing for Simon and Garfunkel because of the line in “Mrs. Robinson,” which he took as a dismissal of him and his career. It was very late in his life that someone finally convinced him it was a mournful longing for the days when he was the greatest player in the game. I have heard that Christopher Reeve was a real jerk to everyone who served him in any way, or was “beneath” him on the pecking order. He only became a saint after his accident. Tobey Maguire turned into an egotistical snot when he got the lead in Spiderman - too good to acknowledge fans or give autographs, even in appropriate settings. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undeniably-talented-artists-performers-who-are-also-undeniably-horrible-people/708283)._