I refuse to watch any movies made by Roman Polanski because I do not support rapists. I don’t care how good “The Pianist” or “Rosemary’s Baby” are supposed to be, I’ll watch them after he dies and can no longer profit from them.
For many of the same reasons, I refuse to listen to R. Kelly, buy his CDs, or watch his music videos. A friend of mine owned a CD of his that she snapped in half when she learned of him raping that twelve-year-old girl.
I met Barbra Streisand at a test screening of one of her movies long ago. It was showing at a theatre I used to work at, and I knew the manger and she got me in. Streisand treated my friend the manager like total dirt and it really bugged me. I wouldn’t say I boycott her work, but I shy away from anything she’s in.
O.J. Simpson has really wrecked the Police Squad movies.
Jane Fonda. Funny, I wasn’t even old enough to remember her actions but as soon as I was old enough to understand the extreme immorality of what she did I didn’t like her. I have never seen a movie she was in. Once I remember the curious situation where she was in a move with Robert Deniro, and I had seen all of his movies, and I was torn between the track record of no Jane and all Bobby. Didn’t see it. In fact, by extension I was kindof down on Ted Turner when he married her, but I didn’t boycott CNN or anything.
Besides a few of the others mentioned here, I’ve been mad at Matthew Broderick since the 80’s. I saw him quoted as (something along the lines of) being relieved and pleased at the tiny fine he had to pay for the car accident that killed two people, and that was that. If anyone can give me solid information that he has been guilt-ridden for the past 15 years or so, possibly that he gave an organ to someone or something, I am willing to reconsider.
Also the usual Roman Polanski, etc., and rappers that objectify women.
Well, according to this story (warning: popups) Broderick “is planning to apologise in person when he visits Ireland with his family this summer (03).” The family of those killed have forgiven him, and i found no indication (after looking through a half-dozen or so stories) that he was unconcerned or dismissive over the whole incident. Broderick himself apparently “spent weeks in hospital with injuries.”
Leave us not give Ahnold too much credit. He’s not making California look like a fool all by himself, y’know!
Personally, I don’t separate the artist from the art. If I can’t respect them, I don’t want to watch them (or their work) and I certainly don’t want to give them my money. My list:
Elia Kazan
Roman Polanski
Woody Allen
Michael Jackson
Interesting how everyone’s still so livid over Polanski, after Hollywood has (apparently) forgiven him, and his victim has also gone on record saying she forgives him and wants the whole thing to blow over. (Unless it was all a setup to have him show up at the Academy Awards ceremony so the LAPD could escort him away in handcuffs…)
And wasn’t Woody Allen falsely accused by his bitter ex-wife Mia Farrow? Bitter ex-wives lie all the time, and nothing was ever proven IIRC.
astro – Sean Penn only tied up Madonna, he didn’t beat her (or if he did, I never heard about that part.) I worked security at the gated community where the incident took place, and heard most of the “gory details” from the Malibu Sheriff’s Dept., who were tight with. I think I might have the actual newspaper article on file somewhere around here. So yeah, it happened. But even if my mind did make all that up, I’d still hate him. He’s such a fucktard.
Danny Masterson, who plays Hyde.
Laurie Prepon might be, since she’s dating Masterson’s younger brother, who is also a Scientologist.
I made a point of not watching John Landis films a while back.
I read a book about the Twilight Zone incident that painted a rather unpleasant picture of Mr. Landis.
For those not in the know: during the filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” in the segment filmed by John Landis, a helicopter crashed on top of actor Vic Morrow and two children he was carrying. Morrow and the two children were killed instantly.
The book does quite a job of portraying Landis as a hubris-ridden young director, puffed up with the success of his film “Animal House,” and gleeful about his association with rising star Steven Spielberg in the Twilight Zone movie… and far more concerned with getting a take than with the safety of his actors and crew. The book doesn’t portray him as vicious or unfeeling… but it does make it seem like Landis simply had no clue that blowing things up, flying helicopters through explosions, or having people walk on ledges three stories up can result in bodily harm.
Since then, I’ve found that not only are most of Landis’ films after “Trading Places” kind of lame… but after reading the book, I just don’t have much taste for the man’s work.
It’s interesting, to put it mildly, that two people in this thread are assuming that Tom Sizemore and R. Kelly are guilty of the charges against them. Why bother with legal process?
Jackson Browne was never charged, much less convicted, of assaulting Darryl Hannah.
To those who have a beef with director Elia Kazan for “ratting” on people before the House committee in 1952: Besides his testimony before the HUAC, he published a notice in the New York Times that stated the following:
"They [the Communist Party] attempted to control thought and to suppress personal opinion. They tried to dictate personal conduct. They habitually distorted and disregarded and violated the truth.
"I was also held back by a piece of specious reasoning which has silenced many liberals. It goes like this: ‘You may hate the Communists, but you must not attack them or expose them, because if you do you are attacking the right to uphold unpopular opinions and you are joining the people who attack civil liberties.’
"[W]e must never let the Communists get away with the pretense that they stand for the very things which they kill in their own countries. I am talking about free speech, a free press, the rights of property, … and, above all, individual rights.
“Liberals must speak out.”
Two years later Kazan directed On the Waterfront, about a corrupt union. His colleagues, who knew both him and the times better than any of us today do, gave him the Academy Award for his direction. The following year they nominated him again for East of Eden. Why do we assume we occupy a higher moral ground than they did?
Walloon, the article I linked to said:
There you go.
Woody Allen. Two words: ‘Pretentious Crap’.
Unwatchable under any circumstances.
I’ll never be able to see ANTZ because he is a member of the voice cast. Not that I ever wanted to see ANTZ, mind you.