# What did youfind out about an artist/author that changed your veiw of his/her work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699 "2005-08-19T02:28:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699/41 "2005-08-22T21:27:29Z")
I used to be a huge fan of Jon Favreau, but a few years ago he made a homophobic “joke” in an interview (on TV). It wouldn’t have been so bad if he’d just apologized or said that he misspoke or something, but instead he got defensive about it (on the _Dinner for Five_ message board). I’m still a fan, but I can’t watch _D45_ episodes the same way anymore. ☹ (A bunch of people on that board got very weird about the whole thing . . . I haven’t been there since.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699/42 "2005-08-22T22:01:12Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I’d say Anne Rice. After she put up a rant about fan fiction and started attacking fansites, I thought she was a really defensive person. > > Then the Amazon review of Blackwood Farm (? It was one of the last two books she wrote in the VC, don’t remember which one) came out, where she went off the handle on how she didn’t need an editor and blah blah blah and then wanting to do a book on Jesus just makes me think she’s a bit kooky or something. While I agree the WAY she went off on fan fic authors was over the top, technically, she was in the right-she doesn’t have to allow fan fic if she doesn’t want to. Most authors just ignore it, but some have had bad experiences (Marion Zimmer Bradley had to shelve a long-awaited novel in a series because she was sued by a fan fic author who claimed plagarism). The Amazon reviewing-oy, was that bad. Talking about her “proletarian soul” and how her “dickensian principals were stretched to the maxx,” or something like that. She gave her address and told people if they wanted a refund, to send her the book and she’d give it to them-and she swore she was serious. Those who took her at her word had their books returned to them, unopened marked, “Return to Sender”. It turns out the address she had given was that of the house she had recently sold. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699/43 "2005-08-22T23:22:19Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > I met Ray Bradbury about ten years ago, and discovered that he was a Republican asshole. I’ve found it hard to take anything he’s written seriously since. I didn’t know he was a Republican, but I heard him speak once at a Planetary Society meeting and boy, what a pantload. He got beaten up one too many times on the playground. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699/44 "2005-08-23T14:06:29Z")
I was unable to respect [Allen Ginsberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg) due to his affiliation with NAMBLA. While I’m not a huge fan of John Wayne movies to begin with (except the ones with Maureen O’Hara), reading his Playboy Interview was jaw dropping. (He didn’t think blacks or women should be allowed to vote- and this was in the late 1960s!) I’d always thought of Bill Maher as an egomaniacal but harmless TV talking head (I didn’t like him), but when he began telling audience members not to innoculate their children (and even working it into his standup) I thought he crossed a line. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-youfind-out-about-an-artist-author-that-changed-your-veiw-of-his-her-work/317699.md?page=2)