Not a hijack, but what’s a Stonecutter?
It’s a Simpsons reference.
“Hillary Clinton. Piece of shit, I married the Georgetown guy, maybe I can exploit my position and become famous/rule the world. Please get behind Martha Stewart! We don’t want to know about your views on running the world, raising children, etc.
Crawl back under the rock!!”
Well, no, actually.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wellsley College with Honors '69
Yale University Law School '73
Staff Attorney for Children’s Defense Fund
Staff Attorney for House Judiciary Committee during Nixon impeachment proceedings
Senior Parnter in Rose Law Firm
She was a pretty heavy hitter in her own right before she married “the Georgetown guy” (who was also a Rhodes Scholar - a honor they don’t really just give away in a box of cereal).
Whitney Houston is also Dionne Warwick’s niece, so there’s your nepotism there, too.
While I can agree with lots of these, way too many to tell the truth, I have a few of my own.
Bonnie Hunt - Yes, she’s cute and seems like a nice person in interviews, but I’ve never laughed at anything she has ever said or done. I know Letterman loves her and helped her with her earlier series, Tom Snyder used to fawn all over her when she would come on his show (worse than he would with other favorite guests, IMO). To me she’s the female Dave Barry: a friendly, but mostly bland, personality passing themself off as funny. There’s another one whose career I don’t get, that goofball even has Pulitzers.
Drew Barrymore - Not talented, not good looking (Lionel Barrymore in a cheap wig is my usual catty comment on her looks), mush-mouthed, stupid, vapid, trashy (without actually being sexy, though she tries). Never mind her movies, the trailers for them will send me screaming from the room. I don’t care about her drug history, her family history (she’s proof talent leapfrogs generations), her striptease for Letterman (glad I missed that one), her tagteam marriages or her choice of men. At least she hasn’t bred yet, I hope she never does.
Any Baldwin other than Alec, who has really slid careerwise himself, but that’s offtopic. The Usual Suspects was the only good movie Stephen made. Daniel must have been on those drugs he likes when he left Homicide, the only good gig he ever had. Billy is a ghost of an actor, I’ve seen some of his movies, but can’t recall one line of dialogue he ever said. He has all the screen presence of cardboard.
A co-worker and I have a running “Slam Nicolas Cage” gag. He is a pompous arrogant self-loving hack. He was good in Raising Arizona and Valley Girl and Red Rock West (I think that’s the title), why he has ever worked again is beyond me.
Conair? Crap! Leaving Las Vegas Depressing crap!The Rock? Unbelievable crap!! And the list goes on.
Can someone reference the stonecutter reference from the Simpsons? I watch a fair amount of Simpsons and I don’t know what this is. Especially relating to Steve Fucking Guttenberg.
In an episode of “The Simpsons,” Homer finds out about a secret society called “the Stonecutters,” sort of an Illuminati-Plus-Freemasons thing, who secretly run the world and get all kinds of perks. Most of the males in Springfield are members, which makes you wonder how exclusive it is, but never mind. The leader of the Springfield chapter is portrayed by the voice of Patrick Stewart in one of the funniest guest appearances in show history.
Anyway, Homer gets in by virtue of Grandpa being a member, and at a big dinner they sing the Stonecutter’s Song, which is a list of things the Stonecutters used their influence to do - keeping space aliens a secret, holding back electric cars, etc. One of the lines is “Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do!” It’s hilarious.
Homer joined the secret society of the Stonecutters to get all the perks (because Abe was a member, he was elgible). So then they all sit around a table eating ribs and singing their song:
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do.
Who leaves the Atlantis off the maps? [shot of Carl]
Who keeps the Martians under wraps? [shot of Lenny]
We do! We do. [shot of Martian]
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? [shot of Steve]
We do! We do.
Who robs cave fish of their sight? [shot of Skinner]
Who rigs every Oscar night? [shot of Homer]
We do! We do
It was in the episode where Homer joined the Stonecutters. They sang a song about it.
“Who made Steve Gutenberg a star. We do. We do.”
Also, such wackiness as, “Who rigged all the Oscar nights?” and the line about keeping the metric system down was in that show. It was probably my favourite Simpson’s episode.
/hijack
Musta missed that one! Sounds like a scream. Guess I’m not the only one who JUST DOESN’T GET Steve Guttenberg.
How about:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Michael Bolton-although, since he cut the mullet, you never hear about him anymore. Hmmmm…
Fabio-he’s NOT HANDSOME, OKAY?
Helen Hunt (Judi Dench should have gotten the Best Actress Oscar, NOT Hunt!)
Sandra Bernhardt-is she any relation to the legendary Sarah Bernhardt?
Ellen Degeneres-she is not funny. I have nothing against the woman personally, she seems like a nice person and all, but She’s. Just. Not. Funny.
If you think Melanie Griffith’s acting is bad, you should see her website!
Madonna-I LIKE Madonna. I like her music, I think she can sing. Yes, I think she’s over hyped and too much into shock value. Or at least, she used to be. I still think she’s talented.
ME-OW! Aren’t we all so catty?
My list:
Mr. T
Ricki Lake
Montel Williams
Ben Stein
Jerry Stiller
Jesse Ventura
Tim Allen
Dinty, I mean Demi, Moore
Sondra Locke
Connie Chung (I don’t understand how she destroyed her career)
Geraldo Rivera
Chevy Chase (he wasn’t even very funny in the original SNL)
Chris Farley (fortunately for us all, dead now)
David Spade
Arsenio Hall
Big DITTOS to:
Sandra Bernhard
Melanie Griffith
Bob Saget
Rosie O’Donnell
I’m sorry but I have to add :
Sarah Jessica Parker!!!
Would someone tell me how this woman is even attractive, much less the “Hottie” that everyone makes her out to be??
Chris W
Add me to the Sandra Bernhard club. I’ve trying to figure out her celebrity for years.
Guinastasia, you seriously can’t pinpoint why Jennifer Love Hewitt is popular???
Jennifer Love Hewitt is perky, happy, spunky, young, when she smiles her eyes look like little half circles, she sings, dances. She’s got it all. I honestly think she’s cute as a dickens.
Oh, and really big tits, which she shows off to good effect.
You know, I actually find Sandra Bernhard kind of attractive :eek:
Them is fighting words. Don’t you dare dis the maker of Big Trouble in Little China, Carrie and Escape from New York. I’ve liked his B-movies too. He works on such a shoestring budget that he makes studios a decent ROI no matter how his movies do.
Aargh! I meant Halloween (the original), not Carrie. Brain Fart Extraordinaire.