There is a post up over in Rachel’s Queendom, and it skewers the venerable genius that is Brian Hackett- AHEM- Steven Weber. Read it, laughed, loved it as I do most of what “Rach” writes, but it got me to thinking.
I just can’t imagine I am the only person that doesn’t watch or read certain celebrity offerings (movies, books, TV shows) because of the asinine statements of their “stars”. And I must admit I am very anti-hype, so sometimes I start from a position of “everyone else has seen it, so I don’t need to”.
Some examples, and I’m not going to offer many links because you all know them already:
Never seen Titanic. Don’t want to. Don’t like DiCaprio because he is a lefty nut-job, and that just solidified it for me. But this started mostly as an anti-hype thing.
Couldn’t drag me to anything audible or visual regarding Streisand. Could. Not. Do. It.
George Clooney is an assclown of near historic proportion. No ER- even now- and certainly not any of his recent movies, although I did enjoy “O Brother” for a while, but won’t even watch it anymore.
Ashton Kutcher ? Come on. Did you see that tirade he went on a few days ago ?
Whoopi Goldberg, I’ll watch some old movies, but pretty much anything beyond Jumpin’ Jack Flash I have avoided like the plague.
Bill Maher. I still remember the old days when comedians were expected to be funny. Evidently Bill missed that memo.
The list goes on and on and on and on. I guess the bottom line is that if you are a celebrity, and insist on also being an “activist”, you won’t get my money. People pay you to entertain, ya putz. If we want political genius we’ll go to Rosie O’Donnell. Oh, wait.
The same follows through the worlds of music, TV, movies…. am I the only one who consciously refuses to watch anything with idiotic celebrities ?
PS- I must admit I have a soft spot for Bull Durham, which co-stars two of the most whacked-out lefties ever to walk the planet, in Tim Robbins and his mom Susan Sarandon. But it’s a baseball movie, and nothing can bring the warring parties together better than baseball.
PPS- I also admit to being a fan of Aaron Sorkin. SportsNight and West Wing are two of my favorite TV programs ever. But I like the writing, and whether you want to admit it or not, for the most part his politics are left-center, and even range into the right-center world from time to time. In other words, his programs are fair. His personal views are WHACKED OUT LEFT, but he understands that to sell a show to an audience ya can’t piss off 50% of the country. Something that a lot of these clowns mentioned about don’t seem to understand.
P^3S: Oh, and I don’t watch Wings reruns either, Brian/Steven. Do you have another character ? You played the same guy in Wings as you did in Studio 60 as you did in…. everything else you’ve done. Tell me again why you are important please.