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I gave Kurt Angle a "good luck with your show" and he said "yea, you too". He could have said nothing, but he said something.
As a side note, I grew up watching WCW and loved Sting. He was so cool! Watching him walk around backstage was fucking weird.
A friend of mine dated the guy who played Sam in Clarissa Explains is All... turns out hes a pretty decent guy but doesn't exactly enjoy talking about his time on the show. No big surprise really, he hasn't done any acting since I don't think and fuck me I'd hate to talk only about a couple years of my life.
From the SA link Easily the funniest thing I've read in awhile and I believe it 100%. I would love to meet Bill Murray.
I was terrified and crying. I saw everyone (including my uncle) laughing, so I don't know if he's just that way and everyone knew he'd mess with me... or if my uncle told him to scare me. Either way, it was funny in retrospect.
One of the Dudley Brothers, I think Bubba Ray, is a regular call in on a talk show in Orlando. He seems like such a nice guy which makes this hysterical.
I might even call in with your story.
ZOMG you ate pizza with Keenan and Kel?!
Also the same night the Sandman jokingly offered me a beer and when I went to take it, snatched it away.
I was probably around 10 when this happened, so that's for the better I suppose. :P
Not that it matters as I've only met Big Baby Davis and Leon Powe of the Celtics, but I have a feeling the reason he shut it off was because of the media. The coach now(Doc Rivers) has had a few winning seasons, let alone a title, and had two major stars come over.
The previous coach wasn't really a "winner" like Doc, and didn't have Garnett or Ray Allen to scoop in national media attention. Just my thoughts on this.
Somewhere back home I have at least three Doc River signed Little League baseball hats. I think Neil Gaiman signing a femur makes more sense. Thats part of the weird thing about celebrities; I didn't even really know who Doc Rivers was, I just wanted his autograph!
The interpretation I've heard is that the previous (I may have the chronology off, I can't find the years they practiced here) was just a huge college sports fan, and so was more leniant. Apperantly, he's actually gone back to coaching college sports.
but they're listening to every word I say
Andy Bell deserves a fucking medal.
Who would sleep with him. He is kinda weird looking.
but they're listening to every word I say
Just want to throw one final thought out there as this is the only celebrity asshole story I have to share. And actually that pretty much is the thought although it should be elaborated on some. I've had some encounters with celebs myself and have anecdotally heard many others, it's something of a byproduct of living in Cali (especially from my mom's side which all lives in so cal and is large). Yet this is the only instance of asshole behavior I've had related to me, which I honestly find fairly amazing. Unfortunately for Michael Richards it makes him stand out as more of an ass to me in contrast but my impression of celebs in general is that most of them are incredibly nice people.
But enough of that. Let's hear more about the assholes.
He's a hilarious guy, and he's insanely charismatic. He was just hanging out in the bar playing pool with us and she went after him.
The funny thing is that my friend liked him so much that he never actually got mad at Ted, just her.
Hmm I've heard this same anecdote almost 6 years ago at my brother's graduation, except it was at an airport in North Carolina. At the time I thought, OMG that is so like Bill Murray, but seeing it here I'm now leaning towards it being an urban myth.
As for my celebrity asshole story
I got turned down for an autograph and picture from Lebron James and company but he wasn't really an asshole about it. This was 3 years ago when Team USA had come to Korea for an exhibition game against the Lithuanian national team. My cousins and I went to the game and cheered our hearts out for Team USA who crushed Lithuania.
A couple days later my co-worker and I just finished work and we were walking back home through the COEX mall. One thing about the COEX complex is that it encompasses an entire neighborhood block, contains an exhibition hall, several office buildings, Asia's largest underground shopping mall, a casino, and 3 international hotels.
As we're walking through one of the less busy areas of the mall we notice a group of extremely tall guys messing around on one of the Reactrix interactive floors found around the mall.
As we get a little closer my friend notes to me, "hey that guy kind of looks like Dwyane Wade". I take a closer look and that person is wearing a T-Shirt that says 'The Flash Squad' and then I realize it IS Dwyane Wade. Standing in front of me are Dwyane Wade, Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, and Antawn Jamison all playing with a virtual soccer ball at a mall in South Korea. Basically 4 of the best basketball players in the world plus Antwan Jamison. By now I'm totally starstruck and I have no idea what to do so I do the stupidest thing possible and just let my mouth do its thing. I run up to the group and yell the first thing that comes to my mind which is 'YO MELO!' while standing directly behind Carmelo Anthony.
I yell it so loud that all five of them kinda jump. Nothing else comes to my mind so now I'm standing there just gawking at these guys. My friend now comes running up, too late to stop me, so he does the first thing that pops into his head and asks Lebron James if we can take a picture with him. We are so out of our mind we simply ignore the rest of the players and ask ONLY Lebron for a picture. By now we've totally alienated the rest of the crew which is actually noticeable on Dwyane Wade's expression (this happened just a couple months after the Miami Heat's won their NBA Championship). Lebron tells us he can't and that they are late and need to get back to their hotel which might have been true because all of them had their luggage with them. Anyways we follow behind them as they walk their way through the mall and I was able to actually strike up a conversation with Chris Paul, who was pretty cool. It was a pretty surreal situation because these world famous NBA players are walking through a crowded mall but no one but my friend and I recognize who they are. I was so heart felled by that experience that for a month after it happened I changed my MSN messenger personalized message to 'Yo Melo!' to remind me to think before I act.
As a side note, I had a chance to meet Robert Horry last Thursday and this time there was no yelling so my picture endeavor was a little more successful.
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Why would he get mad at Ted? I doubt he could be expected to know that some random girl at a bar had a boyfriend, nor would it really be his responsibility when the girl was clearly acting in such as way as to indicate that she was unattached to independently verify it. It's her responsibility not to cheat, not some random guy that probably has no idea at all of what the situation is.
I laughed out loud.
Apparently this is a hobby of Murray's, doing random cool things with random people and then saying "No one will ever believe you".
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I actually did a bit like that when I was with my dad at his friend's place. He knew I follow the news, so pointed me to the pile of papers he has from that day.
"See, I've got the Times, the Post, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's; all the news that's fit to print."
"And the Post."
It's incredibly annoying :?
Mariah Carey does the same thing, only she requires this of any and all hotel staff. Yes it is utter bullshit.
NBA basketball is about as popular in South Korea as F1 Racing is in the US. I'm pretty sure that if a group of professional Starcraft players were walking next to them the Starcraft players would probably generate a bigger response.
Here is another incident I posted in the 'Why popcorn costs so much' thread a while back where I almost called the campus police on Crispin Glover.
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I guess he's at a level where he's not super noticeable for his celebrity though so may not get it as much.
I haven't had any encounters, negative or otherwise, myself but I know some stories.
So one of the more popular local singers here in SA came down to my town to do some small gigs at bars and clubs. At one of them, he sang all of one song, got utterly trashed, groped some other guys girlfriend and promptly had his face smashed in. Was quite different from the image he portrays in the media.
And for really local, although you gotta admit the guy should have known better:
So there's this guy who used to live in my town, fairly famous because he was the first non-white guy to make it to the national levels in kickboxing. This despite the fact he only had one functioning eyeball.
Now his name was "Piet" (this is important, note the spelling). After he made it to the nationals he did a bunch of coaching and for some extra cash was a bouncer at a bar. So this guy, it's his bachelor party and he is hammered. He suddenly gets the bright idea, to ask the very large man a question. What question?
"So, tell me, do you spell 'Piet' with one 'I' or two?"
I saw the guy's photos in the newspapers... looked like he was in a car wreck.
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As with most folklore it may originate from something that really happened, but I wager most of the truth has been lost in translation.
i met bret hart once
his retarded-looking brother ross tried to spit on me
bret was doing a thing at a local pizza pizza for some indy wrestling company out of alberta
i happened to be walking by with a couple buddies, i didn't even know it was going on till i saw the signs
we decided to go up and watch
some guy asked bret something about the wwe these days and his response was like "i don't watch the wwe anymore, nothing that happens there interests me."
and some guy was like "oh but bret did you hear that they did another poke at the whole montreal screwjob thing with a new match" and he just sorta frowned and was like "vince will keep doing that forever, he wants people to eventually think of me as the bad guy, but every time he does it he just reminds people what a terrible person he was for that."
and then i said something like "yeah it was a really horrible crime the way he killed your character off in a tv show after you jumped to another company! what a jerk!"
couple people in the crowd laughed, bret just frowned at me
his brother ross freaked and started shouting at me and we decided to leave and the dude tried twice to spit on me as i left
so, i mean, bret hart wasn't a dick about it (i was probably being more a jerk than him) but his brother ross hart is a fucking jack-ass
In Bret's book it did say that Ross could be a pretty big dick at times but he tried to stand him for the most part to keep the family happy.
As for me, I'm just trying to think if I've interacted with a celebrity before.
I've done tech support for a set designer for the tonight show but that's not really big celebrity.
I met a couple of guys from a local morning news program and both were really nice. Aside from that there hasn't been too much else. One of my friends from high school played hockey with Sidney Crosby a couple of times but it wasn't anything major at the time.
Oh wait! I've met Kurgan. Most people probably won't know who he is but he was in the WWE/WWF as one of "The Oddities". He's a pretty big guy and hails from New Brunswick. I was working at the Toys R Us in Moncton a couple of years ago and he happened to pop in and was looking for a measuring tape so someone could measure him. Sadly I didn't have one as I was in the electronics department and we didn't have that sort of thing there. He's also going to be in the new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr. Guy seems pretty nice and cordial but we didn't get much of a chance to talk.
Also met Rodney Mullen just skateboarding by himself in the middle of Bristol a few years ago. Went up, said hi, cool chap.
Oh, and Newton Faulkner a couple of months back, backstage at a festival in Coventry where he was headlining. Another really cool guy who spent ages talking to my sister and younger brother, then signed a setlist.
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Josh made it a point to come and talk to those of us that got paid $10 a day to hang out with movie stars. He was a cool guy, and liked Hawaiian style pizza from our local pizza hut. Apparently Emilio Estavez, doesn't like people talking to him though. Go figure.
I also briefly saw Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears when they were still together in 2000 when I was in Las Vegas on vacation. Turns out Celebs like the fountain at the Bellagio just like the rest of us. Turns out that they were waiting for their assistants to check them in. I talked to them for all of like a minute.
Also I worked the Rosebud/Treasure county fair in Montana in 2007 as a radio DJ and got to meet Mel Tillis. He was a cool guy for 115F degree weather.
I went to a Q/A session with Bruce Campbell once and was surprised by how much of a dick he was to his fans. Half the people who asked questions got made fun of and he just acted like he did not want to be there. This was at the premiere for a shitty movie he directed and starred in at his own home town.
By far the weirdest but coolest experience I had with a famous person was with Barbara Bush. I was like 9 years old and we were at Epcot center in Disneyworld. My parents recognized her at lunch and we just kinda gawked at her and her Secret Service escort for a while. Then she kinda motioned for use to come over and she talked with me and my little brother for a few minutes and tussled our hair. Very cool experience.
This is the exact opposite of what he was like when he spoke at the college I got my undergrad degree from. He stuck around for several hours after a q&a to sign books and chat with people. Sorry you had a bad run-in with Campbell.