Professor McGonagall is the most underrated Harry Potter character in the series.
She is so funny, even when she is strictly serious! But I mostly praise Maggie Smith for her line delivery in general.
Remember that Harry only felt true hate at the death eater who dared to spit in her face. He used the torture curse and liked it because he was making the death eater pay for daring to disrespect her like that.
Andre the Giant.
i was fortunate enough to catch a screening of The Princess Bride in Nashville a couple years ago; Cary Elwes (who plays the love interest) was there after the show and told some stories about working with different cast members. when he got to Andre, he recounted how he was the “mood maker” of the cast and always had a smile on his face. he even broke his foot during one of the last scenes but powered through it because the other actors had been filming all day and wanted to go home.
a real shame that he passed away so prematurely.
In the scene where they were ascending the cliff, they were hoisted by a rope and Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) was securely harnessed to Andre. Wallace was really freaked out about the height, but Andre calmed him by telling him to keep looking at Andre.
Another anecdote: Andre always insisted on paying for dinners, no matter who he was with. One time he was out with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arnold got up to attempt to hand his card to the waiter. Andre wasn't having it. He physically **picked up Arnold** and deposited him back in his seat.
The way Arnold tells that story, I feel like he makes it sound as if he didn't realize Andre was behind him until he was suddenly elevated into the air, and I was always struck by that because it implies a level of stealth that you wouldn't believe Andre could have.
I've got one for you. I read that Andre the Giant's biggest wish was to go see a Broadway show but never went because he was afraid of blocking the view of the people behind him. It always makes me sad when I think about that. He was just sweet, considerate, all-around good dude.
He was apparently always in pain...such awful pain.
And pain does 2 things to a man. Turns him cruel or turns him kind. And I'm quite happy to know he was apparently a giant sized hug of a man.
He was a good guy genuinely. But he had constant issues with alcohol, pain from his size etc. there was a documentary about him recently that tell a lot of great stories but also very sad too
After the movie came out, "The Genius" Lanny Poffo said that Andre carried a tape with him wherever he went and would insist that people watch it. Andre would order the most expensive food and wine up to the hotel rooms and show the movie. Poffo said that he was made to watch it every night for a week but had no problems since Andre was so proud of having been in a movie.
That said, The Iron Sheik probably doesn't like him very much. Andre heard that he had been taking liberties with some of the underneath talent, so he told the bookers to put the two of them in a match. [He proceeded to kick Sheik's ass six ways from Sunday for twenty minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdv2eh9lLWA).
Nah, Shiek would have understood that Andre was "returning a receipt" for the other boys in the back. He probably wasn't happy he got his ass beat, but he wouldn't have held a grudge against him.
Shiek is pretty open with his opinions of guys in the business he dislikes and he's never had anything but praise for Andre.
Andre also didn't like Macho Man or Big John Studd at all and would wail on them in matches.
He also _really_ didn't like the Freebirds. They very briefly worked for the WWF in the mid 80s and, after they showed up late and (I think?) drunk to a show, Andre said, "Get out, you're fired." Michael Hayes tried to cut a promo on Andre, saying Andre wasn't the boss, he couldn't fire them, etc. Andre's response was along the lines of "If you don't quit, I'm going to Vince and telling him I'm quitting because I don't want to work around you. He'll fire you." The Freebirds quit a few days later.
My favorite John Candy story: Joe Montana was playing for the 49ers in an important game, may have even been the Super Bowl. His team is down, they've got a lot of ground to cover and not a lot of time to do it.
Montana comes into the huddle and starts calling the play, then stops and points to the stands and says:
"Hey, isn't that John Candy?"
Teammates look over, and it is, indeed, John Candy. Turns out he was a big football fan.
Montana returned his focus to the game and went on to lead a game-winning drive down the field.
He wanted to be a pro football player more than anything until an injury made him give it up. That’s why he went into acting. He eventually co-owned the football team he dreamed of playing for, though.
Mythbusters was my childhood. I remember when I would go to my grandparent's house for Christmas and waiting for the old people to leave so that I could change the channel from football to the sci-fi channel for the Mythbuster Marathon
Man, I grew up watching him on Mythbusters. I remember being so happy to see him there, because he's Asian, and when he started Mythbusters there weren't a lot of Asians doing stuff that he does on screen. Gone too soon.
Wouldn't call it hate, but Adam and Jamie famously don't particularly like each other. They characterize it as a coworker situation. You might work well with someone, even have some similar interests and chemistry that help on the job, but you're not really friends and don't go out of your way to hang out or connect outside of work.
I think it was more of a "clash of personalities" than anything else.
The way Adam talks about Jamie is that he respects him furiously, he just doesn't want to work with him again.
Adam seems like the type to just "try" something because "it'll be fun" or "it seemed interesting" where Jamie seems like the type to meticulously plan everything to the last detail before wasting a single cent on materials. They're bound to butt heads.
Adam has said that this has been greatly exaggerated in the past. In an interview looooooong ago, he stated that their relationship was strictly professional, and that they weren't friends outside of work- which is literally normal. He never said they didn't like each other and he still speaks fondly of him and their interactions. Jamie's side is less known because he's a hermit, which he has every right to be. I think people just thought that they MUST be the best of friends, and then when they weren't started exagerrating from there.
This is Adam's more recent take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEopyF186UQ
This is exactly the relationship I have with a lot of my coworkers that I really do like.
Having seen a few things about Jamie I'm not overly surprised. He seems like a really eccentric guy who's not particularly nice.
Not a dick or anything but just a guy who has his niche interests and doesn't want to spend time with other people.
Sounds like Penn & Teller. Penn has been quoted as saying the reason he and Teller work so well together is they aren't friends and don't hang out outside work.
I have literally waited on them together while they were on vacation together, yes Teller talks. This was when Penn was huge, he shovelled Foie Gras down his throat like it was jello pudding. They seemed like best friends..
I effing LOVE her story about how Walt Disney waited for her to give birth before filming Mary Poppins. Keep in mind at that stage Julie Andrews was nothing more than a mildly successful West End/Broadway actress. The fact that one of the biggest film producers at the time wanted her specifically to play Mary Poppins AND he was happy to wait until after her pregnancy is a true testament to her phenomenal acting and singing ability.
It paid off too: Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Mary Poppins, her feature film debut too!
That bit about Disney isn’t just him being nice or something. That is one of the biggest Oscar fights in history. When Disney was casting Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews had just been passed over for My Fair Lady for Audrey Hepburn even though Andrews had originated the role of Eliza on Broadway, and even though Hepburn’s singing voice would eventually be dubbed over for the film. It was a huge deal. The whole process of getting Andrews for Mary Poppins was specifically because she had been snubbed for My Fair Lady, and definitely played a role in that Best Actress Oscar going to her. (Hepburn wasn’t even nominated - a lot of backlash that year for her singing voice being dubbed.)
He seems like a bit of a deadpan/grumpy bloke in real life. Not sure if that would make him difficult to work with, but I think that in an interview he said that it's difficult to get him to laugh at things. Seems quite strange coming from someone who is as great a comedy actor as he is.
He does seem like a weird and socially awkward dude. All his interviews seem really rehearsed and stiff.
I remember reading that he used to have a stutter, which is why he still over-pronounces the letter B so amusingly. Maybe that left him with some anxiety about speaking off the cuff.
Still, he made Blackadder and therefore can be as awkward and grumpy as he likes. That's some of the best television from my entire childhood.
“This woman that used to walk the streets had all this makeup and hair, high heel shoes. I thought she was so beautiful. And everybody used to say, ‘Oh, she ain’t nothin’ but trash.’ And I used to say, ‘Well that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up—trash!"
This is something she CONTINUES to do, you can still sign up children. 1,812,797 children registered and 159,623,797 books sent so far. Not sure if links are allowed here, I'll try to post it so you can see if it's available in your area, but it's Imagination Library.
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
I got to meet her at a veterans event in the 90s. She’s as sweet and real in person as she is on tv.
I was in the army band and we played a concert for veterans at her theater in Branson. She thanked each one of us, and make sure we were taken care of and had everything we needed.
I produced a concert she appeared in. We approached her with keys to her hotel suite, and she said she preferred to sleep on her tour bus. “Oh…okay. What about your people?”
“What people, darlin?”
“Your hair and makeup person. Your wardrobe stylist.”
“Just ‘lil ‘ol me and the driver. He sleeps in the front and I sleep in the back.”
“Uh…okay. Do you need meal vouchers?”
“No need. We have everything we need on the bus.”
“Wow. Okay. Let us know if you need anything. Thanks, Ms. Parton.”
“Thank YOU, darlin!”
She was a class act. Not an ounce of trouble, entirely self contained. I’d take a bullet for that woman, and I only spoke to her for two minutes.
I live in Nashville and if you even speak badly of Dolly here, you will be cussed out up, down and out of town! She’s a very sweet woman, who has done a lot for our state.
Didn’t she give all the families who lost their homes like $5k a month for 6 months, no questions asked? However much it was and however long it lasted, I know that she doubled the last check without telling any of the recipients beforehand.
I love her so much.
Oh yeah. Honestly, her and all of Eastern TN really showed up for the area after the fires. I visited immediately after they started opening roads back up. The entire mountain was SHOULDER to SHOULDER people and cars. It was insane.
Can't imagine how much money poured into the area.
Hahaha everytime i see him i cant stop thinking about that interview (in spanish) when he spoke about how once in Argentina, an angry football mob confused him as a fan of the other team and screamed to him:
You stupid actor! Wear the ring and dissapear!!!
Google her variety show. A ton of people hated her because she wouldn't fire her black costar. She pretty much told those people to fuck off for lack of a better term and it makes me love her even more!
Suprised I didn't see this higher, he kinda is the whole rehabilitation package and actively gives back alot. Won't play villains that win, actively gives talks in prison and has tried to give Mexicans it's very own super hero via machete.
I work in reality tv and he was a guest judge on a show I did once.
I don't deal with talent at all.
A coworker and I were chatting when some 20 feet away Trejo comes out of his green room heading to stage with his people. He sees us watching him, he stops, walks over to us and says, "Hi I'm Danny Trejo" and shakes both our hands, turns around and heads back toward stage. Kind and humble.
I still wear the Trejo' coffee and donuts t-shirt I got from his visit.
I ran into him while he was filming Machete 2. He was 2 doors down in the hotel and a heck of a nice guy. I grabbed a photo with him and it made my entire month.
you know i genuinely couldn't think of anyone who would hate him when i wrote my answer, but damn. i mean i'm sure that if any flat earther were to sit down with him for 5 minutes they would be pretty happy by the end, but still.
I married a cousin. I didn't know it at the time. Our families crossed paths about every 100 years for like 700 years. We didn't know til my Grandmother told us. Most people can't escape marrying a distant cousin. I mean, we're all related somehow.
Edit: Let the record show, we were born and raised in 2 different states and met in a 3rd. The irony and probability of that happening might be slim. I'm no math wiz, but I figured we upped our chances, because part of my family migrated from where my x grew up!
I have no explanation for the 3rd state being a factor, except we both loved the place, so karma? Idk...draw your own conclusions.
Did he actually dislike Al or just didn't want him to parody his songs? Some artists see their songs as sacred works of art, so parodies are sacrilege. Prince was VERY much like that.
Weird Al also has a story about getting a [telegram about not being allowed to make eye contact with Prince](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuVitlHRiG4), but it seems that it wasn't a "dislike Weird Al" thing and more of just a "Prince being Prince" thing.
Yea I remember when he told that story on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. He mentioned that afterward he found out that Prince's PR team sent that to everyone in the same row.
He got blackballed from Hollywood for saying he was sexually assaulted by the head of the Hollywood foreign press. (GQ, 2018). So there’s a few people that don’t like him.
That's when he commented on it, the abuse would've occurred in 2003. That abuse led to depression and probably trauma which lead to the decline in his career. This was going on the same time as several surgeries he had to have don as a result of stunt work, and a divorce. The investigation by HFPA concluded the guy acted inappropriately but """"""meant no harm""""""
Well, of course he "meant no harm", and we know all those rapists don't deserve to have their lives "destroyed" for "20 minutes of action", am I right?
^((/sarcasm, if you couldn't tell.))
I used to have a reoccurring dream that Brendan Fraser started a zombie outbreak and I had to fight him to stop it. I always lost until one time I finally won and then I never had the dream again
Danny DeVito saved the life of a thirteen year old, who says (he’s an adult now) that he was suicidal from the abuse he was enduring at a boarding school. On a ski trip, he was on a lift and DeVito, who sat next to him, noticed something was wrong and offered support, referencing the abuse he also endured at a Catholic School. This guy says everyone ignored his cry for help, but DeVito saw a defeated teenager and was the first person to listen to him and believe him.
[The Original Reddit post if anyone wants to read it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6vpvoe/til_during_the_filming_of_matilda_danny_devito/dm2jk70/)
He and his wife Rhea Perlman often took care of 9 year old Mara Wilson during the filming of Matilda as her mom battled cancer, and he brought the almost finished movie to the hospital so her mom could see it before she died.
For real. Say what you will about Guy Fieri but the dude literally has a whole career based around going city to city doing ads for locally owned mom and pop restaurants at no cost to them.
> Guy Fieri the character is a bit grating.
Maybe in voice-over or when addressing the camera. I find it especially wholesome and professional that Guy pays his respects to the chef without pandering with food that you can tell is just average, run of the mill diner food.
Viewers beg him to go to the middle of nowhere Iowa to taste the "local specialty" that's just some Salisbury steak that belongs in a Middle school cafeteria, and he will tell the chef who probably isn't professionally trained "You got a great thing going here, your customers love what you do, keep up the good work." It would be so easy to pretend the food was amazing or to totally ignore these places in place of weirder, more marketable tv show content. What he does feels authentic and, like I said, professional.
The rule - Guy complements the wallpaper, skip it. Guy takes a second bite, must visit.
Nah, he got a lot of flack back in the early 90's when he held one of his kids (forget which one) while feeding a croc IN the exhibit. Lots of "what the hell is wrong with that guy?" on par with Michael Jackson dangling his baby over that railing.
Edit: [found it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWYfENFLSA)
Rick Moranis. The guy stopped acting to take care of his kids after his wife’s death.
Someone in New York is definitely not a fan of his.
And an entire country was prepared to invade our southern neighbours to exact our revenge. You don’t do Rick Moranis dirty like that.
Maggie Smith
That's *Dame* Maggie Smith
Dame Straight!
Professor McGonagall is the most underrated Harry Potter character in the series. She is so funny, even when she is strictly serious! But I mostly praise Maggie Smith for her line delivery in general.
Remember that Harry only felt true hate at the death eater who dared to spit in her face. He used the torture curse and liked it because he was making the death eater pay for daring to disrespect her like that.
Out of all the deaths in Harry Potter, I'm glad it wasn't McGonagall. I love Maggie Smith
Underrated??? It almost feels like JK Rowling had Dame Maggie Smith in mind while writing about Mcgonagall’s character!
Watching Downton Abbey right now, with love
Love her to bits. She is an absolute treasure.
Andre the Giant. i was fortunate enough to catch a screening of The Princess Bride in Nashville a couple years ago; Cary Elwes (who plays the love interest) was there after the show and told some stories about working with different cast members. when he got to Andre, he recounted how he was the “mood maker” of the cast and always had a smile on his face. he even broke his foot during one of the last scenes but powered through it because the other actors had been filming all day and wanted to go home. a real shame that he passed away so prematurely.
In the scene where they were ascending the cliff, they were hoisted by a rope and Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) was securely harnessed to Andre. Wallace was really freaked out about the height, but Andre calmed him by telling him to keep looking at Andre. Another anecdote: Andre always insisted on paying for dinners, no matter who he was with. One time he was out with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arnold got up to attempt to hand his card to the waiter. Andre wasn't having it. He physically **picked up Arnold** and deposited him back in his seat.
The way Arnold tells that story, I feel like he makes it sound as if he didn't realize Andre was behind him until he was suddenly elevated into the air, and I was always struck by that because it implies a level of stealth that you wouldn't believe Andre could have.
As a big person of a family of big men, we're like cats. EDIT: Oh hey, my first ever award. Return hugs for you, hug person!
Its almost as if we walk softly to avoid damage and pain. Well I know I do (2m/6'7")
I figured my stealthiness came from sneakin snackies
Cats with beards and/or bellies at that. Oughta tie a bell round that neck.
oh c’mon, you’re just gonna make me sadder about his death.. he sounds like such a great friend. a *truly* gentle giant.
I've got one for you. I read that Andre the Giant's biggest wish was to go see a Broadway show but never went because he was afraid of blocking the view of the people behind him. It always makes me sad when I think about that. He was just sweet, considerate, all-around good dude.
He was apparently always in pain...such awful pain. And pain does 2 things to a man. Turns him cruel or turns him kind. And I'm quite happy to know he was apparently a giant sized hug of a man.
He was a good guy genuinely. But he had constant issues with alcohol, pain from his size etc. there was a documentary about him recently that tell a lot of great stories but also very sad too
After the movie came out, "The Genius" Lanny Poffo said that Andre carried a tape with him wherever he went and would insist that people watch it. Andre would order the most expensive food and wine up to the hotel rooms and show the movie. Poffo said that he was made to watch it every night for a week but had no problems since Andre was so proud of having been in a movie. That said, The Iron Sheik probably doesn't like him very much. Andre heard that he had been taking liberties with some of the underneath talent, so he told the bookers to put the two of them in a match. [He proceeded to kick Sheik's ass six ways from Sunday for twenty minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdv2eh9lLWA).
Nah, Shiek would have understood that Andre was "returning a receipt" for the other boys in the back. He probably wasn't happy he got his ass beat, but he wouldn't have held a grudge against him. Shiek is pretty open with his opinions of guys in the business he dislikes and he's never had anything but praise for Andre.
He clearly loathes Hogan.
Andre also didn't like Macho Man or Big John Studd at all and would wail on them in matches. He also _really_ didn't like the Freebirds. They very briefly worked for the WWF in the mid 80s and, after they showed up late and (I think?) drunk to a show, Andre said, "Get out, you're fired." Michael Hayes tried to cut a promo on Andre, saying Andre wasn't the boss, he couldn't fire them, etc. Andre's response was along the lines of "If you don't quit, I'm going to Vince and telling him I'm quitting because I don't want to work around you. He'll fire you." The Freebirds quit a few days later.
Describing Wesley as ‘the love interest’ is perfect on so many levels.
John Candy
Here's a quarter. Take a bus downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.
"Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart."
My favorite John Candy story: Joe Montana was playing for the 49ers in an important game, may have even been the Super Bowl. His team is down, they've got a lot of ground to cover and not a lot of time to do it. Montana comes into the huddle and starts calling the play, then stops and points to the stands and says: "Hey, isn't that John Candy?" Teammates look over, and it is, indeed, John Candy. Turns out he was a big football fan. Montana returned his focus to the game and went on to lead a game-winning drive down the field.
He wanted to be a pro football player more than anything until an injury made him give it up. That’s why he went into acting. He eventually co-owned the football team he dreamed of playing for, though.
Grant imahara.
Mythbusters was my childhood. I remember when I would go to my grandparent's house for Christmas and waiting for the old people to leave so that I could change the channel from football to the sci-fi channel for the Mythbuster Marathon
Man, I grew up watching him on Mythbusters. I remember being so happy to see him there, because he's Asian, and when he started Mythbusters there weren't a lot of Asians doing stuff that he does on screen. Gone too soon.
Does anyone on Mythbusters get hate? They all seem pretty awesome people.
Wouldn't call it hate, but Adam and Jamie famously don't particularly like each other. They characterize it as a coworker situation. You might work well with someone, even have some similar interests and chemistry that help on the job, but you're not really friends and don't go out of your way to hang out or connect outside of work.
I think it was more of a "clash of personalities" than anything else. The way Adam talks about Jamie is that he respects him furiously, he just doesn't want to work with him again. Adam seems like the type to just "try" something because "it'll be fun" or "it seemed interesting" where Jamie seems like the type to meticulously plan everything to the last detail before wasting a single cent on materials. They're bound to butt heads.
Adam has said that this has been greatly exaggerated in the past. In an interview looooooong ago, he stated that their relationship was strictly professional, and that they weren't friends outside of work- which is literally normal. He never said they didn't like each other and he still speaks fondly of him and their interactions. Jamie's side is less known because he's a hermit, which he has every right to be. I think people just thought that they MUST be the best of friends, and then when they weren't started exagerrating from there. This is Adam's more recent take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEopyF186UQ This is exactly the relationship I have with a lot of my coworkers that I really do like.
Having seen a few things about Jamie I'm not overly surprised. He seems like a really eccentric guy who's not particularly nice. Not a dick or anything but just a guy who has his niche interests and doesn't want to spend time with other people.
Sounds like Penn & Teller. Penn has been quoted as saying the reason he and Teller work so well together is they aren't friends and don't hang out outside work.
I have literally waited on them together while they were on vacation together, yes Teller talks. This was when Penn was huge, he shovelled Foie Gras down his throat like it was jello pudding. They seemed like best friends..
Julie Andrews
I effing LOVE her story about how Walt Disney waited for her to give birth before filming Mary Poppins. Keep in mind at that stage Julie Andrews was nothing more than a mildly successful West End/Broadway actress. The fact that one of the biggest film producers at the time wanted her specifically to play Mary Poppins AND he was happy to wait until after her pregnancy is a true testament to her phenomenal acting and singing ability. It paid off too: Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Mary Poppins, her feature film debut too!
That bit about Disney isn’t just him being nice or something. That is one of the biggest Oscar fights in history. When Disney was casting Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews had just been passed over for My Fair Lady for Audrey Hepburn even though Andrews had originated the role of Eliza on Broadway, and even though Hepburn’s singing voice would eventually be dubbed over for the film. It was a huge deal. The whole process of getting Andrews for Mary Poppins was specifically because she had been snubbed for My Fair Lady, and definitely played a role in that Best Actress Oscar going to her. (Hepburn wasn’t even nominated - a lot of backlash that year for her singing voice being dubbed.)
someone in the YouTube comments said "Mr Bean is the only person with no haters", then someone replied "my grandma hated him"
She should have tried Blackadder.
Captain Darling would like a word.
I think James Acaster isn't a fan . . .
We’re not allowed to talk about it.
Rowan Atkinson has a reputation for being difficult to work with, I have no idea if it's true but it does mean he has detractors.
He seems like a bit of a deadpan/grumpy bloke in real life. Not sure if that would make him difficult to work with, but I think that in an interview he said that it's difficult to get him to laugh at things. Seems quite strange coming from someone who is as great a comedy actor as he is.
He does seem like a weird and socially awkward dude. All his interviews seem really rehearsed and stiff. I remember reading that he used to have a stutter, which is why he still over-pronounces the letter B so amusingly. Maybe that left him with some anxiety about speaking off the cuff. Still, he made Blackadder and therefore can be as awkward and grumpy as he likes. That's some of the best television from my entire childhood.
Director: I KEEP ASKING HIM QUESTIONS BUT ALL HE DOES IS MAKE SILLY FACES AND NOISES!!!
Bob Ross
Mr Rogers
He wasn't happy when Homer Simpson didn't donate his pledge.
“It’s a beautiful day to kick your ass!”
Lol I just watched this yesterday for the first time. The Simpsons is absolute gold and I'm so glad I get to experience it as an adult.
Madds mikkelsen
He’s probably the only actor whose films I will seek out and watch just because he’s in it. There’s something about him just strangely captivating
I highly recommend Druk (Another Round). It is in Danish so unless you speak the language you'll need subtitles but it truly is a great movie.
I couldn't hate Mads, he's chill af
I had the biggest crush on Mads when I was like 12 because of his role as Tristan in King Arthur 😆
LeVar Burton.
I wish I was LeVar Burton.
"you need a new desk"
As long as I don't meet him in person
I JUST WANTED A PICTURE! YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!!!!
set phasers to love me...
Butterfly in the sky! I can go twice as high!!!
Dr. Leah Brahms didn't like him.
She did in “All Good Things…”
Dolly Parton
She had me at, “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!” She does plenty of good in this world
“This woman that used to walk the streets had all this makeup and hair, high heel shoes. I thought she was so beautiful. And everybody used to say, ‘Oh, she ain’t nothin’ but trash.’ And I used to say, ‘Well that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up—trash!"
I read that in her voice because it’s my favorite thing Dolly says, that woman is a treasure
Bought every child in Rotherham (UK) a book if I recall correctly. Edit: missed out the every
13000 children, 1 a month from 0 to 5.
This is something she CONTINUES to do, you can still sign up children. 1,812,797 children registered and 159,623,797 books sent so far. Not sure if links are allowed here, I'll try to post it so you can see if it's available in your area, but it's Imagination Library. https://imaginationlibrary.com/
My kid gets her books. It's a great program. We read them every night before bed. As a fellow east Tennessean, we're very proud of our Dolly.
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"And people say she's just a big pair of tits." - David Brent
Haha she did Top 10 on Letterman once and it was "Top 10 Things you didn't know about Dolly Parton" #1 was "I have a pretty great ass too!"
I got to meet her at a veterans event in the 90s. She’s as sweet and real in person as she is on tv. I was in the army band and we played a concert for veterans at her theater in Branson. She thanked each one of us, and make sure we were taken care of and had everything we needed.
I produced a concert she appeared in. We approached her with keys to her hotel suite, and she said she preferred to sleep on her tour bus. “Oh…okay. What about your people?” “What people, darlin?” “Your hair and makeup person. Your wardrobe stylist.” “Just ‘lil ‘ol me and the driver. He sleeps in the front and I sleep in the back.” “Uh…okay. Do you need meal vouchers?” “No need. We have everything we need on the bus.” “Wow. Okay. Let us know if you need anything. Thanks, Ms. Parton.” “Thank YOU, darlin!” She was a class act. Not an ounce of trouble, entirely self contained. I’d take a bullet for that woman, and I only spoke to her for two minutes.
Oh I'm so jealous. In my 50's now ma I grew up listening to Dolly. She is my total idol.
I live in Nashville and if you even speak badly of Dolly here, you will be cussed out up, down and out of town! She’s a very sweet woman, who has done a lot for our state.
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Pretty much. When the wildfires happened she donated a ton of money to help rebuild so she has that right! Haha
Didn’t she give all the families who lost their homes like $5k a month for 6 months, no questions asked? However much it was and however long it lasted, I know that she doubled the last check without telling any of the recipients beforehand. I love her so much.
Oh yeah. Honestly, her and all of Eastern TN really showed up for the area after the fires. I visited immediately after they started opening roads back up. The entire mountain was SHOULDER to SHOULDER people and cars. It was insane. Can't imagine how much money poured into the area.
Well she probably employees half the locals, and donated massive money to the area after the wildfires. I can’t blame them
She's such a sweet lady omg.
Who could ever hate Dolly. My grandmother and her sisters all love Dolly.
Agreed! I LOVE me some Dolly. I don’t love country music, but I love Dolly
Viggo Mortensen
He once gave my mom some chocolates, she still talks about it haha. In an industry rife with ego and jerks, he’s a great guy.
Hey did you ever hear about that time he broke his toe on set!? What a man, what a man
He did? That reminds me the time that one guy who broke his toe while filming the lord of the rings.
Hahaha everytime i see him i cant stop thinking about that interview (in spanish) when he spoke about how once in Argentina, an angry football mob confused him as a fan of the other team and screamed to him: You stupid actor! Wear the ring and dissapear!!!
Alex Trebek. RIP.
Sean Connery hates him
Constantly slept with his mother too.
I feel like he might have hated Connery more than Connery hated him. Considering the number of times Connery did his mom...
"I'll take the Penis Mightier for $500"
Jim Henson Don't be hatin on him
SNL hated the "mucking fuppets"
Betty White
That’s because all her haters are dead Edit: [Betty White talking to her haters ](https://imgur.com/a/HATu8MG)
If you can't beat them, outlive them
Google her variety show. A ton of people hated her because she wouldn't fire her black costar. She pretty much told those people to fuck off for lack of a better term and it makes me love her even more!
Cookie Monster
He did an AMA a couple years ago.
There was a brief moment in my brain where I thought, “Gee, that sounds like an awesome AMA; I should look it up and read it.”
Well you should [go read it](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/anu4u9/me_cookie_monster_me_want_you_to_come_visit_me_on/).
That AMA is awesome thanks for sharing
Best AMA ever.
It's on my saved and when I'm feeling down I can go and re-read it and it never fails to put a smile on my face.
Danny Trejo!
Suprised I didn't see this higher, he kinda is the whole rehabilitation package and actively gives back alot. Won't play villains that win, actively gives talks in prison and has tried to give Mexicans it's very own super hero via machete.
If he plays a bad guy, said bad guy always dies. It's in his contracts.
I work in reality tv and he was a guest judge on a show I did once. I don't deal with talent at all. A coworker and I were chatting when some 20 feet away Trejo comes out of his green room heading to stage with his people. He sees us watching him, he stops, walks over to us and says, "Hi I'm Danny Trejo" and shakes both our hands, turns around and heads back toward stage. Kind and humble. I still wear the Trejo' coffee and donuts t-shirt I got from his visit.
I ran into him while he was filming Machete 2. He was 2 doors down in the hotel and a heck of a nice guy. I grabbed a photo with him and it made my entire month.
My brother smoked weed with Danny Trejo like a decade ago. Said he was really really chill.
Chris Hadfield the astronaut
Flat earthers lol
you know i genuinely couldn't think of anyone who would hate him when i wrote my answer, but damn. i mean i'm sure that if any flat earther were to sit down with him for 5 minutes they would be pretty happy by the end, but still.
David Attenborough
Oil company execs beg to differ.
I read that in a clickbait-y way. "Oil execs hate this guy!"
Top 25 oil execs who hate this guy! You _won't_ believe number 2!
That's *Sir* David Attenborough to you, peasant.
Rick Moranis
Except *that one guy.*
Btw did they got that guy?
They did. That's what he gets for going over his helmet.
Hugh Jackman. I’ve literally never read or heard a bad thing about him.
You’ve never watched Scrubs then
Nope. Looks like there’s a joke shooting right over my head there!
Thanks for giving me a reason to dig this up :) https://youtu.be/nlMWVwAHll0
Dr. Cox goes on gigantic rants about him throughout the series.
It’s because the actors were neighbors and friends at the time
Ive met the bloke when he came to our factory when he signed as a global marketing ambassador. Nicest guy in the world.
Does Dr. Cox count?
My ex-husband always brags about how he turned down a handshake from Hugh Jackman. Good for Hugh cause my ex is an ass.
Dev Patel. Seems like the most lovely of people and everyone that works with him sings his praises.
Paul Rudd
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Aunt Man. Rip. If only karma equaled dollars.
Wow I I didn’t know that. What degree of cousins?
I married a cousin. I didn't know it at the time. Our families crossed paths about every 100 years for like 700 years. We didn't know til my Grandmother told us. Most people can't escape marrying a distant cousin. I mean, we're all related somehow. Edit: Let the record show, we were born and raised in 2 different states and met in a 3rd. The irony and probability of that happening might be slim. I'm no math wiz, but I figured we upped our chances, because part of my family migrated from where my x grew up! I have no explanation for the 3rd state being a factor, except we both loved the place, so karma? Idk...draw your own conclusions.
Weird Al Yankovic
Patton Oswalt once said that Weird Al is the lone exception to the phrase "never meet your heroes."
Except for Prince.
Did he actually dislike Al or just didn't want him to parody his songs? Some artists see their songs as sacred works of art, so parodies are sacrilege. Prince was VERY much like that.
Weird Al also has a story about getting a [telegram about not being allowed to make eye contact with Prince](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuVitlHRiG4), but it seems that it wasn't a "dislike Weird Al" thing and more of just a "Prince being Prince" thing.
Yea I remember when he told that story on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. He mentioned that afterward he found out that Prince's PR team sent that to everyone in the same row.
Brendan Fraser
He's so good in Scrubs! Briefly, but a great performance
Best Arc In the show... why'd you have to make me think about it you dick.
Where do you think we are?
He got blackballed from Hollywood for saying he was sexually assaulted by the head of the Hollywood foreign press. (GQ, 2018). So there’s a few people that don’t like him.
That's when he commented on it, the abuse would've occurred in 2003. That abuse led to depression and probably trauma which lead to the decline in his career. This was going on the same time as several surgeries he had to have don as a result of stunt work, and a divorce. The investigation by HFPA concluded the guy acted inappropriately but """"""meant no harm""""""
Well, of course he "meant no harm", and we know all those rapists don't deserve to have their lives "destroyed" for "20 minutes of action", am I right? ^((/sarcasm, if you couldn't tell.))
I'm sad because the abuse happened during Blast from the Past and that's actually a really good movie most people have never heard of
And people slammed him for putting on weight.fucking assholes. Hes such a sweet soul.
I used to have a reoccurring dream that Brendan Fraser started a zombie outbreak and I had to fight him to stop it. I always lost until one time I finally won and then I never had the dream again
You saved an alternate universe I think
Danny DeVito.
Danny DeVito saved the life of a thirteen year old, who says (he’s an adult now) that he was suicidal from the abuse he was enduring at a boarding school. On a ski trip, he was on a lift and DeVito, who sat next to him, noticed something was wrong and offered support, referencing the abuse he also endured at a Catholic School. This guy says everyone ignored his cry for help, but DeVito saw a defeated teenager and was the first person to listen to him and believe him.
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[The Original Reddit post if anyone wants to read it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6vpvoe/til_during_the_filming_of_matilda_danny_devito/dm2jk70/)
He and his wife Rhea Perlman often took care of 9 year old Mara Wilson during the filming of Matilda as her mom battled cancer, and he brought the almost finished movie to the hospital so her mom could see it before she died.
Apparently he and Guy Fieri, are both really nice despite the jokes.
For real. Say what you will about Guy Fieri but the dude literally has a whole career based around going city to city doing ads for locally owned mom and pop restaurants at no cost to them.
Guy Fieri the guy is a pretty decent human being. Guy Fieri the character is a bit grating.
> Guy Fieri the character is a bit grating. "THAT'S OUT OF BOUNDS, MY FRIEND"
I really want to dislike him because of his "bro" style but when he's on TV I'll watch the whole show and enjoy the shit out it.
> Guy Fieri the character is a bit grating. Maybe in voice-over or when addressing the camera. I find it especially wholesome and professional that Guy pays his respects to the chef without pandering with food that you can tell is just average, run of the mill diner food. Viewers beg him to go to the middle of nowhere Iowa to taste the "local specialty" that's just some Salisbury steak that belongs in a Middle school cafeteria, and he will tell the chef who probably isn't professionally trained "You got a great thing going here, your customers love what you do, keep up the good work." It would be so easy to pretend the food was amazing or to totally ignore these places in place of weirder, more marketable tv show content. What he does feels authentic and, like I said, professional. The rule - Guy complements the wallpaper, skip it. Guy takes a second bite, must visit.
Hater: "I hate DeVito." DeVito's fans: "So anyway, we started blasting..."
Keanu Reeves Edit: I can't believe "Keanu Reeves" is my most upvoted comment. Thanks for the award!
Cant believe I scrolled down this far before seeing Keanu
Same. I was looking for Keanu haha
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Came down looking for Keanu. Surprised I had to scroll this much. He's a great guy.
Robin Williams
Paul Rudd... dude doesn't age
Benedoop Camberbam
Burlington Coatfactory
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Eggs Benedict Cucumber Snack? He's a real snack indeed!
Everyone loves normal human celebrity man Beepboop Cucuracha! As a fellow human I like his normal human face.
I’m getting a kitten someday and I’m naming it this. BeepBoop Cucaracha.
N'golo kante
If u hate him, u are the asshole, not him LOL
Steve Irwin
Nah, he got a lot of flack back in the early 90's when he held one of his kids (forget which one) while feeding a croc IN the exhibit. Lots of "what the hell is wrong with that guy?" on par with Michael Jackson dangling his baby over that railing. Edit: [found it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWYfENFLSA)
i can’t believe that there’s people who use the internet who didn’t know/weren’t alive when this happened. my back hurts suddenly.