A Little Condemnation For Your Monday

[lazypadawan]

Kanye West crowned himself King of the Douchebags with his "performance" on the VMAs last night (which I didn't watch). He's entitled to think Beyoncé should have won and maybe he was right. Beats me. But to run up there and grab the mike from Taylor Swift like that to mouth off was the equivalent of dumping pig's blood on Carrie at the prom. He'd better be glad that Miss Swift doesn't have deadly telekinetic powers. But with West, it's always been about me, me, me. Beyoncé did the classy thing by trying to make it up to Swift later on, while professional jerk Russell Brand had the nerve to defend West. Can you see why I really have no use for these people?

Serena Williams's behavior at the U.S. Open was appalling. Not even John McEnroe pulled that kind of nonsense in his day.

Meanwhile, Michael Bay and Megan Fox are teaming up for Transformers 3: Battle Of The Egos. It all got started when the not-so-bright Fox gnawed off the feeding hand by saying Bay is kind of like Adolf Hitler on the set of his films. Then three crew members wrote anonymously on Bay's OWN website a long piece defending the director and portraying Fox as a dumb, untalented, harridan (but that's not the word they used). Fire up the Jiffy Pop and sit back for some entertaining reading on Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood. Not only is the letter from the crew members entertaining, so are the replies. People are accusing Bay of writing the letter himself while other comments accuse Fox's defenders of being part of her PR posse. Other comments dish on the horrors of working with the both them:

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/transformers-crew-talk-back-to-megan-fox/

Fox shouldn't say anything not written for her in advance and Bay shouldn't have plastered the missive on his website, as funny as it is. Can you imagine something like that getting posted on starwars.com?

Finally, we return to the realm of SW with another what-were-they-thinking moment. I won't link to it, but there's a video at CollegeHumor.com featuring stormtroopers looking back at the destruction of the Death Star, i.e. where they were and their "theories" on what happened. My problem? It's called "Stormtrooper 9/11" and it's posted right around the eighth anniversary of that date's atrocities. Worse yet, the starwars.com blog cheerfully linked to it and I saw a lot of Twits on Twitter laughing about it.

As some level-headed soul posted on the starwars.com blog, the 3000 people who died were real. I recall a skit on Saturday Night Live that aired in the '80s about Buckwheat's assassination. It was funny not because it made a joke of murder but because all of the satire was about media coverage of tragic events. A few years ago, I posted a list of "Death Star conspiracy theories" because it didn't make fun of 3000 people getting killed, it made fun of conspiracy theorists.

But this just left a really bad taste in my mouth and really, shouldn't the people at starwars.com know better?

Comments

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

These people have a disproportionate amount of power and influence in our society, that's why. In 40 years of life, I've never interrupted an awards show to humiliate someone else nor have I threatened to shove a tennis ball down someone else's throat. Nobody's perfect but there's a tendency to always play down the behavior of the famous and powerful because they are the famous and powerful, no matter how outrageous it is. I see all of the time how this kind of behavior influences young people who do look up to celebrities, which inevitably happens because we live in a media-saturated culture.

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

It's one thing to, say, lose your temper after having a bad day and snap at a gas station attendant. But to actually run on stage during someone else's moment of glory, steal the poor girl's mike, and humiliate her in front of millions just because you don't like the results? What excuses that behavior, for anyone? And as DP said, this is hardly the first time West has done something like this.

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

[i]But why insist that they behave perfectly 24/7? The average human being is incapable of this.[/i]

This isn't an isolated incident for Kayne West. This guy consistently acts like an @$$shole and often it happens on MTV. The network knows this and still invites him sto stuff. What he did here was just plain embarrassing. The only surprising thing was that he mentioned Beyonce instead of his one true love, himself.

Serena Williams behavior was also inexcuseable.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with the guys who run the official Star Wars type. Then again, they've always had a strange relationship with 9/11 or lack thereof if you know what I mean.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. *Sighs with exasperation.*

[ashmh.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Michael Bay and Megan Fox are teaming up for Transformers 3: Battle Of The Egos. It all got started when the not-so-bright Fox gnawed off the feeding hand by saying Bay is kind of like Adolf Hitler on the set of his films.


Megan Fox is not the first. Both Josh Harnett and Ewan Bremmer have complained about Bay's directorial style. Neither actor has ever had the desire to work with Bay again.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Bay has a reputation for being a grade-A jerk but Megan Fox is no prize herself. As many of the comments on Deadline Hollywood said, they deserve each other.

[ashmh.livejournal.com]

This isn't an isolated incident for Kayne West. This guy consistently acts like an @$$shole and often it happens on MTV. The network knows this and still invites him sto stuff. What he did here was just plain embarrassing. The only surprising thing was that he mentioned Beyonce instead of his one true love, himself.

Kayne West has been acting bizarre since his mother's death. It's pretty obvious what his problem is. The question remains whether he will get any help.

Serena Williams's behavior at the U.S. Open was appalling. Not even John McEnroe pulled that kind of nonsense in his day.


Many were appalled by the call against Williams and sympathized with her outburst. It's all a matter of opinion, isn't it?

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

His behavior predates his mother's death. He'd always complain after an awards show for not winning. He infamously blurted out on live television, during a show to benefit Hurricane Katrina's victims, that President Bush hates black people and wanted to kill them. He's always had a big ego and big mouth. I've read that he was seen swigging from a bottle prior to the VMAs but he never should have been allowed up on that stage in the first place. MTV knew he was a loose cannon.

I can understand Serena Williams being upset because it was a bad call. Telling the line judge she wants to shove a tennis ball down her f-ing throat was out of line by any standards of decency.

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

Roger Federer had a bit of an outburst at the U.S. Open too. Not nearly to the extent of Serena (he didn't threaten anyone) but came across as a foul-mouthed elitist.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this didn't get as much attention but it's bad sportsmanship all around.