Beloved stars who were real nasty you know whats

[mleach]

It's interesting to read about people like Reba and Garth being jerks, because as a whole, country artists are portrayed as being accessible and friendly to their fans.

On a radio engineering e-mail list a few years ago, there was a similar thread to this. The consensus seemed to be country artists tended to be nice people, not demanding... a couple of exceptions were the Judds and Lorrie Morgan.

But these radio engineers didn't have such high opinions of pop artists, who tended to be more demanding and harder to deal with. Of course there were exceptions, some were very nice and friendly. I wish I had saved that thread, it was just as interesting as this one.

Country vs. Pop stars....most male pop/rock stars really only care about one segment of the audience..the young sexy female.

The rock band Poison back in the 80s stopped by a local McDonalds not far from my house after a show one night. They asked all the guys to leave ( and the ugly fat girls too ), and only allowed the sexy young females to stay to enjoy their meals.

A former co-worker of mine used to work for a station who brought Guns & Roses into their town. They do more/less were the same. Actually from what my co-worker told me, if Guns & Roses had their way, the audence would be 100% female between 16 and 23 and in great shape, no fat chicks and any guy would be allowed to enter the concert.

I doubt country stars would be THAT picky.

 

[jwgreek8606]

Whoever, mentioned Michael McDonald I had a hard time with the quote thing of the page but were they talking about Michael Mcdonald from The Doobie Brothers or Michael McDonald the actor? Also, I read on Bob Eubanks' book, It's in the book bob, and he was talking about promoting a concert for Barry Manilow and from what I have read that after that concert he didn't want to deal with Manilow again.

 

[notalkallstatic]

Radar from M*A*S*H I met when I worked in the Florida Keys, he was miserable, not to me but to life in general. He'd come in and talk and bitch about everything. Not about people, but the weather wasn't right, it was too hot, the fishing was bad, his head hurt, he wasn't mean to people, but he just seemed miserable in General.

I've read and heard that among all the main actors on M*A*S*H, Gary Burghoff was the only one that seemed to rub everyone the wrong way. They all appreciated how well he portrayed the character of Radar, but he was apparently not well-liked between takes and behind the scenes.

The one M*A*S*H actor that I heard was real nice in person (but a real *** as a character) was Larry Linville (Major Frank Burns.)

Can anyone confirm or deny that?

Side note: Of all the characters on M*A*S*H I always loved Frank Burns.

 

[BobSacamano]

Whoever, mentioned Michael McDonald I had a hard time with the quote thing of the page but were they talking about Michael Mcdonald from The Doobie Brothers or Michael McDonald the actor? Also, I read on Bob Eubanks' book, It's in the book bob, and he was talking about promoting a concert for Barry Manilow and from what I have read that after that concert he didn't want to deal with Manilow again.

It's Michael McDonald the singer...laid back but a nice guy

 

[flashback]

It's interesting to read about people like Reba and Garth being jerks, because as a whole, country artists are portrayed as being accessible and friendly to their fans.

On a radio engineering e-mail list a few years ago, there was a similar thread to this. The consensus seemed to be country artists tended to be nice people, not demanding... a couple of exceptions were the Judds and Lorrie Morgan.

But these radio engineers didn't have such high opinions of pop artists, who tended to be more demanding and harder to deal with. Of course there were exceptions, some were very nice and friendly. I wish I had saved that thread, it was just as interesting as this one.

Country vs. Pop stars....most male pop/rock stars really only care about one segment of the audience..the young sexy female.

The rock band Poison back in the 80s stopped by a local McDonalds not far from my house after a show one night. They asked all the guys to leave ( and the ugly fat girls too ), and only allowed the sexy young females to stay to enjoy their meals.

A former co-worker of mine used to work for a station who brought Guns & Roses into their town. They do more/less were the same. Actually from what my co-worker told me, if Guns & Roses had their way, the audence would be 100% female between 16 and 23 and in great shape, no fat chicks and any guy would be allowed to enter the concert.

I doubt country stars would be THAT picky.

what I would like to know is how they made them leave.I would have stayed and finished my meal. I probally would have realy taken my time.

 

[Ultimajock]

...this may qualify here. At http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/the-steve-allen.html you can see the rider that Steve Allen used in the '80s whenever he made a personal appearance somewhere. Written in the third person, but you just know Steverino did the deed himself...

 

[bk77]

what I would like to know is how they made them leave.I would have stayed and finished my meal. I probally would have realy taken my time.

Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone as well ask customers to leave for any reason unless of course it a violation of one's civil rights. While a business such as a restuarant of course can't ask someone to leave because of the color, they can ask someone to leave because of age such as Disney did recently when they banned kids under the age of 11 from one of their upscale restaurants.

My guess here is that the band made some kind of demand on who can remain at the restaurant and the managers on duty told the customers that the band didn't want there some lame excuse "..we are closing early for a private party" or whatever.

If I had been there, I would have done the same thing. Eat slooooowly just to pi** them off !! LOL

 

[dhett]

what I would like to know is how they made them leave.I would have stayed and finished my meal. I probally would have realy taken my time.

Ditto. What are they going to do? Call the cops? Go ahead - I've got time.

 

[Jimme]

On two occasions, I had the chance to meet Kitty Carlisle Hart. Each time she was giving a standard "stump speech" on the importance of government funding for the arts. After both speeches (where there was a Q&A session), she stayed at least a half hour after the speeches to sign autographs and take questions. She asked each person where they lived, what they did for a living or where they went to school. While she was financially loaded and engaged in philanthropic activities mainly in the last few decades, (the royalties from Moss Hart's plays), I bet she always fancied herself an actress first and foremost. In 1992 or so, a revival of To Tell The Truth had been recently cancelled, I told her how great it was to see her again on TV, and asked if she had any plans for further acting work. "An actress' next job is always a phone call away," she told me. She also gave me several suggestions by which one with a finance/accounting background could help local arts associations, and said they would be love my help. When I told her I brought my own pen for her to use to sign my autgraph, she said, "Oh wonderful, aren't you a dear." and made sure to hand the pen back.

 

[LKellerIII]

On two occasions, I had the chance to meet Kitty Carlisle Hart. Each time she was giving a standard "stump speech" on the importance of government funding for the arts. After both speeches (where there was a Q&A session), she stayed at least a half hour after the speeches to sign autographs and take questions. She asked each person where they lived, what they did for a living or where they went to school. While she was financially loaded and engaged in philanthropic activities mainly in the last few decades, (the royalties from Moss Hart's plays), I bet she always fancied herself an actress first and foremost. In 1992 or so, a revival of To Tell The Truth had been recently cancelled, I told her how great it was to see her again on TV, and asked if she had any plans for further acting work. "An actress' next job is always a phone call away," she told me. She also gave me several suggestions by which one with a finance/accounting background could help local arts associations, and said they would be love my help. When I told her I brought my own pen for her to use to sign my autgraph, she said, "Oh wonderful, aren't you a dear." and made sure to hand the pen back.

I never met her, but many people loved her. She was still very active and healthy almost up to the day of her death at age 96, and was touring the country with her one woman show - mostly autobiographical, I believe. It was very well received, and reviewers throughout the country gave it rave reviews.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee) wasn't too well-liked
by the cast and crew of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Everett Greenbaum, who co-wrote many of the
scripts with the late Jim Fritzell, tells how one year
at the show's Christmas party, she said (where he
could hear) that the show would be good if it had
better writers.

After her retirement, some friends bought her a
house in Siler City, NC (yes, it's a real town and
I ought to know: I live there). Within six months
no one wanted anything to do with her. Her
neighbors weren't welcome in her house, and she
lived a rather reclusive life, mostly watching public
television and tending to sixteen cats. Once, when
she was in the hospital, she ordered her door kept
closed and a "No Visitors" sign posted. She also
liked to tell anyone who would listen that she should
have moved back to her native New York.

Ms. Bavier died in 1989, about a year before I moved
here. I know Ron Howard came to the funeral,
and Andy may have sent flowers but he made no effort
to even attend the visitation at the funeral home, even
though he was filming "Matlock" in Wilmington, about
150 miles away. I don't know of anyone else connected
with "The Andy Griffith Show" (except possibly Jim Nabors)
who came to town to pay their respects.

I wouldn't classify Frances Bavier as being nasty, just eccentric. The irony is that without her appearance on the "Andy Griffth Show", its most likely Bavier would have never achieved the recognition she did as "Aunt Bee" and thus would have ended up living on a small pension at some Actor's Retirement Center until she passed away.

 

[MHB]

what I would like to know is how they made them leave.I would have stayed and finished my meal. I probally would have realy taken my time.

Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone as well ask customers to leave for any reason unless of course it a violation of one's civil rights. While a business such as a restuarant of course can't ask someone to leave because of the color, they can ask someone to leave because of age such as Disney did recently when they banned kids under the age of 11 from one of their upscale restaurants.

My guess here is that the band made some kind of demand on who can remain at the restaurant and the managers on duty told the customers that the band didn't want there some lame excuse "..we are closing early for a private party" or whatever.

If I had been there, I would have done the same thing. Eat slooooowly just to pi** them off !! LOL

That still doesn't answer the question of why the management would go along with such a demand. That would be irritating paying customers who would be unlikely to return.

If I were one of the customers told to leave I would protest vehemently to management and would follow up with a complaint to higher management who would not be pleased. I have done it before.

 

[bk77]

That still doesn't answer the question of why the management would go along with such a demand. That would be irritating paying customers who would be unlikely to return.

If I were one of the customers told to leave I would protest vehemently to management and would follow up with a complaint to higher management who would not be pleased. I have done it before.

Take a look at the band in question. From what I read it was Poison. Actually it could have been any so-called hairband from that period of time. Who for the most part works in such places like fast food? KIDS !! Even in fast food management, not hard to find someone who still in high school and yet has such a position. And the way many kids look up to these bands as role models as who can do no wrong ( like how many girls today look at Hanna Montana ), Poison could have told these young employees to walk naked in the parking lot and I would bet most of them actually would because its Poison. And I could see these young people actually tell customers to leave only for the bragging rights to tell their friends in school "..hey guess who stopped by to eat at our McDonalds last night". Anything to impress their friends even if it was the wrong thing to do.

If I was in charge of that franchise and my employees would pull a stunt like that, I would fire all of them. But then again being kids, I doubt they would care.

 

[firepoint525]

If you're a band like Poison, and you can afford to eat anywhere, why would you go to McDonald's? You could afford to eat at almost any place you like, and you could reserve the entire place ahead of time if you liked! And the girls? Well, bring your own!

 

[chris12]

I've heard alot baout Bob Barker being a nasty person. From what I've haerd the upcoming Price Is Right dvd will not have any episodes with former models Dian Parkinson or Holly Hallstrom at his request to deny their existence.
Also, one story I've heard about Mr. T when he came to wrestle at the first Wrestlemania, both Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper have written in their books about how he threatened to walk out of the show when the security at MSG wouldn't allow two limos of his entire entourage backstage.

 

[bullet bob]

Based on what my daughter witnessed, Sally Struthers is a loser. Maybe it she was the one that Archie Bunker called "meathead".

If I would have witnessed Sally Struthers being a jerk I would have yelled, "little goil"

 

[bullet bob]

Harley Race snubbed me once. I was with a crowd of people and they all reached out their hands to Harley. He shook the hands of the people in front of me and then It was my turn. I said, hello Mr. Race. He stared at me and kept walking ignoring my extended hand. Why I'll never know. The people in front of me were equally surprised.

 

[Ultimajock]

Harley Race snubbed me once.

...didn't he always work heel? ;-) ...

 

[mleach]

If you're a band like Poison, and you can afford to eat anywhere, why would you go to McDonald's? You could afford to eat at almost any place you like, and you could reserve the entire place ahead of time if you liked! And the girls? Well, bring your own!

I don't the band could afford to eat anywhere other than McDonalds when they first started, well maybe Red Lobster LOL
Come to think of it I seem to remember hearing in the past that many of those hair/metal bands were didn't make a lot of money. For every successful band like Van Halen you had 5 or 6 that weren't. Remember Trixter? Bullet Boys? Winger?

Poison I assume is back to its McDonalds eating days now. I read yesterday they have an upcoming show in..Cheyene, Wyoming !! Far cry when they played Denver back in the 80s. And even there, back then they still couldn't sell out their show depsite the fact that Denver was ( at the time in the late 80s ) a major market for heavy metal rock music.

 

[drpickle]

Harley Race snubbed me once. I was with a crowd of people and they all reached out their hands to Harley. He shook the hands of the people in front of me and then It was my turn. I said, hello Mr. Race. He stared at me and kept walking ignoring my extended hand. Why I'll never know. The people in front of me were equally surprised.

I can see this happening. I had the pleasure of having dinner with Harley Race and his wife in Las Vegas at the CAC Banquet. He does not say much. He asked us all at the table where we were from. After each response he would nod and groan. When nudged by his wife he would talk more.