Worst thing said by beloved actor (or celebrity)?

John Wayne is beloved by film fans the world over, particular those whose favourite genre is the Western.

However, in an interview in Playboy magazine in 1971, Wayne said the following

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”

Pretty shocking.

What do you think is the worst, most offensive comment ever made by a celebrity, who is still beloved in the public's eye?

Ipso

George Washington: don't believe everything you read on the internet.

The_Valeyard

Probably a drunken Mel Gibson blaming the Jews for everything.

BorneTobyWilde

He's some cowboy .

Didn't Sean Connery once say that he saw absolutely nothing wrong with slapping women?

Falthyron

Deleted User wrote: »

Didn't Sean Connery once say that he saw absolutely nothing wrong with slapping women?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38

Falthyron

Falthyron wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38

Deleted User wrote: »

Didn't Sean Connery once say that he saw absolutely nothing wrong with slapping women?

Ouch! That is pretty bad, alright.

Ipso

Charlie Sheen is a bit of a nutter, full on tin foil poisoning.
Oliver Stone and his Castro, Chavez brown nosing is a bit repulsive.

darkdubh

Not an actor,and I'm not really a fan but its hard to top Eric Claptons racist onstage outburst at a concert in 1976 for outragous comments by a celebrity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9IZyx_-Os

wonski

darkdubh wrote: »

Not an actor,and I'm not really a fan but its hard to top Eric Claptons racist onstage outburst at a concert in 1976 for outragous comments by a celebrity.

Could you write it down for us, please?

I doubt anyone is going to watch more than 10 seconds of this "reconstruction" of events tbh.

darkdubh

Its two and a half minutes long.If you can't be bothered looking at it then Google what he said.

The_Valeyard

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Probably a drunken Mel Gibson blaming the Jews for everything.

I agree, pretty damning stuff, but it cost him his 'beloved' status.

Peter Anthony

So the PC Brigade are now turning back in time to feign outrage at comments made 45 years ago in a different era?

Nonsense thread, get a life.

xper

Hugh Grant: "Get in"

Peter Anthony

Peter Anthony wrote: »

So the PC Brigade are now turning back in time to feign outrage at comments made 45 years ago in a different era?

Nonsense thread, get a life.

Faux outrage at apparent feigned outrage; this outrages me.

The Sun King

Peter Anthony wrote: »

So the PC Brigade are now turning back in time to feign outrage at comments made 45 years ago in a different era?

Nonsense thread, get a life.

This outrageous statement is brought to you by beloved actor Peter Anthony, who starred in classics such as "The Temptations", "Stark" and From "The Earth to the Moon".

Agent Coulson

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Probably a drunken Mel Gibson blaming the Jews for everything.

His Road to Redemption starts here..

https://twitter.com/goldenglobes/status/684103432823640065

Brief_Lives

darkdubh wrote: »

Its two and a half minutes long.If you can't be bothered looking at it then Google what he said.

Seriously, write it down.. Not all of us are at home eating cornflakes, some of us are on trains...

crybaby

Brief_Lives wrote: »

Seriously, write it down.. Not all of us are at home eating cornflakes, some of us are on trains...

Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. Wogs I mean, I'm looking at you. Where are you? I'm sorry but some ****ing wog...Arab grabbed my wife's bum, you know? Surely got to be said, yeah this is what all the ****ing foreigners and wogs over here are like, just disgusting, that's just the truth, yeah. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. You ****ing (indecipherable). I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. ****ing wogs, man. ****ing Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and ****ing Jamaicans and ****ing (indecipherable) don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don't want ****ing wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for ****'s sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he's a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!

Duggy747

Clint Eastwood's joke on stage with invisible Obama was pretty cringey and went down like a lead balloon with people.

darkdubh

Brief_Lives wrote: »

Seriously, write it down.. Not all of us are at home eating cornflakes, some of us are on trains...

Read a book then.

Wedwood

Charlton Heston's presidency of the National Rifle Association, culminating with his speech holding up his rifle saying they'd only get it 'from his cold dead hand'.

This was his response to calls for gun control after yet another school massacre.

ohnonotgmail

Wedwood wrote: »

Charlton Heston's presidency of the National Rifle Association, culminating with his speech holding up his rifle saying they'd only get it 'from his cold dead hand'.

This was his response to calls for gun control after yet another school massacre.

you really shouldn't be depending on Michael Moore for your 'facts'

sbsquarepants

Apparently Jennifer Lawrence said she masturbates while watching Larry David.

I never thought it could be possible for anything to ruin a mental image of something like that for me - but there you go, it's ruined!:mad:

sbsquarepants

crybaby wrote: »

Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. Wogs I mean, I'm looking at you. Where are you? I'm sorry but some ****ing wog...Arab grabbed my wife's bum, you know? Surely got to be said, yeah this is what all the ****ing foreigners and wogs over here are like, just disgusting, that's just the truth, yeah. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. You ****ing (indecipherable). I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. ****ing wogs, man. ****ing Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and ****ing Jamaicans and ****ing (indecipherable) don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don't want ****ing wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for ****'s sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he's a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!

Jesus, that's a bit heavy alright!

Any chance he was just joking?

Theboinkmaster

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you really shouldn't be depending on Michael Moore for your 'facts'

what was inaccurate about what he posted?

ohnonotgmail

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

what was inaccurate about what he posted?

pretty much the whole lot.

Wedwood

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you really shouldn't be depending on Michael Moore for your 'facts'

Actually, Heston's comments were publicised before Moore made his Bowling for Columbine movie in 2002. It was on a TV programme called 'the news' in 2000, 2 years beforehand.

The Columbine massacre happened in 1999, Presidential candidate Al Gore said gun control was part of his election campaign on foot of the Columbine massacre and Heston who was chair of the NRA in 2000 gave his response in the below video clip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0SwS-ff2Q

ohnonotgmail

Wedwood wrote: »

Actually, Heston's comments were publicised before Moore made his Bowling for Columbine movie in 2002. It was on a TV programme called 'the news' in 2000, 2 years beforehand.

The Columbine massacre happened in 1999, Presidential candidate Al Gore said gun control was part of his election campaign on foot of the Columbine massacre and Heston who was chair of the NRA in 2000 gave his response in the below video clip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0SwS-ff2Q

Except that Bowling for Columbine gives the impression that heston said it in the aftermath of columbine and in direct reference to those events. Which is not true. Only one example of the very dodgy editing done by Moore. In short, Moore has been proven to be dishonest and should be stripped of his oscar.

The Sun King

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Except that Bowling for Columbine gives the impression that heston said it in the aftermath of columbine and in direct reference to those events. Which is not true. Only one example of the very dodgy editing done by Moore. In short, Moore has been proven to be dishonest and should be stripped of his oscar.

The poster never mentioned BfC or Michael Moore... You did.

ohnonotgmail

The Sun King wrote: »

The poster never mentioned BfC or Michael Moore... You did.

he made this claim

This was his response to calls for gun control after yet another school massacre.

which originates in BFC.

Wedwood

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

he made this claim



which originates in BFC.

Calm down, calm down ......

The Columbine children were killed in school by gun nut job who used his parents gun bought in local store, Al Gore was spurred to seek gun control laws in his subsequent presidential campaign, Charlton Heston responded to Gore with his 'cold dead hand' speech. 2 years later Michael Moore made his movie about it, where he confronted an early Alzheimer's Heston on his earlier remarks.

Whatever way you look at it, Heston thought it was more important to allow nut jobs their right to bear arms ahead of protecting kids in school by taking the guns out of circulation.

ohnonotgmail

Wedwood wrote: »

Calm down, calm down ......

The Columbine children were killed in school by gun nut job who used his parents gun bought in local store, Al Gore was spurred to seek gun control laws in his subsequent presidential campaign, Charlton Heston responded to Gore with his 'cold dead hand' speech. 2 years later Michael Moore made his movie about it, where he confronted an early Alzheimer's Heston on his earlier remarks.

Whatever way you look at it, Heston thought it was more important to allow nut jobs their right to bear arms ahead of protecting kids in school by taking the guns out of circulation.

I can see by the language you use that there is no point in discussing this with you.

Ipso

Wedwood wrote: »

Calm down, calm down ......

The Columbine children were killed in school by gun nut job who used his parents gun bought in local store, Al Gore was spurred to seek gun control laws in his subsequent presidential campaign, Charlton Heston responded to Gore with his 'cold dead hand' speech. 2 years later Michael Moore made his movie about it, where he confronted an early Alzheimer's Heston on his earlier remarks.

Whatever way you look at it, Heston thought it was more important to allow nut jobs their right to bear arms ahead of protecting kids in school by taking the guns out of circulation.

How was Al Gore going to take guns out of circulation?

The Sun King

Ipso wrote: »

How was Al Gore going to take guns out of circulation?

What bearing do the practicalities, or impracticalities, of Gore's proposal have on what the poster said about Heston?

Ipso

The Sun King wrote: »

What bearing do the practicalities, or impracticalities, of Gore's proposal have on what the poster said about Heston?

None, sorry it's off topic. I just thought it was a strange statement.

I know he has just died, and people may not want to dwell on something he said 40 years ago, but David Bowie once said the following in an interview in 1976.

“I’d love to enter politics. I will one day. I’d adore to be Prime Minister. And, yes, I believe very strongly in fascism. The only way we can speed up the sort of liberalism that’s hanging foul in the air at the moment is to speed up the progress of a right-wing, totally dictatorial tyranny and get it over as fast as possible. People have always responded with greater efficiency under a regimental leadership. A liberal wastes time saying, 'Well, now, what ideas have you got?' Show them what to do, for God’s sake. If you don’t, nothing will get done. I can’t stand people just hanging about. Television is the most successful fascist, needless to say. Rock stars are fascists, too. Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars...

Think about it. Look at some of his films and see how he moved. I think he was quite as good as Jagger. It’s astounding. And, boy, when he hit that stage, he worked an audience. Good God! He was no politician. He was a media artist himself. He used politics and theatrics and created this thing that governed and controlled the show for those 12 years. The world will never see his like.”

In his defence, he later attributed these comments to drugs.

sbsquarepants

That hitler fella, say what you want but he certainly knew how to get shít done. Had his bad points too though I'm sure:D