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Or, turning against them would be an admission that he was taken for a ride, and their proclivity to sue means he's risking court costs and years of headache, I don't subscribe to nefarious plots when it's just more likely that he's too embarrassed to make waves.
 
Tragi-Chan said:
Yeah, I feel a bit sorry for Travolta. Cruise is an android, Jenna Elfman and Kirstie Alley come across as kind of assholes. Travolta seems, on the whole, to be a nice guy. The trouble is that he must be aware of the accusations against the Church, and he's one of the people who could bring some influence to bear against Miscavige, yet he does nothing. One could speculate that the cult has info he might not want leaked.
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Travolta is also obviously promiscuously gay and from the generation of actors who still give a shit about being outed, so they basically have him under their thumb, even after his autistic son Jett basically died from Scientology quackery.
 
AnOminous said:
Travolta is also obviously promiscuously gay and from the generation of actors who still give a shit about being outed, so they basically have him under their thumb, even after his autistic son Jett basically died from Scientology quackery.
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Yeah. The only way Travolta'll be able to win on this one is if he essentially confesses everything in person to the world before Scientology can hit back first. He'll still be hit hard, but if he ever wants justice for his son, he has no choice.
 
Tragi-Chan said:
Yeah, I feel a bit sorry for Travolta. Cruise is an android, Jenna Elfman and Kirstie Alley come across as kind of assholes. Travolta seems, on the whole, to be a nice guy. The trouble is that he must be aware of the accusations against the Church, and he's one of the people who could bring some influence to bear against Miscavige, yet he does nothing. One could speculate that the cult has info he might not want leaked.
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Agreed. Out of all the Scientology lolcows, he seems the least crazy and douchey. Going Clear made it seem like he joined Scientology when he was a confused young guy who didn't know his place in the world, only to be completely sucked up into it. He might know Scientology is complete bullshit but it's not much he can do unless he wants to take a big risk because all the dirt that they have on him. As for the gay thing, Hollywood might be a lot more accepting of homosexuality these days but for a older actor, it's still easier said than done, especially since he's married. Not to mention that other scientologists have been known to cut family members and close friends out of their lives for leaving the church (Disconnecting they call it) and the church still often harasses ex members.

Obviously I don't know the whole story but it seems like Travolta is in a shitty situation.
 
Has anyone mentioned Brendan Fraser yet?
Pretty notable comedy/adventure star in the 90's (George of the Jungle, The Mummy), then he started appearing in bombs like Monkeybone, Looney Toons Back in Action, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and Mummy 3.
Eventually he dropped off the face of the earth, but recently has been fucked financially over divorce alimonies and has been appearing in History Channel TV movies. That truly is a fall from grace
Also, Tom Green's meteoric rise and fall is pretty funny
 
I was wondering about Tom Green the other day, but, he came and went so fast, I don't think it was a rise and fall as much as a flash fire.
 
TowinKarz said:
I was wondering about Tom Green the other day, but, he came and went so fast, I don't think it was a rise and fall as much as a flash fire.
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Last I remember, Tom Green hosted a talk show (Tom Green Live) from 2013-2014, and, for the most part, was fairly normal as a host. He's apparently pretty much ditched the "HUR DUR, LOOK HOW RETARDED I AM AMERICA!" persona from his Tom Green Show days.
 
cukurcuka said:
Has anyone mentioned Brendan Fraser yet?
Pretty notable comedy/adventure star in the 90's (George of the Jungle, The Mummy), then he started appearing in bombs like Monkeybone, Looney Toons Back in Action, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and Mummy 3.
Eventually he dropped off the face of the earth, but recently has been fucked financially over divorce alimonies and has been appearing in History Channel TV movies. That truly is a fall from grace
Also, Tom Green's meteoric rise and fall is pretty funny
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Has Fraser done anything that would really qualify him as a lolcow? 90s/00s film stars who've ended up doing crappy TV work are a dime a dozen, and other than him claiming that studios were passing him over for roles because they prefer short guys, I don't really recall him doing or saying anything that dumb.

Tom Green's career was really built more around intentional dumbassery, although he did do quite the dickish thing by actively encouraging Dennis Rodman to fall off the wagon when they were on Celebrity Apprentice together.
 
cukurcuka said:
Has anyone mentioned Brendan Fraser yet?
Pretty notable comedy/adventure star in the 90's (George of the Jungle, The Mummy), then he started appearing in bombs like Monkeybone, Looney Toons Back in Action, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and Mummy 3.
Eventually he dropped off the face of the earth, but recently has been fucked financially over divorce alimonies and has been appearing in History Channel TV movies. That truly is a fall from grace
Also, Tom Green's meteoric rise and fall is pretty funny
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Brenden Fraser makes me glad that I was born a girl because my mother liked the name "Brenden" thanks to him and strongly considered naming me that had I been born a boy. Thanks early 90s.

Also wasn't he gonna appear at DashCon 2015 before it got canned or was that just a rumor?
 
cukurcuka said:
Has anyone mentioned Brendan Fraser yet?
Pretty notable comedy/adventure star in the 90's (George of the Jungle, The Mummy), then he started appearing in bombs like Monkeybone, Looney Toons Back in Action, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and Mummy 3.
Eventually he dropped off the face of the earth, but recently has been fucked financially over divorce alimonies and has been appearing in History Channel TV movies. That truly is a fall from grace
Also, Tom Green's meteoric rise and fall is pretty funny
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I also remember when he did more serious work like School Ties and Gods and Monsters. Back when he had a nice bod and appeared naked in his films. Now he's all doughy.
 
How is it that we're 15 pages in a there has absolutely been no mention of Vincent Gallo? Granted, I know he had his own thread a year or two back but dear Lord, this man hits all the checkpoints.
  • In 2003, did a horribly pretentious and just awful art house him called The Brown Bunny. The film is pretty infamous because it has an unstimulated sex scene in which Chole Sevingy, the female lead, goes down on Gallo (Geez, I hope you got paid a lot, lady cause ew). Roger Ebert gave it a pretty bad review and Gallo decides to get personal by calling Ebert ""fat pig with the physique of a slave trader." Ebert pretty much rekts him by saying that while he is fat, he will one day be thin but Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
  • Offers himself as as escort for about $50,000. Here's what it says on his website:
    • Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with one of the actors? The way they looked or a character they played? Afterwards you thought of them over and over. Daydreaming, imagining things, sexy things. When I was very young I was madly in love with Tuesday Weld and Charlotte Rampling. On my 14th birthday I went to see the film Rolling Thunder and had my biggest crush of all on the actress Linda Haynes. I wished and wished and wished everyday that I could meet all these girls. I thought of a lot of sexy things with Susan Blakely after seeing her in Lords of Flatbush. In my mind I could do with her anything I wanted to do. So believe me, I know and understand what it's like to wish and dream about spending time with a movie star. Doing things that couples do. Couples in love. At least couples where the guy is hot and knows how to handle a chick.
  • Also at one point offered his sperm in case you want him to be the father of your child. It was about 1 million dollars. He claimed that his sperm was top notch because his dick was about 8 inches and that if the child was a boy, his dick would be the size of his dad's (And I thought the author of Assigned Male was creepily obsessed with children's genitals). Also revealed himself to be quite a racist because of his "no darkies" policy in regards to selling his sperm.
  • Wishes he looked more like George Will, a very conservative journalist. And is general a hardcore republican. Of course being a republican doesn't make you a lolcow but like autism, it overlaps a lot.
  • Overall is just very arrogant and thinks he way more important than he actually is.
 
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TowinKarz said:
Or, turning against them would be an admission that he was taken for a ride, and their proclivity to sue means he's risking court costs and years of headache, I don't subscribe to nefarious plots when it's just more likely that he's too embarrassed to make waves.
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It's not actually that far fetched though, Scientology is known to keep information divulged during auditing to blackmail would be defectors.

Anyway in relation to all the 70s rock stars I'm pretty sure a LOT of celebrities from that era have done some really despicable things which have never been uncovered.
The dark side of the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s is seldom mentioned, from what I've seen it was a surprisingly commonly held (that is in certain circles) view at that time that children could in fact consent and that age of consent laws were not in line with sexual freedom. I listened to a radio documentary about this where they interviewed a child who's parents would have big decadent sex parties and directly involve him from a very young age. And this wasn't some insane fringe thing, they apparently had money and clearly nobody at those parties ever reported them.
That era just has this air of decadence and dirt and more often than not it seems the positive sides of it are glamorized while the negative ones are ignored. It's fun to think about the insane drug fueled rampages but not so fun when the victims of those rampages are considered.
 
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Raises the question, what's worse? Washed up celebrities that won't admit they're washed-up? or FANS of washed-up celebrities that won't admit they're washed-up?
 
I used to be a former celebrity...

Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show
I'm Pepe the frog [Pepe]
Pepe the frog
Don't act like you don't know
And I'm trying to hold on to my past
It's been so long
I don't think I'm gonna last
I guess I'll just try
And make you understand
That I'm more frog than a man
Or I'm more man than a frog
Pepe
 
Pepe le Frog said:
I used to be a former celebrity...

Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show
I'm Pepe the frog [Pepe]
Pepe the frog
Don't act like you don't know
And I'm trying to hold on to my past
It's been so long
I don't think I'm gonna last
I guess I'll just try
And make you understand
That I'm more frog than a man
Or I'm more man than a frog
Pepe
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hi glaive
 
TowinKarz said:
Raises the question, what's worse? Washed up celebrities that won't admit they're washed-up? or FANS of washed-up celebrities that won't admit they're washed-up?
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The fans, I guess. You have to be strongly deluded if you can't come to terms with the fact that your hero's kind of fucked up. It doesn't really take away from the fact they've produced terrific stuff; you have to see them as people and not untouchable heroes.
 
Pepe le Frog said:
I used to be a former celebrity...

Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show
I'm Pepe the frog [Pepe]
Pepe the frog
Don't act like you don't know
And I'm trying to hold on to my past
It's been so long
I don't think I'm gonna last
I guess I'll just try
And make you understand
That I'm more frog than a man
Or I'm more man than a frog
Pepe
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hi bojack
 
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