Whose a celebrity whose popularity mystifies you?

POSTED BY: reginaroadie
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REGINAROADIE

Sunday, May 7, 2006 8:01 PM

Here's another actors thread you can jump onto. Whose is a celebrity (be it actor, singer, figure in the public eye, etc.) whose fame you can't understand. Someone who when you see, you think to yourself "Why the Hell are they famous."

I know I can go with the obvious ones, but for me, one person whose popularity I can't understand is Ryan Reynolds. Why the Hell is this guy considered funny. I see him in a movie and I can only think to myself that he's kind of a poor man's Jason Lee. If you look closely, Jason and Ryan have a lot of the same characteristics. The same verbal tics and body language and such. But Lee just have that extra thing. That little bit of subversive attitude that makes him who he is. He plays dicks, but you can't help but like them.

On the other hand, when Ryan plays a dick, he's a dick and no amount of mugging or whatever the Hell he does can change that.

Please tell me I'm not alone in this.

So whose a celebrity whose fame mystifies you?

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COPILOT

Sunday, May 7, 2006 8:15 PM

Julie fracking Roberts! No idea why people still watch her movies. I love pretty women but since then it seems like she just gave up after that.

An I carried such a torch

KHYRON

Sunday, May 7, 2006 8:18 PM

Pretty much any A-list celebrity who can't act, which is almost all of them.

Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.

PERSEPHONE736

Sunday, May 7, 2006 8:20 PM

Ashlee Simpson...need I say more?

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COPILOT

Sunday, May 7, 2006 8:49 PM

I reread the original post and I laughed my ass off. I totally missed the Jason Lee part.

An I carried such a torch

JOSSISAGOD

Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:11 PM

I'm going with one that is a little more obvious. Britney Spears, as Wash would say,"How did (her) brain even learn human speech!"

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

PERSEPHONE736

Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:19 PM

I totally agree on that one. I'm still wondering why anyone let her star in her own movie!

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PENGUIN

Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:30 PM

There's the obvious one....Paris Hilton.

JOSSISAGOD

Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:35 PM

Agreed!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

EMBERS

Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
There's the obvious one....Paris Hilton.

yeah, that is my pick too...
she can't act
she has no talent for anything

South Park did a whole show about the fact that she is only famous for being a stupid wh*re

not to be all judgemental, but it kills me to see her on TV all the time. Nothing makes me change the channel faster...
well, also Donald Trump...I change the channel when I see him too.

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