What news about a celebrity shocked you

Troy McClure and his fish fetish.

I guess I must expect the worst from celebs, because I am hardly ever surprised when I here something about them.

I guess the one thing that kinda surprised me was to here that Rose McGowan was raised in some kind of cult. That was odd news.

That one of Errol Flynn's pre-H-wood jobs was biting the testicles off baby lambs.

When people started telling me Spielberg-is-a-jerk stories, that shocked me the most. Growing up, I always pictured him and Michael Eisner (since he hosted the Disney Sunday Movie) as really great, wonderful men.

Then you move out here and find out that, as the quote goes, you have to stab a lot of people in the back to stay on top no matter how nice a guy you are.

It always shocks me when I like a celebrity, too. Kevin Nealon was hilarious, Jet Li was just amazing to be around, Angelina Jolie was just really cool and didn't exude any of the sleb crap she's associated with, Hubert Selby Jr. on the "Requiem for a Dream" junket was fucking cool as hell, Denise Richards is a lot sharper than people give her credit for being...

...but that's about it with a few exceptions.

Other surprises:

Julia Roberts is gorgeous in person, though I never found her all that attractive on screen.

With so many SHORT actors looking tall on screen, it's interesting to meet a taller actor like John Travolta or especially Jim Carrey.

Meeting celebrated directors and finding them to be whiny, art-y types who have been held up by good producers, editors, and screenwriters for so long.

Then meeting directors who turn out to be the nicest, most gracious guys around, ie. Steven Soderbergh, Joe Dante, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Frank Darabont, and others.

Finding out that somebody really is shy as hell and that it's not just an "I don't talk to the press"-thing.

The biggest shocker is when you find out somebody's actually a really sharp cookie no matter what the press might've said about them or the image they're trying to cultivate.

Smilin' Jack, I'd like to hear some of those stories... if you're willing to tell....

This wasn't really a celebrity, but I was pretty shocked when a Cylon Raider grabbed my ass at Universal Studios when I was about 14 or 15.

Damned, over-sexed robots!

By your command...

It sucks that Ford is playing musical bimbos right now.

Guy uses his entire career to cultivate this anti-celeb, anti Hollywood, honorable, righteous vibe...and he's basically been fucking his wife over and fucking skinny trollops...hanging out in titty bars with Marilyn Manson...sad shit.

When I found out that Jamie Lee Curtis really is a hermaphrodite!

Yeah the Jodie Foster lesbian thing kinda bummed me out too. When Silence came out, I was 16 and had such a crush on her. Then when I first heard rumors that she was a lesbian, I just figured they probably weren't true and that they just stemmed from the fact that she didn't parade whoever she was dating or living with for the cameras for shameless publicity grabs like most celebs seem to do. But later, those rumors became increasingly more likely to be true. Sad.

Also when River Phoenix died. It was shocking not only that he died so young, but the way he died. When I first heard he died, and no autopsy had been performed, I figured it was just some kind of terminal disease that killed. But when I found out it was an O.D., I was shocked. I mean he seemed like such a stand up, well-grounded guy judging from his interviews (he didn't even eat meat) and the roles he took. Instead of going for the cheap teeny-bopper route like so many of his comtemparies (namely the two Coreys), he chose edgy and interesting roles and really looked like he had a great future ahead of him.

And Smilin' Jack Ruby, please dish the dirt. Come on.

If it proved traumatic in any way I'm sorry, but that is really, really funny.

There's no animal product in smack.

That Morgan Freeman's a dick in person.

That Russell Crowe hit on Leelee Sobieski.

Paul is dead.

Dolph Lundgren has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Who woulda guessed that from watching I Come In Peace?

Any celebrity announcing they're a member of the CoS leaves me kind of shocked. But only for fifteen seconds or so.

Not really in keepin with the topic, but having the MENSA folks reject Sharon Stone's claims of being a member is priceless. I always hated her, and now I know she's an idiot to boot

Bill Cosby is a gigantic Asshole.

When Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife, and how much of a loon she was. I watched part of the E! THS the other day on Phil Hartman, and I also was somewhat shocked to hear that he was quite the ladies man.

Chris Farley and John Belushi's deaths also were abrupt, but not so unexpected (at least by me).

Finding out Robert Reed was gay, and hearing about how much he hated the Brady Bunch.

Dusty Rhodes is an asshole.

Ric Flair's hair really is that color.

Bob Crane's bizarre sex life.

... that Chris Tucker does not smoke copious amounts of weed.