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Courts Disclose Dirt on Fallen Stars
Fox News ^ | 12/07/02 | Kathy Evans

Posted on 12/07/2002 1:12:13 PM PST by hoosierskypilot

NEW YORK — Winona Ryder's alias for buying prescription painkillers is "Emily Thompson." Christian Slater has been known to fear Germans when he's under the influence. And despite his vigorous political stumping during Election 2000, Ben Affleck hadn't voted in years.

This isn't the stuff of trashy tabloids. It's the juicy dish found in court documents and other public records when the stars wind up acting shady.

Web sites like Court TV's The Smoking Gun lunge at the chance to post the papers that offer such meaty tidbits about the rich and famous. TSG Co-founder and managing editor Daniel Green said documents provide insight that's often missing from the PR spin the public sees.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters
KEYWORDS: courts; dirt; stars
What moron thinks that because a person is an actor, said person has any redeeming qualities, period? The actor's sole talent is to escape from reality, for a living. That doesn't mean they have anything meaningful to say about politics, or that their lives should be held up to scrutiny. I've got three words for ya: "Get a life!"
1 posted on 12/07/2002 1:12:13 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
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The actor's sole talent is to escape from reality, for a living.

No wonder so many actors are liberals.

2 posted on 12/07/2002 1:18:59 PM PST by jigsaw
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What moron thinks that because a person is an actor, said person has any redeeming qualities, period?

President Ronald Reagan and General James Stewart were actors. So was Bob Hope, who entertained a lot of troops. Lee Marvin was a decorated marine who fought in the Pacific theatre. Ed Kemmer (tv character actor) was a fighter pilot who received the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. Walter Matthau earned six combat stars flying bomber missions as a gunner. I'm sure you know about Audie Murphy.

The point I'm trying to make is that it's the person, not the profession, to which redeeming qualities, or the lack of them, should be associated with.
3 posted on 12/07/2002 2:28:56 PM PST by pt17
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Amen.

It was one of the Beatles who asked (in the early 60's) after a reporter quizzed him about Vietnam (paraphrase) "why do American's care what celebrities have to say about anything". Good question.
4 posted on 12/07/2002 2:32:30 PM PST by Guillermo
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General James Stewart?

You mean Jimmy Stewart, as in It's a Wonderful Life?

I did not know he was a "General".

I thought that, at age 33, he enlisted as private and rose to colonel in the Air Force, leading one thousand plane strikes against Germany, and that he won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

5 posted on 12/07/2002 2:35:47 PM PST by PackerBoy
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James M. Stewart, the actor, ended the war with 20 combat missions. He remained in the USAF Reserve and was promoted to Brigadier General on Jul. 23, 1959. He retired on May 31, 1968.


6 posted on 12/07/2002 2:58:24 PM PST by pt17
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Thanks for the info on J. Stewart. I knew I liked that guy. Let me clarify, however, an entertainer should not be consulted for an opinion or campaigning merely because he/she entertains. (Like that better?)
7 posted on 12/07/2002 4:32:37 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
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Dumb Freepers are out tonight!
8 posted on 12/07/2002 8:19:21 PM PST by battlegearboat
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An entertainer should not be consulted for an opinion or campaigning merely because he/she entertains.

You've nailed it.
9 posted on 12/08/2002 12:18:57 AM PST by pt17
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