#44391 by Craig Maxim
Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:45 am
Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:45 am
Ringo Starr doesn't want your fan mail
Seriously, it will end up in the trash. "It's gonna be tossed," Starr told fans via a video on . You have until Oct. 20, the "Beatles" man said. And at least he tried to be polite: "I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing."
Avril Lavigne disses fans who cop her style
...but she denies it. The singer told Newsweek that she read that she was supposedly mad at her fans for dressing like her. "[Then] they quoted Hilary Duff saying, ‘Avril needs to appreciate her fans more and blah, blah, blah, blah.’ I’m like, excuse me? First off, it’s not even true. I never said that. And second, who the hell cares what she has to say about my fans? Whatever. Hilary Duff’s such a goody-goody, such a mommy’s girl.”
Don't ask Will Ferrell to sign -- he won't!
At least Ringo Starr spent decades autographing memorabiliia before deciding that it was time to stop. Autograph magazine last year named funny man Will Ferrell the worst celebrity signer in its annual list of the “10 Best and 10 Worst Hollywood Signers." (He was followed by Tobey Maguire, Joaquin Phoenix, William Shatner, Renee Zellweger, John Malkovich, Julie Andrews, Bruce Willis, Teri Hatcher and Scarlett Johansson.)
Jewel scolds fans for talking during a show
During a June 2004 concert at Washington's Chateau Ste. Michelle, Jewel snapped at the crowd: "OK, how about the people talking while I'm singing?" The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported the singer continued, "I'm trying very hard for you. I don't have a band and I'm singing my little guts out for you. If you're a guy and you're trying to talk to your date because you hope she likes you if she doesn't like you by now, it's too late, so just shut up."
'Brokeback Mountain' author doesn't want to read your 'pornish'fan fiction
Annie Proulx, the woman who wrote the short story inspiring theOscar-winning film "Brokeback Mountain," told the Wall StreetJournal that fans attempts to "fix" her story has become a "sourceof constant irritation in my private life." "There arecountless people out there who think the story is open range toexplore their fantasies and to correct what they see as anunbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastlymanuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting meto reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. Theycertainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you'vegot to stand it."
Beware Amy Winehouse's right jab
Get close to the troubled singer and you could get punched. During a concert this summer at England's Glastonbury Festival, Winehouse appeared to repeatedly slug a fan who apparently "lashed out after being touched by a fan". No charges were filed.
Lily Allen punches a heckler
Amy Winehouse isn't the only British pop star unafraid to get into a fight. OK Magazine reported that Allen punched "a female heckler" in London. Or at least tried to. According to the magazine, "the jab didn't connect, and [Allen's] friends managed to restrain her and get her into a car." But fans shouldn't get complacent: She did kick a photographer last year.
William Shatner slams ' Star Trek' fans on ' Saturday Night Live'
It was a joke. In a 1986 "SNL" sketch, William Shatner played himself at a Star Trek convention where he told Trekkies to "get a life." "I mean, for crying out loud, it was just a TV show!"
Tori Amos boots the young and the restless
While performing in San Diego last year, she had two front-row ticket holders kicked out after they kept entering and exiting the concert hall. Once Amos had enough, she reportedly stopped halfway through a song yelled, " It's a privilege to sit in the front row and I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music, get the [expletive] out!"
Creed gives fans a cruddy concert, gets sued by fans
At least four fans fought back after sitting through what even Creed admitted was a subpar show in 2002. According to EW. com, the fans who filed suit said that lead singer Scott Stapp "was so out of it that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song. Stapp left the stage on several occasions during songs for long periods of time, rolled around on the floor of the stage in apparent pain or distress, and appeared to pass out on stage during the performance.''
