Entertainment For Lively Minds
The real tipping point...
Posted by peterthecook on 7 September 2010 - 10:01am.
For me, Rod Stewart didn't finally lose it when he started recording bad disco music, nor was it the dreadful American songbook nonsense that highlighted his fall from grace. It was actually when he was pictured, on holiday, wearing a sort of thong and a Hawaiian shirt.
George Best didn't lose it when he started drinking heavily and left Man Utd - it was when he started a column in the Mail on Sunday that my admiration nipped off.
With Paul McCartney, it wasn't the mullet or the bad 80s records that saddened me. It was when, as an Everton fan, he started supporting Liverpool in the 80s.
So...what was the REAL tipping point for your heroes?
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Stephen Fry
serialising his memoirs in one of Murdoch's papers.
Anyone really (usually male)
Who gets to the stage in life when they are never seen without a hat.
Th'Edge, Van the Man, Elton, RT...
The mad hatter
Sir,
As a hat wearer, I take grave exception.
I have a full head of ok greying locks but like the hat.
Like any other form of clothing it is a self expression thing - and the ladies like it.
don't forget whereever you hang your hat.................
I'm out of here mus'nt forget my hat.
Morrissey
At the weekend.
Bono - Live Aid. Absolute Beginners
I liked U2 up to Live Aid. Bono's ludicrous bit of audience participation - the dancing and being unable to get back on stage - killed it for me.
David Bowie's cringing performance on a typewriter in "Absolute Beginners" was the end for me. Thinking about it, his cringing performance in Live Aid was terrible too. And when did he read the Lord's Prayer? Too many to want to remember.
Chris Evans
Rather liked him until one morning he disciplined one of his minions live on air for fiddling expenses. Just what you fancy on the way to work. Yuck.
Iggy...
Insurance ads. Nuff said.
"Peter's friends"
Just about the whole cast of "Peter's friends" went onto the "never again" list for me. Fry, Laurie, Branagh, Slatterly et al. Certainly one of the worst films I've ever seen. Oddly enough Emma Thompson survived - I rather like her.
At the time
it was Abacab, but age seems to have mellowed me:
Miranda Sawyer
for being a talking head next to Gary Bushell and Ann Widdecombe on that 'Executuion of Gary Glitter' programme spouting absolute inane guff
And me - for watching it
Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes
They were on Saturday Superstore and spent the entire time wearing dark sunglasses, chewing open-mouthed (Le Bon) and basically being too cool for all this tiresome nonsense.
Yes, they were probably "tired" and suffering from a "cold", but there were real fans in the studio - and they just acted like berks.