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50 dumbest people in Hollywood
opinionista:
The New York Daily News published a list of 50 stars they consider the dumbest in Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan tops it. I thought we could do our own list, just for fun.
This is the NYDN list:
Daily News lists Top 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood
BY JO PIAZZA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, November 30th 2007, 4:00 AM
And the most contrived list of the week award goes to ...
Entertainment Weekly magazine, which waded through the intellectual wasteland of Los Angeles to create a list of the 50 smartest people in Hollywood, released the list Thursday.
"Knocked Up" creator Judd Apatow leads the brainiac pack, with Ben Affleck holding up the back end at No. 50.
The mag asserts that smart could mean any number of things: "It encompasses book smarts and street smarts, financial genius and emotional intelligence."
Picking through the cerebral corridors of America's most vapid city seems a daunting task.
An easier route: The "Top 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood."
Dumb doesn't necessarily correspond to a low IQ. There are poor life choices, style slipups and mishaps under the influence to take into account.
Topping a highly unscientific Daily News list of the "Dumbest" is Lindsay Lohan. The reason: poor movie choices ("I Know Who Killed Me"), delinquent behavior and bad taste in men.
The rest of the top five:
2. Kim Kardashian - because it is sad when you leak your sex tape and nobody cares.
3. Spencer Pratt - who thinks his life on MTV's "The Hills" is reality - and believes we think so, too.
4. Jeff Kwatinetz - the man that gave the okay for Britney Spears' disastrous MTV Video Music Awards performance.
5. Shia LaBeouf - the 21 year-old "Transformers" star, for getting arrested while refusing to leave a Walgreens pharmacy.
The other "winners":
6. Heidi Montag, reality television star
7. Jessica Simpson, singer
8. Kiefer Sutherland, actor, recurring drunk driver
9. Tori Spelling, former teen actress/daughter of a media mogul
10. Rumer Willis, daughter of two famous people
11. Nick Hogan, son of pro wrestler
12. Courtney Love, aging rock chick, disaster
13. J.R. Rotem, music producer and possible Britney Spears baby daddy
14. Britney Spears, pop star, train wreck
15. Brad Garrett, comedian, paparazzi hater
16. Ken Paves, celebrity hairdresser, hanger-on
17. Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress
18. Brad Womack, indecisive Bachelor
19. Michael Jackson, former singer, mess
20. Cash Warren, celebrity boyfriend
21. Audrina Patridge, "The Hills" star, vapid conversationalist
22. Wilmer Valderamma, actor?
23. Vanessa Minnillo, former VJ, celebrity girlfriend
24. Mel Gibson, actor, drunk driver
25. Michael Richards, comedian, racist
26. Brandon Davis, party boy, racist
27. Isiah Washington, actor, homophobe
28. Charlie Sheen, actor
29. Denise Richards, actress
30. Alec Baldwin, actor, cell phone abuser
31. Chad Michael Murray, serial fiance
32. Steve-O, public nudist
33. Nicole Richie, directionally challenged driver
34. Janice Dickinson, big-mouthed former supermodel
35. Adrienne Curry, reality star and grammatically challenged blogger
36. Anne Heche, self-described crazy person
37. Bai Ling, fashion disaster, C-lister
38. Kevin Federline, serial sperminator
39. Shar Jackson, slept with Kevin Federline
40. Scott Baio, "Charles in Charge"
41. Dustin Diamond, washed-up teen actor and porn star
42. Tila Tequila, reality show bisexual
43. Russell Crowe, phone thrower
44. Kristin Cavallari, not even famous after "Laguna Beach"
45. Nick Carter, Backstreet Boy
46. Vanessa Hudgens, Disney star, nude picture poser
47. Michelle Rodriguez, public nuisance
48. David Hasselhoff, public disaster
49. Joe Francis, Girls Gone Wild creator, inmate
50. Tom Sizemore, probation violator
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http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/11/30/2007-11-30_daily_news_lists_top_50_dumbest_people_i.html
David In Indy:
Jessica Simpson. How could it not be? I don't think anyone in Hollywood is as ditzy as her. I still can't get over her "Is this tuna or is it chicken, because it says chicken of the sea on the can" comment. Or what about the time she refused to eat buffalo wings because she "doesn't like buffalo"?
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave an onion.
delalluvia:
Don't agree with many on the list, some just had bad days.
But it's a sad day when a famously dumb actor doesn't make the list - Stephen Dorf.
dot-matrix:
These people are all self important, foolish and self indulgent. Is they didn't court celebrity they would have nothing to show for their pathetic lives. They are more to be pitied than scorned.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: garycottle on December 01, 2007, 03:13:10 pm ---There are a lot of dumb people in the world. But most of them can't really help it. They are honestly dumb, and so I try not to hold it against them. I'm sure I'm dumb compared to geniuses, but I hope they don't think I'm insufferable.
What gets to me are people who are willfully stupid. So my vote goes to Mel Gibson. He does have intelligence and lots of talent. I've enjoyed several of his films a great deal. And that's why it really bothered me when he called that female police officer sugar tits. She was one of the officers that arrested him for drunk driving, and she was only doing her job and trying to keep the roads safe for all of us, including Mel himself. I find it very upsetting that he went on to claim in his drunken stupor that Jews were the cause of all wars. And it really made me mad when he included those homophobic elements in his film Braveheart. What in the hell was he thinking? He should know better, right?
Gary
--- End quote ---
Gibson is a recovering alcoholic. He's also a jumped-up redneck, basically. With his family's religious background, I'm not surprised he personally is anti-Jew, chauvinistic and a homophobe. Most religious fundamentalists are. That drunk tirade did not come out of nowhere.
As for Braveheart...well, wasn't it Randall Wallace who wrote the screenplay? While we can speculate Gibson's homophobia influenced the script, the reality is Edward II was likely bisexual (or closeted as he and his wife had several children) and it's probably very likely Edward I didn't like his son's friends and the unsubstantiated rumor that Edward II was executed by having a red-hot iron shoved up his rectum may have more flavored the script than anything else.
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