With all the talk in the media lately about a certain actor who shall remain nameless [*cough-TomCruise-cough*], his controlling behavior toward his soon-to-be-ex-beard-wife, and his whack-job religious beliefs, I reflected on the fact that I've had zero interest in watching any of his movies in a very long time. (I would however, probably watch Risky Business if I should happen across it on cable TV.)

I started to wonder, how much is my disinterest in watching anything recent with that person or several others (John Travolta, Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, Kirk Cameron, etc.) created by my dislike of their beliefs and actions due to those beliefs?

So let me ask you, if you were to learn that an actor had said or done something you considered racist, homophobic, or bigoted in any way, or if you were to learn that he/she belonged to a religion that you have serious issues with because of it's actions, or perhaps he/she was throwing his/her support behind a politician who you felt was serious trouble, to what extent would that effect your desire to watch that actor?

Would you still enjoy watching him/her as an actor, or would you be unable to separate your dislike of the actor from the character he/she plays?

Would you decide whether to go see his/her latest movie based solely on whether it looks like a film you'd enjoy, or would you be reluctant to to go see his/her new movies because you don't want to contribute to box office totals and thus indirectly fund actions that you find bigoted, hateful, or harmful?

Would you be willing to watch old reruns of his/her movies or tv shows, but be unwilling to go see his/her new movies for the reason above?

Presumably, it might all depend upon how severe the harmful/hurtful things he/she has done are. So how bad would he/she have to be before it effects how you regard him/her?

SHAMELESSLY COPIED FROM MULTIPLE PEOPLE ON MY F-LIST:

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. mysid
2. Mom
3. Fred (But only by my husband)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. My spider earrings
2. My witch hat necklace
3. Black jeans

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. A bigger house
2. A self-cleaning house
3. A cursor that doesn't randomly jump to a different place in the text in the middle of typing

THREE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HOPE WILL DO THE MEME
1. Someone reading this
2. Another person reading this
3. A third person reading this

THREE THINGS YOU DID YESTERDAY
1. Survived a hectic day at preschool
2. Attended my daughter's final cross country meet of the season
3. Read QaF fanfic

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. My mother-in-law
2. My husband
3. My boss

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. Have a Halloween parade at school
2. Get my house reappraised for tax purposes
3. Have hot wax applied to parts of my face, followed by unwanted hair being yanked out

Three OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. Diet Dr. Pepper
2. Diet Coke
3. Hot chocolate

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. My daughter losing a homework paper that was due today, and rather than whining about it, simply redoing it before school
2. Getting chased by "scary ghosts" on the playground
3. My puppy sleeping on my feet while I type this

Life Order Meme (borrowed from thistlerose

Put this list in the order it occurred in your life:

Get married
Buy a house
Get Pregnant
Have baby #1
Have baby #2
Have baby #3
Have baby #4
Graduate college
Graduate high school
Meet significant other
Meet who you hoped was your significant other but wasn’t
Move out of parent’s house for good
Start college
Become gainfully employed
Buy a car
Get drunk for the first time
Get a cell phone
Get divorced

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Oh goody! I'm glad I'm not a cliche cliche; it's better to be unpredictable. Don't you agree?
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Since I'm still stuck in bed (see previous post for nature of illness) and feeling bored:

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...

They have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up!

Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same
1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

What is your name? Jennifer

4 letter word: July

Vehicle: Jeep

Movie: Jane Eyre

TV Show: Just Shoot Me!

City: Jersey City

Girl Name: Julia

Boy Name: Julius

Alcoholic drink: Jersey Devil

Occupation: jeweler

Something you wear: jewelry

Celebrity: John Barrowman (Drool)

Something found in a bathroom: jewelry (What? I always take my jewelry off before I shower, and I tend to forget to put it back on. Thus, the bathroom is the first place I go to look for my jewelry.)

Reason for being late: jam (variety: traffic)

Cartoon Character: Jane Jetson

Something you shout: Jump!

...and which lesser Harry Potter character are you?

"You're so different from most humans that you're an entirely different species. Still, your beliefs are unusual even for beings of your sort - although concerned with the future and the stars, you're willing to defy standard practices for the common good."

This part is cool: "As of 11.04.02, this quiz had been taken 41,731 times. I can tell you with complete certainty that there are 12,143 Bill Weasleys, 9562 Ernie Macmillans, 8399 Parvati Patils, 7264 Dean Thomases, 714 Firenzes, and 3649 Ludo Bagmans wandering the Muggle world at this instant." Firenze is much less common than the others--that makes me unique-ish. It would have been weird to proclaim that I'm similar to Firenze for following the beat of a different drummer, and then tell me that there are thousands and thousands of "Firenzes."

I was just thinking, I did this meme because I saw that kasche did it, and she did it because she saw that someone else did it, etc., etc....so shouldn't the fact that we're all sheep following the flock be automatically entered into our personality profile? "You are doing this quiz, therefore you automatically score high for being easily influenced."
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Apparently, if I were a masculine gay man, my name would be "Kyle," I'd be a trash collector who grunts during sex, and my cause of death--NONE!
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Well, with Mary Read, they got the gender right, but I don't think this description sounds much like me. I think the problem is, the quiz only assigns pirate captains as pirate identities, and I'm definitely more "crew" than "captain."

You scored as Mary Read. You are very unconventional, you defy the rules as often as you can and like to take as many risks as possible. You will probably end up living happily under a bridge somewhere laughing at all the unsavory deeds you once instigated. </td> Mary Read 75% Dread Pirate Roberts 67% Will Turner 50% Captain James T. Hook 42% Captain Jack Sparrow 33% Morgan Adams 25% Sinbad 17% Captain Barbosa 17% Long John Silvers 17% Black Beard 0% What kind of Pirate are you? created with QuizFarm.com