Farticus (Kirk Douglas) always just grated on my nerves. His characters always seemed quite capable of sticking a knife in your back. These are people that Hollywood’s retrospective shows were forever and a day telling me how great these people were, and I finally said, “Nope.” I made my own list, Movie stars I love .

Bette Davis epitomized “overrated” to me. All those shows telling us how great she was have never shown me anything. She pretty much played ‘crazy bitch’, and it worked.

Joan Crawford was evidently owned by MGM, anyone else would just have admitted they goofed and moved on. She made ‘Johnny Guitar‘, enough said. (Just saw a promo for, “Torch Song”. She has to walk away with the award for worst actress, most obnoxious person to have ever infected Hollywood.)

Julia Roberts. Would not cross the street. Love Eric.

Actually have seen him 3 times. Thelma and Louise, some sword and sandal warrior guy and Zombieland. What a twit. Just not likeable. Or believable.

Katherine Hepburn. She sounds like a Martian in Mars Attacks, “Yak, yak yak yak!”

Fred Astaire. Give me Gene Kelly any day.

Spencer Tracy, “Hey let’s have him play the irritating curmudgeon!”

Tony Curtis would have made the list but I really like ‘The Great Race‘. The rest of his career stunk. Walter Matthau had ‘The Bad News Bears‘, otherwise he was a sure thing. Barbara Streisand definitely would have made the list but I really enjoyed ‘The Way We Were‘, even though it was probably more Redford that made it.

It will be obvious when I do the “Movie stars I love” list. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Tom Selleck. I really don’t think its a conscious bias that the people I  like tend to be conservative Christians. And the people I don’t like, aren’t. Its a lifetime of watching before  I became aware.