LaVar Burton: Blind To His Lack of Fame
Although I’m a bit split on Wired writer Leander Kahney’s articles and opinions at times, he does prove to write the interesting article from time to time.
For instance, Kahney’s newest article at Wired: Stars Take a Shine to Apple.
Its a nice fluff peice about stories that Apple Store employees from Los Angles dish about the different stars that come into the store for their Apple needs. Normally, I couldn’t care less about this E! Channel type crap, but there were a few interesting tidbits.
Examples of nice stars:
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart “finds what he wants, smiles and leaves.”
Trent Reznor is “super nice” and is always buying gifts for his band.
Robin Williams took his picture on every computer with a camera attached and left the portraits open on the desktops. “That was truly great,” said one of the anonymous associates.
Kiefer Sutherland “thanks you like 40 times when you’re helping him,” said another. (In the first season of Fox’s 24, Sutherland and the other good guys used Macs, while the villains used PCs.)
Saturday Night Live’s Kevin Nealon is “probably the most genial celeb who comes in on a consistent basis…. (He is) always patient and receptive,” the associate added.
“I suck.”
…and here is the best asshole star story:
The associate, who also asked to remain anonymous, said he made the mistake of asking Burton for some ID when the actor was making a big credit card purchase. The associate said he recognized Burton, but wanted to reassure him he was doing a thorough job of checking credentials.
Burton “began shouting at me to ask anyone in the store who he was, all the while telling me that he left his ID in the car and he didn’t want to have to go get it,” the associate said. “I finally caved in, only because I could see a vein pulsating in his forehead and I didn’t want to be the one responsible for causing the blind dude from Star Trek to have a stroke.”
LaVar Burton! Who the hell is Lavar Burton?! When was the last time that guy did anything worth while? How long ago did Star Trek end? Other than that, all he has done is those Star Trek movies which, I’m sorry Trekies, sucked. Yeah, with all the fame of Reading Rainbow, you totally have the right to chew someone out for doing his job.
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