Billy “I’m A Musician Now” Bob Thornton Shows His Inner Douche
Would You Say That To Tom Petty?
I already knew Billy Bob Thornton was a smelly, infected douche-nozzle (being married to Angelina Jolie – his FIFTH wife – and all) what I didn’t know was how embarrassingly full of himself he was. Consider me fully on-board with that now.
During an interview for the CBC, interviewer Jian Ghomeshi asked Thornton some benign questions about his career shift and in the audio clip you can hear Thornton dressing down a radio host for daring to mention that he is also an actor, along with a slew of other apparent perceived “insults.” Essentially Thornton refuses to answer the Jian’s questions from the very beginning, including such simple questions like, what kind of music did you listen to as a kid, with BBT telling him a story about entering a monster building contest? HUH?
Did Billy Bob and Joaquin Phoenix drink from the same batch of “kool-aid”?
BBT fronts a band called the Boxmasters, which he describes as a mix of British Invasion and hillbilly music, and goes on to say no one else has ever done anything like this type of music and he even compares himself to Tom Petty. WTF? I don’t think so.
The portion of the interview where BBT gets his boxers in a bunch starts out innocent enough. Watch entire interview here.
JG: “Given that you seem to be quite passionate about music, I was wondering about your…
BBT: interrupting “Would you say that to Tom Petty?”
JG: “Would I say that he’s passionate about music?”
BBT: “Yeah.”
JG: “Yeah”
BBT: “Really? Would you explain why it’s not a hobby?”
JG: “Are you reacting to the fact that I asked about…”
BBT: “Yeah I am, since you were instructed not to talk about that sh*t!”
It just spirals out of control from there, with BBT becoming increasing douchey and arrogant, and Jian desperately trying to regain control of the interview despite the fact that he really didn’t cross any line, imaginary or otherwise. Terry Gross would have kicked Billy Bob’s ass for that display of complete nonsense.
Here’s the thing, Billy Bob’s attempt to keep things from getting sidetracked from his “music” actually does the opposite, unless of course this was his plan all along: create controversy. Which brings me to a real issue with today’s PR machines. We’ve gotten to the point in our society where the only way celebrities think they can generate attention is to behave outrageously, or in Billy’s case, boorishly. Not to get all philosophical, but WTF?
The glitz and glamour once associated with Hollywood is in a critical shift. You have people like Ashton Kutcher, so desperate for attention they need a site like Twitter to feed into their bloated egos, reality stars becoming famous for being famous and folks like Billy Bob who have to resort to behaving like cavemen to get publicity.
What does this say about our culture? I’m afraid nothing good. By the way, the music is NOT good enough to justify his behavior. Let’s put it this way, by the end of the interview, I almost felt sorry for Angelina Jolie.
Almost.
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What a jerk. “Celebrity” at its worst.
Comment by Rachel — April 8, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
hahahahahahaha. He’s such a loser! For real !!! hahahahahahahaha … that’s right loser ALL OF CANADA IT LAUGHING AT YOU (and fart in your general direction !!!!! Oh and if he afraid of antiques >> then he should in fact be afraid of his own career
Comment by Annon Emous — April 8, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
I have in my possession a CD called Earl Scruggs and Friends, which features various stars performing songs with the legendary Earl Scruggs. I listen to them all…with the exception of BBT’s contribution, Walk The Line. It’s an insult to the late, great Johnny Cash and to music in general.
Comment by k — April 8, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
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Pingback by Celebrity Blog | Babelogs | Celebrity Gossip » Blog Archive » Billy “I’m A Musician Now” Bob Thornton Shows His Inner Douche — April 9, 2009 @ 2:00 am
Man, that’s just sad. That interviewer handled it really well, I wouldn’t have been able to keep myself from strangling Billy Bob.
Comment by Brooke — April 9, 2009 @ 5:19 am
I think that the world of “celebrity” went insane when the gossip rags and paps started following Paris Hilton around who was/is not an entertainer in any way, shape or form. Before her skanky self(she’s basically just a prostitute)became famous for nothing only actors and actresses were given any attention. Now it seems that anyone who is willing to act VERY badly very publicly is lionized by the press and even have fans! Which just goes to show that there really is one born every minute.
Comment by HardHeadedWoman — April 10, 2009 @ 9:38 am