Public Apology to Kevin Sorbo

Dear Mr. Sorbo,

A while ago, I went on a tirade about you being an ungracious actor because of your comments about XENA and Lucy Lawless. I’m going to take this opportunity to formally apologize to you publicly for my past comments. I’ve gained a new respect for you because who, unlike so many others, aren't followers. You lead. Thank you for being who you are and for standing up for what you believe in.

To my friends:

Sorbo is a rarity in Hollywood. But he has great company: Actors Gary Sinese, Kelsey Grammer, and Angie Harmon are just a few that share a special kinship with the man who played Hercules for seven years. They are conservatives in a world were liberalism defines it work as much as it does its political contributions.

I like people who go against the status quo and aren’t afraid to admit it.

Peace.

Bitch Slap!

Someone asked me my thoughts on this film. I'll be blunt: it looks crappy and stupid.

Before anyone goes: But, but you shouldn't judge it... know this: You don't know what I like to watch and vice versa!

Now, granted, I haven't see the film (nor care too) so it might be kind of judgmental of me to make that assumption that it is crappy and stupid. (Given the trailer, the producers haven't given me a reason to like it.)

However, having worked fourteen years in a video store and seeing thousands of movie trailers, I've gotten to be a good judge about movies. I can safely say, I've been more right than wrong about the "enjoyable" factor of a movie.

I know what my tastes are and what I like to watch. Bitch Slap isn't a movie I'd sit back on the recliner and watch much less go to a movie theater. (FYI: The same thing will go for Bedtime Stories at the end of the year.)

Now, obviously this movie gets some of the Xena and Hercules gang back together again for a brief moment in time. That's good from the outside looking in. But does that mean I have to subject myself to something I wouldn't normally watch if they weren't involved? No. It doesn't.

Will it help the movie? Probably not. Plenty of movies have star power only to fizzle in the box office. It's comes across as a more of a 'reunion' segment, sans the references to Xena and Hercules.

Should people be forced to watch it? No. Should they be allowed to bash the movie for being sleezy and slutty? Yeah. Should they be judged on that? NO!

It's an opinion. We're entitled to our opinions. And if we don't like someone's opinion, we deal with it in a respectable manner.

There is this expression:

What one man deems as art another deems as trash.

This applies to films. What one person may think is cool and funny, another thinks is trashy.

Titanic with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio. I thought this was a good film. But I can name at least a dozen people who thought it was stupid from the trailer or after having watched it. Are they wrong because they haven't seen it? No. They know what they like to watch and the subject matter of the film simply doesn't appeal to them.

But just because we watch a trailer of a movie and get an opinin off of that, doesn't mean that we're being judgmental about the film itself. It means that we simply don't find the movie interesting or something we care to watch.

Kevin Sorbo has issues

Normally, I am pretty good about not really slamming celebrities. I have hold back because it can be uncomfortable for some. But I am making an exception in this case.

Kevin 'Hercules' Sorbo has issues to say the least. Here is a guy, who came off as a stand-up guy, do all sorts of things for kids, etc. And it turns out, he is really just another prima donna actor who has a huge bitter thing going on. This is how you sink careers ladies and gentlemen.

Let's start off with Sorbo's latest interview. In this interview, Sorbo makes the wild accusation that Lucy left her then husband, Garth Lawless for a relationship with Hercules producer, Rob Tapert (who apparently left his wife, but that would be a common law wife).

Not true, according to several interviews given by Lawless in 1995, was seperated from her husband. There are stories abound about how Rob and Lucy first met, which was at the wrap party for Hercules in Los Angeles in 1995. Their first encounter pretty much was Rob seeing Lucy off in a corner crying because of the personal situation back home in New Zealand. I don't call that having affair, Mr. Sorbo.

By the time they started seeing each other Summer 1995, whatever relationships they had with other people, they were no longer in by that time.

Sorbo also brings up the issue of Laweless''s cameo in Spiderman. Lucy was in New York doing interviews and Sam asked her to stop by the set. She was then approached if she wanted to do a cameo (kinda like how Bruce Campbell shows up in Sam's movies). She said sure. That was a bone, Mr. Sorbo? That was Ms. Lawless being in the right place at the right time. No special trip, no pre-arrangement, no nothing.

Tracking back to Xena for a moment, in an 2001 interview (found here), Sorbo makes the claim that Xena stole all the writers, directors, etc. Not true. Xena hired in a writing staff, no one was stolen from Hercules. Additionally, New Zealand is a small country with a limited resource pool. So it's understandable that directors might enjoy working on one show over another.

Did Xena get a bigger piece of Rob's attention? Probably. More likely than not.


Back to Sorbo's current interview. No one will deny that Sorbo had a rough fifth season where he almost died because of aneurism that exploded in his shouler. However, that's not a reason to be all pissy about not getting offered a role in a movie. It's your attitude that gets you ignored by them, Mr. Sorbo.

Lucy worked through pain while recovering from her broken pelvis in 1996. She worked while pregnant. She worked when her back was killing her. She's a real trooper, Mr. Sorbo. I'm betting she didn't whine about it either. She worked, no matter how much it hurt. She worked because there were people counting on her to be there.

He then goes on about in 1996 how they asked him to do this movie that he claims was horrible and that if he wanted to make it, how come he didn't make with someone else? Um, you've been in the business long enough to know, Mr. Sorbo that movies get made for all sorts of reasons. Grow up, Mr. Sorbo.

Then we have this comment by Sorbo, "Throw me a bone." Um, maybe because you're a prima donna who's bitten off the hand that fed you is why you haven't gotten a bone tossed in your direction.

Lucy Lawless busted her ass since Xena ended to get where she is at today. And unlike you, Mr. Sorbo, you don't have people who obssess and write horrible things about you because of who you are. Not only that, Mr. Sorbo, Lucy has had to endure the wrath of fans, writing things about her husband pimping her around in season six, to the infamous claim that the she and Rob were out to destroy Renee's career. And then have the people who wanted your career dead because of the series finale and then to add on to that, people holding you personally responsible for all things wrong in your life.

No, Mr. Sorbo. It is YOU who should begging Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for a bone. At least Lucy is appreciative of her fans and she does not go around spilling sour grapes about your show. Even with Lord of the Rings sucked out most of Xena's crew, she was sad, but she didn't bitch about it several years after the fact. Lucy Lawless has class. And you know, as much as I want her to, she probably won't counter your claims because she is a lady of pure class.

Have some class Kevin Sorbo. Do us all a favor, SHUT. THE. FRAK. UP. YOU. SORRY. EXCUSE. OF. AN. ACTOR!