Still angry they gave that frakin’ Apollo a new gig

Apollo and starbuckSo i bumped into this interview with Dirk Benedict in National Review Online, skimming through it, a lot about his individuality and how he doesn't need hollywood.  Stuff like this:

Benedict wants little to do with Hollywood anymore. Since leaving television, he has written two books and raised two sons as a single father.

and this:

Not being able to shy away from such politically incorrect opinions
also might have had something to do with his decision to abandon
Hollywood for Montana. And Benedict protests that he never had the
pathological hunger for fame that characterizes Hollywood’s biggest
stars.

“George Roy Hill [the legendary director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid] said to me once, ‘You’ll never be a star,’ ”
Benedict recalls. “He started inviting me to his house — which was
really Paul Newman’s house, he was renting — and he said to me, ‘You’ll
never be a star, and the reason is that you don’t have to have it.’ ”
 

Seems like quite a maverick eh?  Then I get to this:

During his recent appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, a wildly popular reality-TV show in the U.K….

Celebrity Big Brother!  In the UK?  If that doesn't scream "somebody please notice me again" I don't know what does.  Sorry dude, all that Montana frontier conservative to-hell-with-what-they-think facade
just flushed down the toilet.  I think someone is just cranky that he didn't get a job on new & improved BSG.

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