LOL Kirk Cameron

[Rescinded and Mended]

That's true, I'd could quite easily believe he made life hellish for his costars on Growing Pains. Didn't he get one of his series girlfriends fired from the show because she was a Playboy centerfold?

I can only imagine how obnoxious he was to his "family" on the show.

[Stephanie66]

Yes, he did get an actress fired. Her name was Julie McCollough, and she played Krissie's nanny from 1989-1990. Here's the clip from Wikipedia.

Julie McCullough landed the role of nanny Julie Costello on the television show Growing Pains in 1989. She appeared in eight episodes until she was fired in 1990, which allegedly stemmed from series star Kirk Cameron's conversion to evangelical Christianity, a conversion that, according to The E! True Hollywood Story episode focusing on the show, served to alienate him from his fellow cast members, as he did not invite any of them to his wedding. In his 2008 autobiography Still Growing, Cameron states that he did not call for her to be fired and the show's producers have claimed that Julie's character was never intended to be a permanent character. However, the long-told story is that Cameron called for McCullough's termination because of his objections to her having posed nude in Playboy, accusing the show's producers of promoting pornography. A decade later, Cameron apologized to his TV family for some of his prior behavior due to his lack of maturity.[2][4] He reportedly did not reconcile with McCullough, who claims that Cameron refused to speak to her during a later encounter. She remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured during the controversy. Although McCullough herself is Catholic, she has criticized the evangelical television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:

“ He thinks if I read science books that I'm going to hell. [i would] rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints ... the sinners are much more fun. And a lot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains. I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read.[5] â€

I LOVED "Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read." Rock on, Julie, rock on.

[walnut]

Hasbeen, unattractive.

[Stephanie66]

I realize that Mike Seaver was the star of the show, but it is appalling to me that he would have enough power at 20 years old to get people fired. That is never a good thing.

[Rescinded and Mended]

I agree, that's pretty sickening. I hate the thought of his fellow castmates living in fear of a teen terror that could get them fired at any time just because he decided to use his newfound religion as an excuse to harass anyone that crosses him.

Kirk Cameron deserves his downward slide into evangelical notoriety.

And Stephanie66, thanks for that quote from Wiki about Julie - she sounds like an awesome, well-adjusted lady. ;)

[IrishRose]

Julie played a pregnant teenager on The Golden Girls for one episode I believe after her stint on GP. I'm sure Kirk would've had opinions about that too.

[Rescinded and Mended]

Julie played a pregnant teenager on The Golden Girls for one episode I believe after her stint on GP. I'm sure Kirk would've had opinions about that too.

Oh, now I know her face! I never watched Growing Pains, but I've seen every episode of Golden Girls that ever aired. :D

[Littlebit66]

I just saw the banana video. What the hell? What kind of logic is that?

[Stephanie66]

I just saw the banana video. What the hell? What kind of logic is that?

Especially since bananas have been genetically modified to be easily peeled like that. Dole did it, not God.

[IrishRose]

R&M--I never saw GP either. It was on the night I had piano lessons. Meanwhile my former bestie from high school was obsessed with Kirk...she had posters all over her bedroom. I preferred Michael J Fox. :)

[IrishRose]

One of my friends was reposting his diatribe from Facebook. I looked up info on the movie/documentary/whatever and called shenanigans. They never objected to Monumental on fb.

[Hane]

Didn't he--or his character--torment the girl who played his sister about her weight? You'd think such a powerful Christian would prevail on the scriptwriters to remove such cruel statements.

[church_of_dog]

Especially since bananas have been genetically modified to be easily peeled like that. Dole did it, not God.

I just saw it too. My reaction was -- if bananas being so easy to eat is a sign they're from Almighty Dog, then that must mean that artichokes are... ...of the devil?

:dancing-demon:

Don't even wanna think about walnuts then.

[Rescinded and Mended]

R&M--I never saw GP either. It was on the night I had piano lessons. Meanwhile my former bestie from high school was obsessed with Kirk...she had posters all over her bedroom. I preferred Michael J Fox. :)

I'm with you there - I had a crush on him from his Back to the Future days. 8-)

I once had a school assignment to write a letter to a celebrity I admired. I accidentally lost the one I wrote to Roseanne Barr, so my best friend and I put together a fake letter telling Kirk how much we loved him. :lol: Neither one of us could stand him!

[ShadowyOne]

Especially since bananas have been genetically modified to be easily peeled like that. Dole did it, not God.

And... and... and... Modern bananas are sterile - they can only be reproduced by splicing and CLONING! Oh, the horror!

[Peppercorn]

The Sterile Banana.

You know that's gotta drive both the fundies and the MRAs insane. Oh the demasculinization!

:banana-explosion:

[Shoes Grace]

Exactly- bananas in the wild will mutate and reproduce on their own, without human help, but they will go genetically nuts within a few generations. Google all the different kinds of bananas and you'll see what I mean.

If you want a consistent, non-bruising, large eating banana that's the same banana from year to year like we know from the grocery store, you have to keep them separate from each other and sterile so you can, essentially, inbreed the banana. Doing it with bananas is just as bad as doing it with European monarchs. There's no way for them to adapt and ward off diseases (natural selection!), which is why the Big Mike banana of the 1950s is now virtually extinct and the modern version, the Cavendish, is in bad enough shape that every few years someone predicts the banana will disappear from grocery stores.

Fact of the matter is, someone will either genetically modify a Cavendish so it can survive, or there will be a new standard grocery store banana, probably Goldfinger, or, if the banana growers can sell us on a red banana (aka BROWN), Red Daccas.

[curlytoes79]

That's true, I'd could quite easily believe he made life hellish for his costars on Growing Pains. Didn't he get one of his series girlfriends fired from the show because she was a Playboy centerfold?

I can only imagine how obnoxious he was to his "family" on the show.

IIRC, he was an atheist until about age 17. After his conversion he started annoying his co-stars with his Jesus talk. He also made trouble for several of the producers, whom he accused of being pornographers since they were trying to introduce light adult themes to the show. The three producers resigned rather than deal with Cameron.

[Stephanie66]

Didn't he--or his character--torment the girl who played his sister about her weight? You'd think such a powerful Christian would prevail on the scriptwriters to remove such cruel statements.

Yes, but seriously, I am not going to put the blame for that on Mike Seaver. The adults in the situation, including Alan Thicke (who has apologized vehemently) and HER PARENTS should be held accountable for that. And in all honesty, not every girl who gets teased about her weight becomes an anorexic. Tracey Gold had addiction issues. She had a DUI around ten years ago that involved her kids in the car and an injury to her son. She can't blame that on Growing Pains.

She is doing great now, though. In fact, I would say she is doing much better than Kirk. (Although I couldn't stand her on Wife Swap. Complete control issues. She picked out her 17 year old son's clothing and the boys can't ever eat outside of the kitchen. Wow.)

[J'ean Skirt]

So Kirk (well, stories about him) showed up on my FB feed today. I am friends with a couple folks who work at FB and one of them commented that the whole thing with the blocked domain was Kirk being stupid. What happened (according to my friend) is that Kirk bought a domain that was used by spammers and was blocked by FB before Kirk bought it. After he alerted FB that he owned it they said "oh, we'll unblock it." Then Kirk started throwing a hissy about how his fans had pressured FB.

*rolling eyes*

THEN someone pops up in the same thread and says "But Kirk is one of the good guys! He refuses to kiss any girl on screen! How can you not admire someone like that."

Um...

I had to jump in. I didn't have many facts about Kirk, but He is NOT one of the good guys.

:angry-banghead:

[ThisOlGirl]

I wasn't sure where to put this...LolKirks seems to be as good place as any. Anyway, I was re-reading a favorite blog of mine(not updated since '09) and I can't believe I never saw this one:

Dear Kirk Cameron,

Salutations, ageless heartthrob. My name is Alibaster K. Abthernabther, best-selling author, champion yacht racer, hot-air balloon enthusiast, and author of erotic Biblical fan-fiction.

Congratulations on your most recent success. Your latest motion picture film, Fireproof, debuted as the #3 motion picture film in the nation. Not since Mel Gibson’s The Passionate Sexy Christ has religious propaganda performed so well at the box office. Let’s see Boner Stabone top that!

This also bodes well for the upcoming presidential election, if only to remind us of the organizational abilities of the unstoppable American Christian Right. It’s really quite startling. Usually, when a group of religious zealots are that well organized it results in mass genocide, the heavy-handed occupation of a desert-strewn nation, or tasty chicken biscuit sandwiches.

As the film’s star, I am sure you are quite familiar with the plot of the movie. But I love it so much that I must revisit it. The story revolves around a firefighter character (played by you, Kirk Cameron) that is in the midst of some marital difficulties. The firefighter’s wife needs love and attention, but the firefighter is too busy spending his off-hours in front of his Internet web computer, alternately gambling and masturbating.

My favorite scene in the film is when the firefighter destroys his personal computer, taking out his rage and frustration against the lusty trappings of modern technology with a baseball bat. It is as dramatic as it is effective. Though, an equally effective and less costly method would be to simply cache the browsing history.

Not to spoil any of the movie’s intricate plot twists, but I think it goes without saying that the true hero of the story is not your firefighter character, but the Bible. Or Jesus. Is it Jesus’ teachings as told in the Bible or the Bible’s interpretation of the teachings of Jesus? Nevertheless, the Jesus Bible reveals a valuable lesson. Why love and tend to your spouse just because you’re supposed to, just because you vowed to, just because you should? You should do these things, not out of honor or respect or love for another human being, but because an invisible omniscient being supposedly decreed it. But only for individuals with opposable, interlocking genitalia, not for fags or lezbos.

That’s why I love this film. It teaches us that no matter who we are - heterosexual firefighters, heterosexual nurses, heterosexual parents of heterosexual firefighters – the answers to our interpersonal problems do not reside in our mind, but in an ancient tome purported to be the unquestionable “Word of God,†though it was in fact written and compiled thousands and thousands of years ago by various disjointed committees and injected with bias, before being heavily edited and forced down the throats of the uneducated by theologically vested governments.

Yours,

Alibaster K. Abthernabther

Here's the blog--http://alibasterabthernabther.blogspot.com/2008/10/logicproof.html

[salex]

Yeah, I'm also wondering where everyone else is in that birthday pic of Kirk. And why do those women look so miserable? And that Subway dinner place setting around the table is just odd. You'd think he'd have wanted birthday pics that were more memorable, where at least the party guests look happy.

According to a person at the party who spoke to The Cutline, there were 10-15 people behind the camera when the photo of Cameron was taken. And none of them, it seems, was aware the photo went viral. news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/story-behind-kirk-cameron-sad-birthday-photo-212734689.html

However, there are 3 and a half Subs-- so, that would usually mean 7 people, at most.

And the women in the room look as though they are going to their own execution later that afternoon.

[CruitLvr]

So Kirk (well, stories about him) showed up on my FB feed today. I am friends with a couple folks who work at FB and one of them commented that the whole thing with the blocked domain was Kirk being stupid. What happened (according to my friend) is that Kirk bought a domain that was used by spammers and was blocked by FB before Kirk bought it. After he alerted FB that he owned it they said "oh, we'll unblock it." Then Kirk started throwing a hissy about how his fans had pressured FB.

*rolling eyes*

THEN someone pops up in the same thread and says "But Kirk is one of the good guys! He refuses to kiss any girl on screen! How can you not admire someone like that."

Um...

I had to jump in. I didn't have many facts about Kirk, but He is NOT one of the good guys.

:angry-banghead:

Ahh, this showed up in my newsfeed also. Thanks for clearing that up, I wondered what the story was.

[snarkopolis]

I wasn't sure where to put this...LolKirks seems to be as good place as any. Anyway, I was re-reading a favorite blog of mine(not updated since '09) and I can't believe I never saw this one:

[nelliebelle1197]

I am bumping this because there is just too much goodness here not to share