Hollywood has always bred ambivalence in many of its leading lights. Roseanne Barr, for example, once took out an ad in The Hollywood Reporter:

"This town is a back-stabbing, scum-sucking, small-minded town," it read in part, "but thanks for the money."

["If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard," Jay Leno once quipped, "He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology."]

["I have a huge crush on President Bush," Roseanne once declared. "I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he's a babe. He's got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he's hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn't married I'd be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around."]