James Cameron was walking through LAX (the airport, not the nightclub) recently when a fan asked him to sign an Avatar poster. Cameron refused.
The man went back to Cameron and asked again to which James replied, “I don’t owe you a f**king signature … just get out of my f**king personal space.”
That’s when the fan lost it and replied, “I’m an a**hole because I ask someone I admire for their autograph that makes me an a**hole? I make $15-an-hour at work to go see your film and I’m an a**hole?”
Ultimately, James calmly walked away from the situation while the fan continued to yell at him. [TMZ]
TMZ got the whole thing on video (attached below), because even though you can’t park your car there for more than three seconds and have to take your shoes off to get on a plane, TMZ is allowed to just hang out at the airport with video cameras all day. Anyway, the easy thing to say is that Cameron could’ve just taken two seconds to sign the guy’s poster and only the tiniest effort would’ve kept him from looking like a total prick, but would it really surprise anyone if TMZ put this guy up to it specifically in the hopes that something like this might happen? Meanwhile, if this guy’s looking for reasons why he might be considered an A-hole, I’d say that hat is tops on the list.
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Why wasn’t James Cameron at his own airport? That’s why
hundreds of his Somalian slaveshe built it, this doesn’t make sense.James replied, “I don’t owe you a f**king signature …”
You do owe me 3 hours of my life back.
$15 an hour!? No wonder that rich asshole can afford a poster.
How bout i sign something for you Mr. Cameron. Your death warrant.
Where the fucks my pen?
I left it on the couch, and when I sat down……….
Oh God! Is that blood.
$15 an hour is way more than I believed the lead singer of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was making now.
Why is TMZ required to censor all but one “asshole”s in this story?
“Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup.”
/obligatory hat insult
The only way this could have been better:
James Cameron follows this guy around a Starbuck’s with a napkin asking him to autograph it, “I’m an asshole because I ask someone I admire for their autograph that makes me an asshole? I make $15 million doing basically no work to come drink the fagaccino YOU prepared and I’m an asshole?”
What you can’t see just off camera is the rest of Sugar Ray geeked out in blue Avatar paint urging Mark Mcgrath on.
I’d like to see video of this guy meeting Sasha Grey.
This is obviously a fucking set-up by TMZ, anyone that doesn’t think so is an idiot. I would have done the same thing. Oh and $15 an hour? Fuck you, I make minimum, eat a dick.
Might I mention this would be one of those assholes that act all nice with their portable filing cabinet and ask for *Enter celebrity’s name here* signature, then throw it up on eBay.
Grown up man demanding another man’s signature on a faggoty poster=asshole
MrSparkle07 you took the words right out of my mouth. Well said sir!
Haha thanks, glad somebody agrees.
ATidyLittleSum is absolutely correct…i want my three hours back and the $15 i spent watching that movie that hat guy wants a signature on! While we’re at it, hat guy should sign his hat and put that on Ebay.
here’s to james cameron lol:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5245963/Avatar_movie_2009
Cameron should have just signed the damn poster. Really.. is it such an inconvenience? Especially when there are obviously cameras around you would think he would just do it.
But Mr. $15 an hour shouldn’t have chased him around either, it looks pathetic.
Years ago I got autographs from all the guys in U2 at an airport – on multiple CDs and booklets. In hindsight I think I over extended myself, but they were all super cool. Bono especially was cool – in fact my ball point pen just happened to stop working when he was signing my CD booklet (total nightmare) and he asked his entourage if anyone had a Sharpie. I never saw so many people dive into their purses and man bags so fast to find him a damn Sharpie, but he got one and signed all my stuff. It’s just too bad they haven’t been able to make a decent record since Achtung Baby but I kept that thought to myself.
Anyway – point is if I can get one of the biggest rock bands in the world to sign some CD booklets and some CDs, then James Cameron could just take a second to sign a single poster.