RichC2

Yeah I'm going for tackiest thread of the year.

4 of 5 of James Camerons wives are famous in some capacity, how would you rate them in terms of talent in the film industry and well, any other factor you deem fitting?

Wife #1: Sharon Williams (No image available, no filmography)
Married: 1978 - 1984
Netted in the Divorce: $1200

Wife #2: Gale Anne Hurd
Married: 1985 - 1989
Writer: The Terminator, Terminator 3, Terminator: TSCCC
Producer: Terminator 2, Armageddon, Hulk, Punisher: Warzone, etc;


Wife #3: Kathryn Bigelow
Married: 1989 - 1991
Director: The Loveless, Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Hurt Locker


Wife #4: Linda Hamilton
Married: 1997 – 1999 (half that Titanic fortune, damn.)
Actress: Terminator, Terminator 2, Children of the Corn, Beauty and the Beast "TV", lot of other smaller stuff


Wife #5: Suzy Amis
Married: 2000 - Current
Actress: Blown Away, Nadja, Usual Suspects, Titanic
(all the way to the right)

Blu Man

You gotta wonder whats wrong with a person that they get divorced so many times.

RichC2

I hear he's a bit of a hot tempered asshole, but considering the movies he has made, he was probably right in a lot of the arguments.

fumanstan

Seems like they're getting less talented (and maybe more attractive) as we go.

riotinmyskull

kathryn bigelow is obviously the most talented....and she wasn't bad looking in her prime.

Blu Man

I've heard that also. apparently Kate Winslet never wants to work with him again.

mcnabb

James Cameron = Uncompromising Asshole = Great Director = Divorced 5 Times = Classic Movies like Terminator, T2, The Abyss, Aliens, and Titanic.

What makes him a great director is probably the reason he can't keep any of his wives.

RichC2

Both Kate Winslet and Orson Scott Card made similar comments. Winslet says her comment was mis-quoted (apparently a sarcastic/joke-y comment) but Card was pretty stern with his opinion while working on The Abyss.

Very true. And since he's been married to his latest wife (9 years now), he's put out how many actual movies?

GoldenJCJ

Has to be either Gale Anne Hurd or Kathryn Bigelow, though it seems that most of Hurd's success is riding Cameron's coat tails so I'd give it to Kathryn Bigelow.


Good point Rich, I blame Amis for the fact that we haven't gotten anything worthwhile from Cameron since Titanic!

islandclaws

I can assure you Linda did not get half of the Titanic fortune.

Most talented? Bigelow. She made Near Dark.

Solid Snake

yeah...there we go. I think Bigelow is a much more attractive woman now. She totally doesn't look her age.

dsa_shea

Wife #5 is pretty damn old.

Ash Ketchum

Marrying Cameron will do that to a girl.

leacha

That was my first thought.

Besides him being an alleged asshole you have to remember these folks live and work in Hollywood. That place is not the real world folks. It'll take a normal person and warp the values they once had.

rexinnih

Wow. Thought he was still married to Linda Hamilton.....behind the times.

Sean O'Hara

Except that Cameron's best films are the ones Hurd was involved with -- without her, he's been crap. Plus, she produced Tremors.

Supermallet

Bigelow by a long shot. Hurd is a good producer, but she often picks terrible material to put on the screen (Punisher: War Zone, anyone?).

Boba Fett

Bigelow

Jack Straw

It looks like Michael Jackson on that Aliens poster, which makes the caption fit perfectly.

filmerp

Kathryn Bigelow is no doubt the most talented and (still) hottest of the bunch!

Solid Snake

Hell yeah she is...

Dr. Mantle

Martin Scorsese
Helen Morris (22 July 1999 - present) 1 child
Barbara De Fina (8 February 1985 - 1991) (divorced)
Isabella Rossellini (29 September 1979 - November 1982) (divorced)
Julia Cameron (30 December 1975 - 1977) (divorced) 1 child
Laraine Marie Brennan (15 May 1965 - ?) (divorced) 1 child


Stanley Kubrick
Christiane Kubrick (14 April 1958 - 7 March 1999) (his death) 3 children
Ruth Sobotka (15 January 1955 - 1957) (divorced)
Toba Kubrick (28 May 1948 - 1951) (divorced)


Harlan Ellison
He married Charlotte Stein in 1956 but was divorced.
Ellison married Billie Joyce Sanderss, his second wife, in 1961 but was divorced.
Also in 1965, he married his third wife, Lory Patrick, but they later divorced.
In 1976 Ellison married his fourth wife, Lori Horowitz. They later divorced.
On Sept 7, 1986, Ellison married Susan Toth (his fifth wife) whom he had met in Scotland the year before.

Granted Ellison is not a director, but he's just as talented as the two above, and he has a huge asshole reputation.

GoldenJCJ

She's got kind of a Liz Hurley thing going on in that above pic.

Eric D.

Bigelow by a mile.

Solid Snake

I'll show her a mile....