Winona Ryder: Free Pass to Rock Celebrity

2003_7_winonaryder.jpgIt's good to know that Winona Ryder is basically like the Welcome Wagon for any semi-cute up-and-coming would-be rocker - at least someone is looking out for the lads. That's why she was the focus of a VH1 All Access:Winona Rules! Truly, it makes sense for Winona to be featured, because as Courtney Love says, as quoted on the show's site, "You’re no one in music until you have feuded with me or until you sleep with Winona!”

The A List describes Winona as such: "Hopping from musician to actor to musician with all the agility and speed of a starved hyena targeting a limping Thompson's gazelle" and proposes a partial list of her exploits - Ryan Adams, Dodi al Fayeed, Beck, Bono, Ed Burns, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Evan Dando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., David Duchovny, Adam Duritz, Jakob Dylan, Everlast, Jimmy Fallon, Dave Grohl, Corey Haim, Chris Isaak, Courtney Love, Brittany Murphy, Chris Noth, Dave Pirner, Charlie Sheen, Christian Slater, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Westerberg, Bruce Willis, and Pete Yorn. Maybe in the next A List update, they will include her latest, Conner Oberst.

All Access: Winona Rules! airs again today at 5:30PM, VH1.

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I have clearly missed my calling as a young, up&coming rock star.

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Boo to Winona. She is an awful actress, and even managed to suck in an Adam Sandler movie. I hope her thieving ways leave her a HO-llywood outcast.

Frankenstein, you're a rock star in our books!

I remember reading a quote in last month's Spin where Conor Oberst said (last year) that he would never date Winona because she was "too old".

Perhaps, but I still haven't had sex with Winona Ryder.

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Courtney Love, Brittany Murphy? Did you just throw those in there to see if anyone was paying attention, or did i just completely miss that?

No, those are actually listed in the A-List report. And, of course, it's all true -- after all, if you can't trust anonymous, unsourced reports you read on the internet, who can you trust?

Coincidence that most of the musicians on the Winona hit list are currently residing in the "Where Are They Now?" file? Pirner, Dando, Duritz, Everlast, Westerberg, Isaak, Dylan...all have seen better days. All of which means Conner Oberst needs to fun fast. The world can't lose Desaparecidos and Bright Eyes to this woman.

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Winona is like the black widow of rockers/actors. We're lucky Johnny Depp made it out okay.

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I don't think she's dating conner anymore...

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In the industry she's referred to her as Wanna Rideher?

I'm going to be tacky and point out that the boy's name is spelled Conor. Just saying's all...

How come this article isn't entitled "Easy Ryder"? Did someone else do it first?

Maybe I should become a rock musician, I've always had a crush on Winona.

If they were still together i would have a 3some with them. winona ryder is the hottest woman in the world, and conor is the hottest guy in the world. i had the pleasure of hanging out with conor at a show and he is definitely the hottest guy in the world. so, winona and conor - if you're listening, GET BACK TOGETHER JUST FOR ONE NIGHT SO THE 3 OF US CAN HAVE A CRAZY NIGHT OF PASSION ;)

well now Conor is dating fellow label mate Maria Taylor from Azure Ray, i picked that up at the Bright Eyes show a few nights ago.

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You are all f*cking stupid.

wow! nice bunch of puritans and bedwetters there. a fine actress such as this woman you despise so much has probably more human qualities than the fucking morons who've labeled her for years. Well, not so surprising in a country where murder and rape are national sports and everyone is having fun sucking GWBush's dick. No wonder shoplifting has become a national outrage. Brave souls.

It is upsetting to see so many negative thoughts about such a fine actress as Winona Ryder. ------ Sure the lady has had some very serious personnal problems the last couple of years, but I hope the lady will overcome them and continue with a very great movie career. ----------- :) Rusty

Well, well, another BS column about Winona with a long list of her supposed lovers inflated with large amounts of the usual hot air and with the usual quotation from Courtney Love (wow, there's testimony to be taken seriously). According to these never-ending lists, everyone who ever met Winona, saw Winona, or thought of Winona is counted as her intimate lover. Anyone who ever went on a casual date with her is her passion; all of her acquaintances are asserted to be her paramours, according to these deliberately scandalmongering “commentators”. Every list I've seen including the one above is maliciously inflated to make Winona look like an obsessed nymphomaniac; if people would go back and do some research they would find that most of the people named were never intimately involved with her and Winona herself has at least once denied a lot of these connections. Yet it goes on: even casual dates are turned through innuendo into passionate affairs, more tempestuous at each retelling; Winona is "seen" passionately kissing someone at party when in reality she was in another city at the time yet the press keeps repeating and adorning the fable with more and more juicy details.
Enough already with man-eater lists and the stale shoplifting jokes! Winona is one of the most beautiful and talented actresses of our time, a first-order retro fashionista, and a classy, charitable lady who defends the unpopular causes of the downtrodden. She is, as her former co-star Ellen Burstyn once remarked, "a perfect rose."

::sigh..::
lets play nice here, children. i thought we'd sent this out AGES ago, but obviously uve all missed the memo. i SUPPOSE we'll review, though, for your sake. this is a rare opportunity, so listen carefully, now.
YOU.
CANT.
BELIEVE.
EVERYTHING.
YOU HEAR!
is that clear enough for you? or perhaps i should make it clearer for your concept-challenged little minds.
YOU.
ARE.
A BUNCH.
OF BUMBLING,
GOSH DARN.
IDIOTS!
how's that work for you? i suggest you check your mailboxes more often, that way you wont miss important newsflashes such as these. maybe post-it notes would help?

luv ya!

o, and frankenstein. btw. there's a simple explaination to why you havent done winona ryder yet, and y u NEVER WILL. and it's EXTREMELY easy to grasp, so none of you need worry about knocking yourselves out over it.
Even if she WAS A whore (you rude, assuming little b*tch, u kno who im talking to)..............................................
she wouldnt do you!

::sigh..::
lets play nice here, children. i thought we'd sent this out AGES ago, but obviously uve all missed the memo. i SUPPOSE we'll review, though, for your sake. this is a rare opportunity, so listen carefully, now.
YOU.
CANT.
BELIEVE.
EVERYTHING.
YOU HEAR!
is that clear enough for you? or perhaps i should make it clearer for your concept-challenged little minds.
YOU.
ARE.
A BUNCH.
OF BUMBLING,
GOSH DARN.
IDIOTS!
how's that work for you? i suggest you check your mailboxes more often, that way you wont miss important newsflashes such as these. maybe post-it notes would help?

luv ya!

o, and frankenstein. btw. there's a simple explaination to why you havent done winona ryder yet, and y u NEVER WILL. and it's EXTREMELY easy to grasp, so none of you need worry about knocking yourselves out over it.
Even if she WAS A whore (you rude, assuming little b*tch, u kno who im talking to)..............................................
she wouldnt do you!

Winona Ryder is a fine actress, who in her most famous roles, she played a virgin or at least never won the boy. But this was just a performance, and before Sacks incident lot of people confuse the actress with her roles. Who cares who dates, the important is the quality of her work.

Winona Ryder as a black widow is a notion I can, and like, to entertain. After all from my POV she could (Expletive deleted) me to death for all I care, if we were spiders (Oooh yeah!). I suppose a lot of those who dated her had their careers go downhill, but I suppose that's what you get from a "career distraction", heh heh. But my opinion of her is still one in the process of figuring out, there's only so much the media WANTS us to know about a celebrity, and so MUCH we have to fill in with our imagination. To me she's a FOX, a free-spirited creature of considerable intelligence and sly playfulness. And with all that bad and good that implies. Someone like that normally needs a steady source of work to pour their creative energy into, otherwise they go bonkers (Which was my opinion of the whole Saks affair.) Johnny Depp is another fox, which was IMHO why they went so well. But I actually doubt she slept with that many, she just "got a lot of pretty pretty boys, that she calls friends", to echo "Hotel California".

It's funny to see how Winona is attached to poeple she was only once seen with...

She's a fine actress and I really hope her movie career will re-engage soon...then will all this gossip stop...

Hey Vulcan, I agree, it will be great when Winona starts getting some top notch movie roles again. :) ---------- And hey StephenSlater, wise words, as always. ---------- :) Rusty

Leave Winona alone,she's one of the best.You are all jealous.

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the comments listed here for Winona Ryder do nothing else but point out the lack of seriousness this site bears.A bunch of silly kids guided by everything else but mind

Frankenstain what's you band man? I hope that one day you will have the chance to have sex with Winona. But remember: She doesn't like losers, dickheads, morons, guys that the only thing they do all day is playing their dicks. So, i guess you don't have many chances.To say this better, you don't have any chances at all. And you my sweet Jen. I have seen your face so i can understand why you are saying all these. As for katherine, it's obvious that she has made an orthographic mistake. In the phrase: "man winona is a whore" the word "winona" is false. The right is: "My mother". Go to hell idiots.

Hi All,

I was going to ignore this website, but it became far too full of errors and invictive against each other to ignore.

A. There will always be nasty hurtful people in this world. Poeple who can have no self esteem for themselves without harming others. We call them bullies and thugs, and I am currently writing one of my alligorical animal novels based on the worst case of this kind of thinking in the twentieth century.

B. I have done a considerable amount of substance abuse counseling (The correct term) over my long life and have seen many lives turned around because of doing it. That gives me deep sense of personal satisfaction.

C. Winona did have some problems. Some very bad, some that would have been lethal if she would not have stopped what she was doing. I know what she was using and in what quantities. And some of the people who have written above know of me from another web site. The Winona Ryder Film Page (WRFP) (Look for "Wolf"). She did have other problems also, but many of her problems were deeply exaggerated by the tabloid press. "What! The tabloid press overexaggerate problems for sales! Oh dear God no! Surely you jest!" you all exclaim!
No, and don't call me Shirley (Sorry, old joke.)

D. Winona did overcome those problems, in fact she has had the best recoverty that I have ever seen in any person who was as deep as she was. Winona only had to make up her own mind to recover from her problems. She did, good for her.

E. As mentioned above there are always going to be persons who feel no one should have a second chance. There are always going to be persons who hate others because of their beliefs. Who hate others because of greed or jealousy for what they themselves do not have. Who hate others becuase of who they are, or because of what they believe in. Don't be among them.

F. The members of this site can be better than that. Yes Winona had problems, yes she solved them. Do not hate each other, or her, for what are insignificant reasons. There is far too much hatred in this world already.In the middle twentieth century alone it killed over 14 million people in and out of death camps simply because of one peoples belief that others were inferior to them.

Wolfing right along here, Fred L. Tate EWC (SW) Ret.

Wolf, as always, you get right to the point and you made a very good statement. :) --------- I do hope Winona really has her stuff together now, and I'm hoping her film career, if she really wants to continue it, will get on track once again. ---------- :) Rusty

The most beautiful,talented,sweet woman on earth.
EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT.

I saw where they have released a 10th anniversary edition of reality bites on DVD and on CD. That movie is awesome...hard to believe it's been 10 years already though. Does anyone have the CD yet? They added 6 songs from the movie to it. Just wondering if it was worth buying.

Yeah, my friend just got the new Reality Bites soundtrack and it sounds pretty hot. It has 6 new songs on it that the older version didn't have, but my favorite is still "My Sharona," the songs Winona rocked out to in the gas station scene. I'm surprised so many people know about it already, it was just released last week.

By the way, what's Winona doing now?

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I love Conor AND Winona, they're both cool.

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