Juliette and the dicks

It's tempting to look hatefully upon Juliette Lewis. On screen, she comes off like an attention-seeking tweaker in even the most measured films. In her more recent role as a rock frontwoman (playing Aug. 19 at 7th Street Entry), she's a grating presence that's part Patti Smith and part Hedwig without appealing to fans of either. Hell, even the singer-actress herself looks back with disdain on the horrifying cornrows she sported at the 1992 Oscars. But Lewis deserves more leniency than most of her "double-threat" peers, if only because she's had to put up with an uncanny string of notorious assholes throughout her career. That near-molestation by Robert De Niro in Cape Fear was just the beginning. Here's an expanded list of dicks she's dealt with:

Brad Pitt
Despite his voracious child-rearing and post-Katrina redevelopment work in New Orleans, Pitt still ranks high on many Hollywood dick lists. Chalk that up mostly to his infamous dumping of a sitcom sweetheart in favor of a tattooed sexpot. But the dickitude runs deeper. Back in the early '90s, Pitt enjoyed a very public coupling with a barely legal Juliette Lewis—she was 16, he was 26. He also treated her like shit on-screen in the 1993 thriller Kalifornia.

Woody Allen
Yeah, Annie Hall is awesome. But you can't leave Mia Farrow for her much younger adopted daughter and not be a pretty serious dick. In the same year that Allen sullied his legacy by revealing a relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, he released Husbands And Wives, in which he plays a college professor who finds himself the object of a May-December crush. The doe-eyed student in question? Juliette Lewis.

Oliver Stone
His heart is occasionally in the right place, but Stone's heavy-handed moralizing and self-righteous revisionism make him a fairly notorious wad among Hollywood helmers. He hired Lewis to play the controversial antiheroine of 1994's Natural Born Killers, a grotesquely over-the-top satire on American violence and the media who thrive on it. Allergic to subtlety and seemingly addicted to his own grandiosity, he's the absolute last guy you'd ask to join a golfing foursome.

L. Ron Hubbard
She's not a spokesperson on the level of Tom Cruise, but Lewis has been entangled with the Church Of Scientology for many years. She even credits the group for helping her kick a persistent drug habit. For better or worse, that means she's been rubbing spiritual elbows with the organization's late founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Accounts vary, but as depicted in numerous exposés and anti-Scientology screeds, LRH was a power-mongering dick whose turn-ons included fraud, spousal abuse, racism, and the greedy manipulation of countless followers.

Geoffrey Lewis
Admittedly, this one's a bit of a stretch. Veteran character actor Geoffrey Lewis, a.k.a. Juliette's dad, seems like a pretty decent guy. But his early, outspoken support for Scientology kind of makes him a dick by association (see L. Ron Hubbard above). Beyond that, he's shown an uncanny ability to bring countless dicks to life on the big screen, from the legendary outlaw ringleader of Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter to a pill-packing pedophile opposite Brooke Shields in Tilt.

Tom Sizemore
An assault conviction, a nasty meth habit, and an even nastier sex tape all document Sizemore's unsavory real-life track record. As an actor, he's channeled his dark side into some memorably prickish and misogynistic roles, two of them opposite Juliette Lewis. He plays a long-haired pre-millennial douchebag in Strange Days and a hooker-snuffing hypocrite in Natural Born Killers.

Vincent Gallo
Mr. Gallo is adept at the kinds of dick moves a lot of non-dicks quietly envy. For his famously ill-received film The Brown Bunny, he shot himself getting real-deal fellatio from Chloe Sevigny. He's an unapologetic right-winger who says stuff like "I would rather have dinner with Newt [Gingrich] or Dick Armey than with Bruce Springsteen." He's been known to refuse interviews for magazines that won't put him on the cover. Later this year, he'll be heard and not seen alongside Lewis in the Swedish animated feature Metropia.