154th on VH1's "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons"

joywitch_m_curmudgeon joym999 at aol.com
Tue Jul 22 00:40:45 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y...> 
wrote:
> VH1 has ranked HP as 154th in its list of 
> "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons

This is the stupidest list I've ever seen.  OK, it's a list of 
*American* icons, so then how, exactly, does Princess Diana rate #9?  
Just because she died?   And Oprah is the #1 pop culture icon? 
Yeesh.  I can understand the Beatles and the Stones being up there 
even though they're British, with all their influence on the U.S., 
but Brad Pitt?  Nicole Kidman?  Arnold Schwarzenegger?  Katherine 
Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, various Kennedys, I can 
understand.  Bruce Springsteen, of course.  But Will Smith?  Justin 
Timberlake is #112 and Alfred Hitchcock is #113?  I suppose we should 
be grateful that Monica Lewinsky scored even lower than Harry, 
although the fact that she is immediately followed by Leonard Nimoy 
and then Liberace is more than a little disturbing.

Who makes this moronic list, anyway?

</rant>

> ...where would YOU have placed HP on this list?

Much, much higher obviously, but not as high as Bruce. Maybe #2. 
Sorry.

--Joywitch





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