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So who's your cultural icon?

29 replies

MrsCurly · 24/10/2006 10:28

Has anyone voted in the BBC Greatest Living Icons search?
It's here \link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/

It's actually really hard to think of just one person!

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Lio · 24/10/2006 21:10

Blimey, I can't even think of one! Who's on your longlist, MrsCurly?

AshNotTheHousewaresOne · 25/10/2006 08:46

i've just woke up, but i'm going to go for ralph steadman............easier to pick a dead one tho!

Lio · 25/10/2006 13:52

who he?

AshNotTheHousewaresOne · 25/10/2006 16:10

he's an illustrator........most famous (probably) for his illo's for Hunter S. Thompson's work.

AshNotTheHousewaresOne · 25/10/2006 16:14

more info here
\link{http://www.ralphsteadman.com\

AshNotTheHousewaresOne · 25/10/2006 16:30

just been chatting to my dw and can i add Rupert Everett and England's king in exile Morrissey too?

MrsCurly · 25/10/2006 21:05

I'm thinking Kate Moss or Mick Jagger. Neither of them could be called high culture but they are both pretty iconic. And influential.

It's hard. Keep thinking of dead people, but they have to be alive.

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BettyBatShapedSpaghetti · 25/10/2006 21:07

David Bowie is the one that keeps springing to my mind

MrsCurly · 25/10/2006 21:11

That's a good one

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SenoraPostrophe · 25/10/2006 21:15

kate moss? no way!

in terms of influence then it should probably be paul mccartney, but I think he's a git so am loath to vote for him.

otherwise it should be david attenborough

marymillington · 25/10/2006 21:18

Vivienne Westwood
Malcolm McLaren

southeastastra · 25/10/2006 21:24

cliff richard

Greensleeves · 25/10/2006 21:28

Graham Norton

Schokofruhstucksflockenhasseri · 25/10/2006 22:11

are we talking culture icons or celebrity icons here???

EmmyLou · 25/10/2006 22:15

Joan Bakewell.

Intelligent, played key role in having women on TV taken seriously etc AND had affair with Harold Pinter WITH her dh's knowledge. Ballsy.

Not that I approve of extra-marital shenanigans of course. But it was hardly the milkman.

TinyGang · 25/10/2006 22:21

Lucien Freud.

EmmyLou · 25/10/2006 22:28

Oooh! Good one.

Call your Lucien Freud and raise you...

Umm - John Peel?

EmmyLou · 25/10/2006 22:28

living icons.

ginmummy · 25/10/2006 22:29

Jeremy Paxman

eidsvold · 25/10/2006 22:30

Sir Les Patterson right up there with Dame Edna.

Greensleeves · 25/10/2006 22:32

Piers Morgan

God help us...

TinyGang · 25/10/2006 22:32

John Peel was top of my list too and I went to post his name...

EmmyLou · 25/10/2006 22:37

Tinygang, you obviously have more tact/grey memory matter left than me.

EmmyLou · 25/10/2006 22:37

Have always LOVED Dame Edna though.

heifer · 25/10/2006 22:41

David Attenborough... He is the only reason that I agreed to watch these nature type programmes and now I love them (well some of them)...