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V10LETBLUES

Prince makes list of 100 Coolest Americans

don't know if this has been posted yet, but Prince been added to an exibit featuring the 100 coolest Americans

The 100 coolest Americans

Photographic exhibition of the 100 most cool Americans includes film star James Dean, writer Ernest Hemingway and singer Madonna

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10621202/The-100-coolest-Americans.html

You know the 100 coolest Americans must be a pretty hip bunch if Janis Joplin, Chet Baker, Dean Martin and George Clooney fail to make the cut.

Elvis Presley, James Dean, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna do make the choice of a hundred actors, actresses, artists, musicians and writers in the United States whose creativity and style have shaped the concept of cool. There is even a welcome place for country singer Willie Nelsonin the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

The exhibition, which took five years to bring to fruition, has been put together by Joel Dinerstein, professor of American Civilisation at Tulane University in New Orleans, and Frank Goodyear III, co-director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

To make their selection, the two curators came up with four defining factors of cool, of which people chosen had to fit at least three categories:

THE AMERICAN COOL 100 LIST:

The Roots of Cool

Fred Astaire

Bix Beiderbecke

Louise Brooks

James Cagney

Frederick Douglass

Greta Garbo

Ernest Hemingway

Zora Neale Hurston

Jack Johnson

Duke Kahanamoku

Buster Keaton

HL Mencken

Georgia O’Keeffe

Dorothy Parker

Bessie Smith

Willie “The Lion” Smith

Mae West

Walt Whitman

Bert Williams

The Birth of Cool

Lauren Bacall

James Baldwin

Humphrey Bogart

Marlon Brando

Lenny Bruce

William S Burroughs

Raymond Chandler

Gary Cooper

Miles Davis

James Dean

Duke Ellington

Dizzy Gillespie

Woody Guthrie

Audrey Hepburn

Billie Holiday

Jack Kerouac

Gene Krupa

Robert Mitchum

Thelonius Monk

Anita O’Day

Charlie Parker

Jackson Pollock

Elvis Presley

Frank Sinatra

Barbara Stanwyck

Muddy Waters

John Wayne

Hank Williams

Lester Young

Cool and the Counterculture

Muhammad Ali

James Brown

Jim Brown

Johnny Cash

Angela Davis

Joan Didion

Faye Dunaway

Bob Dylan

Clint Eastwood

Walt Frazier

Marvin Gaye

Deborah Harry

Jimi Hendrix

Bruce Lee

Steve McQueen

Bill Murray

Paul Newman

Jack Nicholson

Bonnie Raitt

Lou Reed

Carlos Santana

Patti Smith

Susan Sontag

Hunter S Thompson

John Travolta

Andy Warhol

Malcolm X

Frank Zappa

The Legacy of Cool

Afrika Bambaataa

Jean-Michel Basquiat

David Byrne

Kurt Cobain

Johnny Depp

Missy Elliott

Tony Hawk

Chrissie Hynde

Jay-Z

Steve Jobs

Michael Jordan

Madonna

Willie Nelson

Prince

Susan Sarandon

Selena

Tupac Shakur

Sam Shepard

Bruce Springsteen

Jon Stewart

Quentin Tarantino

Benicio del Toro

Tom Waits

Neil Young

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Reply #1 posted 02/11/14 7:17am

purplesnowlove

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He is the coolest in the universe!!

a prince news a day, keeps the doctor away prince

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Reply #2 posted 02/11/14 11:41am

muirdo

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Great to see Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young make the list falloff

Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
woot!

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Reply #3 posted 02/11/14 1:13pm

nursev	wait...Willie Nelson is above Prince no way in hell
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Reply #4 posted 02/11/14 2:05pm

V10LETBLUES	nursev said: wait...Willie Nelson is above Prince no way in hell it's in alphabetical order
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Reply #5 posted 02/11/14 6:15pm

buttcheeks	WTF Ever... No Marilyn Monroe~ [Edited 2/11/14 18:17pm]
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Reply #6 posted 02/11/14 6:55pm

Byron	No Grace Jones, huh?...
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Reply #7 posted 02/11/14 8:16pm

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I thought, back in 2003, he was "provisionally cool" - like his net worth, his coolness factor seems to have risen since then.
lol

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Reply #8 posted 02/11/14 11:38pm

chriss

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Oh Please..........???

"Now where i come from we don't let society tell us how it's supposed to be....."

COOL? where's Morris Day? smile

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Reply #9 posted 02/12/14 1:57am

PhantomOfSolac e	Nice! I also got excited seeing Tom Waits making the list... That guy is just REALLY COOL!!!
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Reply #10 posted 02/14/14 4:43am

dJJ	Nice. Personally I think Beyonce is way cooler than Jay-Z. Jack Johnson??? Really? And yes, Willy Nelson def. belongs on the 'cool' list. And Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones and Eryka Badu should be on the cool list too. 99% of my posts are ironic. Maybe this post sides with the other 1%.
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Reply #11 posted 02/15/14 8:52am

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dJJ said:

Nice.

Personally I think Beyonce is way cooler than Jay-Z.

Jack Johnson??? Really?

And yes, Willy Nelson def. belongs on the 'cool' list.

And Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones and Eryka Badu should be on the cool list too.

I do hope they mean the early 20th century heavyweight boxing champ, and not the early 21st century snooze-pop champ.

It's been too long since you've had your ass kicked properly:

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My band - listen and 'like' us, if you please

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Reply #12 posted 02/16/14 11:49pm

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ReddishBrownOne said:

dJJ said:

Nice.

Personally I think Beyonce is way cooler than Jay-Z.

Jack Johnson??? Really?

And yes, Willy Nelson def. belongs on the 'cool' list.

And Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones and Eryka Badu should be on the cool list too.

I do hope they mean the early 20th century heavyweight boxing champ, and not the early 21st century snooze-pop champ.

Yes, Jack Johnson is in the "Roots of Cool" section, so it's the early 20th century. NOT the snooze pop guy.
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Reply #13 posted 02/17/14 7:23pm

pureTsexy	V10LETBLUES said: nursev said: wait...Willie Nelson is above Prince no way in hell it's in alphabetical order Thank god, cause I was about to get really upset lol
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Reply #14 posted 02/18/14 3:46am

SweeTeaII	there are SOME cool people on the list, but where is Barack Obama? Hell, even Bill Clinton is cooler than James Dean. And where is Michael Jackson? This list is not cool, there is a difference from being slow and being cool. Some of these people on this list just slow. "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so". Thomas Jefferson
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Reply #15 posted 02/18/14 3:49am

SweeTeaII	And Christopher Walken is not on the list either! Denzel Washington? Really? Samuel L. not cool? "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so". Thomas Jefferson
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Reply #16 posted 02/18/14 4:56am

Byron

SweeTeaII said:

there are SOME cool people on the list, but where is Barack Obama? Hell, even Bill Clinton is cooler than James Dean. And where is Michael Jackson? This list is not cool, there is a difference from being slow and being cool. Some of these people on this list just slow.

James Dean introduced "cool" to the masses and has remained an icon of cool for 50+ years--of course he belongs on the list...and Michael Jackson shouldn't be anywhere near a "Top 100 Coolest People" list. That whole giant statue of himself floating down the Thames should ban him from any "Coolest People" list for the next 100 years.

Besides, the article states what it used as a barometer for anyone to be on the list. A person had to be or achieved at least three of these things before being considered for the list:

• originality of artistic vision and especially of a signature style

• cultural rebellion, or transgression in a given historical moment

• iconicity, or a certain level of high-profile recognition

• recognised cultural legacy (lasting more than a decade)

MJ meets two of these things, tops. His artistic vision was not original and he's definitely not the first person you think of when you hear "cultural rebellion" lol ...

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Reply #17 posted 02/18/14 6:20am

V10LETBLUES	SweeTeaII said: there are SOME cool people on the list, but where is Barack Obama? Hell, even Bill Clinton is cooler than James Dean. And where is Michael Jackson? This list is not cool, there is a difference from being slow and being cool. Some of these people on this list just slow. MJ has never been cool.
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Reply #18 posted 02/18/14 7:15am

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Er... Greta Garbo wasn't American. And neither is Neil Young.

Someone didn't check their facts lol

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Reply #19 posted 02/18/14 9:07am

Byron	VenusBlingBling said: Er... Greta Garbo wasn't American. And neither is Neil Young. Someone didn't check their facts I'm pretty sure at least Garbo became a U.S. citizen, though... [Edited 2/18/14 9:08am]
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Reply #20 posted 02/19/14 10:52am

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Byron said:

VenusBlingBling said:

Er... Greta Garbo wasn't American. And neither is Neil Young.

Someone didn't check their facts

I'm pretty sure at least Garbo became a U.S. citizen, though...

[Edited 2/18/14 9:08am]

Oh, I didn't know that... boxed

But still.....

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Reply #21 posted 02/24/14 11:30am

dJJ	So, we do agree that Prince is Cool, right? 99% of my posts are ironic. Maybe this post sides with the other 1%.
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Reply #22 posted 02/25/14 7:37pm

artist76

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dJJ said:

So, we do agree that Prince is Cool, right?

Funny you have to ask that (so timidly) on a Prince "fan site."
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