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How do celebrities get classify being in A B C D category?
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It's pretty arbitrary...if someone is currently a huge box office attraction, and can demand (and get) top dollar, they're on the A list. At one time, being a TV star (versus a film star) automatically put you on the B list, but that's changed since the million-dollars-per-episode era. So now a B star is basically someone that was pretty hot for a while, but who hasn't had a hit film/series/song in a few years. C and D celebs are folks who never really were big stars in the first place, just made a name for themselves, say, as a character actor, or as a nightclub stand-up comedian. Or worse, someone who gained fame through no particular talent, but strictly by a fluke (think Kato Kaelin or the "Where's the Beef?" lady).
There's actually a licencing system. A board, made up of Jerry Seinfeld, George Lucas, the dog off the Fabreze ads and the Pope meet once every six months in a secret enclave somewhere in the Gobi desert. A complex matrix, incorporating the number of appearances in tabloid newspapers, lad mags, television reality shows and self-deprecating yet strictly controlled features on the Biography channel is used to calculate a position in a ranking system. The top 77 (a significant number in Maoist theology) are assigned to the A-list, and so on. Not many people know that the official list stops at Q; anyone below that is generally referred to as Z-list in a deprecating fashion.
The make-up of the judging panel has been heavily criticised in industry circles since the death of Alfred Hitchcock. Meryl Streep was generally acknowledged as a disaster, and the election of an animal was roundly condemned, although the dog has defended Seinfeld's membership in public on many occasions.
The tagging of famous people in 1998 was seen as a necessary step in protecting the public at large from over-population. Former celebrities who slip off the Q-list for longer than three years are now culled by hit squads. That berk who married Britney for 20 minutes a few months ago is being closely monitored.
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