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islander · « **on:** November 13, 2012, 10:35:54 PM »

Cool Hall of Fame

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Paul McCartney
The Cute One was the coolest Beatle in 1968, after his partner went off the deep end. And while he almost lost it with silly love songs years later, he has always held a part of himself at a remove. / SF

Bing Crosby
We forget this, but circa 1930 Bing was all about cool, and his early film appearances demonstrate that it was all real. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:38:32 PM »

Bob Dylan
Actually, I find the Dylan schtick creepy and phony, but the talent was real, and he gets credit for not cracking a smile for 50 years. / SF

Cary Grant
Who would not want to be like Cary Grant? Even Cary Grant wanted to be like Cary Grant. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:41:50 PM »

Clark Gable
He has been dead for over 50 years and remains the standard against which all leading men are judged. / SF

Clint Eastwood
He parodied cool but was cool all the same -- and he's done nothing in the years since to blow it. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:51:23 PM »

David Bowie
The thin white Duke has never given it away. We can see him, but he never spills over. / SF

Dean Martin
No, I don't like his singing, but Dean was even cooler than Frank, because Dean didn't care and Frank only pretended not to care. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:54:32 PM »

Desi Arnaz
OK, I laughed at first. But this guy has been on TV for 60 years. And he was even cool as an old guy on Saturday Night Live. / SF

Frank Sinatra
Touchy, mean-spirited and status conscious, too worried about being cool to be innately cool, he somehow was cool anyway. Something to do with Ava Gardner, maybe. Or with the voice. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:58:06 PM »

Humphrey Bogart
The face of dignity, conscience, inner struggle, American stoicism -- of American skepticism and commitment -- of dark humor that knows the world -- singular and irreplaceable. / Mirror Syndication International

James Dean
Is it possible to be cool AND a complete mess? Dean WAS the 1950s, but he also heralded the Sixties man. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:01:20 PM »

JFK
Half movie star in the collective mind, he was a study in courage and grace and had just about everything a man could want . . . except good health. / SF

Jimi Hendrix
By popular demand -- Hendrix. Made being the best guitarist in the world look effortless, like it was an extension of his body. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:05:19 PM »

John Lennon
He was so smart, funny and resolutely himself that he could make a complete fool of himself without it ever diminishing him. / SF

Johnny Carson
Oh, yes. Urbane, well-dressed, confident, amusing -- and always with just a suggestion that he could turn mean, that there was something hidden he wasn't showing us. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:08:08 PM »

Johnny Cash
By popular demand -- what an omission. Johnny Cash was so cool he made country music cool, which is almost impossible. / SF

Keith Richards
This is the cool Keith Richards. The old guy. He was probably cool for decades, but it's the over-40 Keith, the survivor Keith -- the oh, wait, he's not an idiot, is he? Keith -- that has connected with the public imagination. / 2007 Getty Images

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islander · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:51:29 PM »

Malcolm X
Totally unfazeable, the man Ossie Davis called "our living, black manhood" became an icon for coolness and commitment a quarter century after his death. / SF

Marcello Mastroianni
He was one of the defining images of masculinity in the 20th century -- handsome but fallible, doubting, lost, questing -- virility with an element of the ridiculous -- and always self-knowing. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:56:13 PM »

Marlon Brando
He started out cool and stayed so weird that he never had a chance to be un-cool. / SF

Mick Jagger
By contrast, it was the young Mick --lordly, decadent, ambisexual, threatening, the Platonic ideal of rock star -- that captured the public mind in the late sixties and early seventies. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2012, 11:59:30 PM »

Miles Davis
Not only cool -- he wrote the book on cool. / SF

Robert Mitchum
Makes everybody else on screen look like they're having a nervous breakdown. / SF

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islander · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:03:10 AM »

Sean Connery
And he still had it when he got older. He not only kept it. He got MORE of it. / SF

Steve McQueen
Thirty years after his death, there's nothing about this man that has dated. Even his haircut. / SF

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