by Dr S Guru

Created on: April 13, 2009

Sadly it doesn't take much at all to make a celebrity an A-List celebrity anymore. If you know where the good nightclubs are to be seen or you can score yourself a rich boyfriend (even if he's on the Z-List) or if you can fit into clothes in the kiddies section of your local department store, you too can become an A-List celebrity, of course the quickest way to the top is to get a Z-lister and make a home movie with them. I mean let's face it, it gets a bit much when celebrities try to out do each other for the cover of gossip magazines with the competition rules being get caught 'Wearing no panties' or 'Throwing up'. Antics like these not only work well by getting the attention of the paparazzi, they get people talking about you and we all know that negative attention is still attention.

Once the celebrity has become an A-Lister, the hard part is staying one as their lives have to become more of a circus and the stunts have to be bigger and better each time to keep the world interested, so what if you get drunk, get married, get undrunk, get married again, get pregnant, get drunk, get pregnant again, get divorced, get a restraining order against your mom, get drunk, get your kids taken off you, get your paparazzi stalker to share your bed, get your head shaved, get put in rehab, get drunk.... We want more.

Some celebrities like George Clooney get away with being an A-List celebrity without too much media speculation and hassle, could it be he is an A-List celebrity based on his body of work? Well, this may be, but the face of the A-List celebrity is changing with the new generation. A-List to a teenager nowadays constitutes how many times you appear on the cover of a magazine or how many times you have been on MTV or if you have been in trouble with the law lately, it has nothing to do with whether your body of work is exemplary...that just means you are a good actor not that you are A-List. There are many young actresses around that have done an amazing amount of good solid work in their short years who will never be classed as an A-List celebrity to this young generation because they have never done anything outside of their profession that has been bad enough to warrant media attention for their negative behavior.

That being said, what makes a celebrity an A-Lister in this day and age is really quite confusing because so called D-Listers are often more popular and just because the stars themselves and the media hype a celebrity up, it doesn't mean that the general public follow suit. You see the problem is there are way too many celebrities, actors, actresses, singers and bands nowadays to keep track of them all and A-List doesn't really mean A-List like it did twenty or more years ago when only the 'odd few' of the 'odd few' stood out.

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