5-457: An A-list actor is a major movie star , or one of the most bankable actors in a film industry . The A-list is part of a larger guide called The Hot List , which ranks the bankability of 1,400 movie actors worldwide, and has become an industry-standard guide in Hollywood. American entertainment journalist James Ulmer , the guide's creator, has also developed a version including directors,
10-708: The Hot List of Directors . The Ulmer scale categorizes the lists into A+, A, B+, B, C, and D listings. Similarly, in India, there is three-tier strategy, tier-1, tier-2 and tier-3, which are based on the saleability and box office collection capability of a star. In popular usage outside the film industry, an A-list celebrity is any person with an admired or desirable social status. Even socialites with popular press coverage and elite associations have been termed as A-list celebrities. Similarly, less popular persons and current teen idols are referred to as B-list celebrities – and
15-415: The news industry; for example, Paul Lynde , by this point in his career best known for being on the daytime game show Hollywood Squares , went largely unnoticed by the supermarket tabloids , and his homosexuality (which would have drawn attention for bigger celebrities) went largely unreported. Kathy Griffin , an American comedian who became widely known for her frequent appearances on such programs, used
20-435: The ones with lesser fame as C-list ones. In 2000, Entertainment Weekly interpreted a C-list celebrity as "that guy (or sometimes that girl), the easy-to-remember but hard-to-name character actor ". The D-list is for someone whose celebrity is so obscure that they are generally only known for appearances as celebrities on panel game shows and reality television . In the late 20th century, D-listers were largely ignored by
25-586: The term in a tongue-in-cheek manner for her 2005 TV special The D-List and her 2005 TV series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List . The term "D-list" is derived from the lowest rating used for the Ulmer scale. Other successive letters of the alphabet beyond D, as in the terms E-list and Z-list , are sometimes used for exaggeration or comic effect but effectively have the same meaning as D-list . Movie star Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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