Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell’s Soup can were hugely popular and established him as the leader of the so-called Pop Art movement. (His multi-color, multi-image portrait of Marilyn Monroe is another famous image from this era.)
By the mid-1960s Warhol had become an icon of the psychedelic generation; he made strange and lengthy experimental movies, held famous gatherings in “The Factory,” his Manhattan studio, and surrounded himself with a court of fellow artists and adoring fans. He also worked closely with the experimental rock group The Velvet Underground and (in 1969) founded the influential celebrity magazine Interview.
Warhol’s attitude was summed up in part in his statement, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was an 19th century Irish writer whose works include the play The Importance of Being Earnest and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also one of the Victorian era’s most famous dandies, a wit whose good-humored disdain for convention became less favored after he was jailed for homosexuality.
In 1895, at the height of his popularity, his relationship with the young poet Lord Alfred Douglas was declared inappropriately intimate by Douglas’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde sued for libel, but the tables were turned when it became clear there was enough evidence to charge Wilde with “gross indecency” for his homosexual relationships. He was convicted and spent two years in jail, after which he went into self-imposed exile in France, bankrupt and in ill health.
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Thurston Howell III
Thurston Howell III is a fictional character from the television series “Gilligan’s Island”. Howell is a billionaire and one of the world’s richest men, inherited from his father. He met his wife “Lovey” at Harvard and married her in 1944.
Known as the Wizard of Wall Street, he has been convicted 6 times on antitrust suits, and investigated every year for income tax evasion. He owns up to 12 corporations, and as chairman of the board, has 5,000 employees and an office on the second floor.
He refuses to do manual labor, preferring instead to hire Gilligan to work for him. He usually spends his day relaxing with his wife Lovey on the bamboo lounge chairs, sipping tropical drinks, and listening to the stock market report on the radio (which is his). He also enjoys playing golf with bamboo and seashell clubs and reading his only copy of the Wall Street Journal every day.
Ranked #9 on the Forbes Fictional 15.
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Ramon Diego / Bunny Wigglesworth as Zorro
Ramon Diego AKA Bunny Wigglesworth AKA The Gay Blade is a fictional character in the movie “Zorro the Gay Blade”. Ramon ( played by George Hamilton in a dual role) arrives at the family estate to pay respect to their late father.
Ramon, who now calls himself Bunny Wigglesworth, has just returned from the British Royal Navy. Apparently over 20 years ago, Diego and Ramon’s father sent Ramon away to the Royal Navy to make more of a “man” out of him.
Bunny, flamboyantly homosexual, reluctantly accepts the role of Zorro, but he insists on making changes to the costume; he adds fringe and tassels to the hat, makes multi-colored variations to the fabrics and exchanges the sword for a whip.
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