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Time's List of 100 Influential People Omits Bea Arthur, again
Posted by: James Lileks
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Updated: April 29, 2010 - 11:06 AM
Time magazine has put out its annual list of 100 influential people. Magazines love lists; they’re just crack-dusted carmel-corn. Readers can’t get enough. This year’s issue is full of MSG, including “Top Ten Religious Relics” and “Top Ten YouTube train wrecks.” Do they mean people who made a fool of themselves, or the most awesome videos of fully-laden rail-cars arcing off a cliff into a chasm? Click and find out, if you must.
Anyway, this year they’ve let some celebs right about other celebs, which leads to this moment in human history: Betty White, nominating Sandra Bullock. They’re both fine performers, but I’m not sure they’re in the top 100 people who affect our world, unless Sandra has now provided inspiration to every other women stuck with a husband who cheated on her with inked-up Nazi-skanks. I’m not sure Betty White actually wrote this, either:
I have always been a big fan of the lady, as has everybody else, but I hadn't met Sandra Bullock, 45, until we worked together on The Proposal.
Sticking her age right in there shrieks of the Time mag stylebook, doesn’t it? You can imagine Betty being quite irritated. Whose business is it how old she is, anyway?
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