What makes a person an A lister,B lister or C lister in hollywood...???

Question

I mean who can be in any of those categories,who decides,who is or who is not...???
What does it put you on those lists...????

Answer 1

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The Answer ***** at eonline explains it:

Each subsector of the Biz has its own rules. Among the Industry journalists--people who use words like prexy as a noun and ankle as a verb--the A-list is determined almost solely by an actor's per-picture fee. Only actors making at least $15 million are counted. Everybody else, well, it doesn't really exist.

Among marketers, the rules are different. An actress is not an actress but a brand, like a Wal-Mart or a McDonald's, only with two flamingo legs, $3,000 worth of hair extensions and a delightfully exaggerated-looking, pumpkin-shaped head perched on tiny shoulders. To marketers, an A-lister is someone, usually an actress, who could cut any endorsement deal with any company.

"Super, super, superhot right now" is how marketer and publicist Ronn Torrosian describes A-listers to this *****. "Great image, great brand, really likable. And just superhot. Very much the influencers."

To Torrosian, Jessica Simpson is an A. But the other Flying Jessica--Alba--is not. She is a B in Torrosian's world.

"A B-lister is either someone who used to be hot and has taken a step down or someone who was hot two or three years ago. Or someone who is on her way up, like Jessica Alba," Torossian says.

Another bellwether of A-list status: How a star is treated at the hottest clubs in Los Angeles. An A-lister need not call in advance and get on the guest list. Instead, he or she merely shows up, stumbles in the secret VIP entrance, orders $500 in free bottle service, gets into a hair-pulling brawl with, say, some chick who is making eyes at her boy, throws up all over Alyssa Milano in the bathroom, passes out and wakes up in some strange guy's apartment at the Oakwood.

You may be wondering at this point about the status of Lindsay Lohan. I have no idea why that is. Lohan certainly is fashionable enough to land the cover of a Vanity Fair or W, but she's no A-lister to marketers like Torossian. In fact, Torossian says, she "has a tremendous image problem that is not so different from Britney Spears. They have made laughingstocks of themselves--they are bleeding B's."

Sure, Torossian admits, fashion designers are happy to send their clothes to Lohan for her to wear. But the difference between Lohan and an A-lister, he says, is that "they wouldn't pay her" for the privilege.

C-listers, meanwhile, are harmless types who always have work but will always have to call in advance and charm someone in order to get a good table at the clubs.

"It's someone who makes a solid living but who isn't going to be the next Brad Pitt," Torossian says. "Montel. Tony Danza. Actors who have been around forever."

Finally, the D-list. Do not get Torossian started.

"Every time a reality show ends, I get a call from a contestant who wants to extend that two minutes of fame," says Torossian, who represents actually famous clients, like Lil' Kim. "And of course, they have no money to spend, but they are convinced they are going to be the next Oprah Winfrey. People on The Surreal Life are D-listers."

As for Griffin, it's a toss-up. For this *****, anyone who calls Renée Zellweger "a puffy-faced coke whore" is an A-lister forever.

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Answer 2

Status
Talent
Popularity

Answer 3

duh think high school, alister = jock/cheerleader and so forth

Answer 4

it depends on the success and quality of your work.

Answer 5

the media