Who in the future will replace these indelible icons?

Hi Babs!

Is this a joke?

Who replaced the indelible stars of Bob Hope, Audrey Hepburn, Dean Martin, Dinah Shore?

The stars of tomorrow haven't been born yet!

"Icons" are not replaced, they just fade (fast) from collective memory.

Glenn Close is an icon?

Um us? Duh

We will, silly!

AI.

INDELIBLE ICONS.

Jeez. Couldn't the OP just pass out when she's drunk?

The post-op cancer ward doesn't have that many semicolons.

OP's list is a mixture of unique talents and...people who have been famous in the last 50 years for doing things lots of other people also do, only they do it a bit better or they've been luckier. The latter are replaceable: the former are not.

Nobody will replace Stephen Sondheim, just as nobody replaced Shakespeare. We don't want replacement geniuses, we want new geniuses as unique as their predecessors.

WTF, OP!

What am I? Chopped liver?

I'm rooting for this georgeous piece of perfection to be the new Diana Ross! Her career should have taken off in the US based on this performance, alone.

No one, OP. That's why they're "indelible icons."

Who is the Pamlyn Ferdin of tomorrow...the Yvonne Craig?

Has WAMPAS announced the 2025 Baby Stars yet?

There is nobody because culture sucks these days

There wasn’t a David Lynch before David Lynch and there won’t be one again

[quote]There wasn’t a David Lynch before David Lynch and there won’t be one again

There was a Tod Browning.

[quote] There wasn’t a David Lynch before David Lynch and there won’t be one again

Thank Christ.

Où sont les neiges d'antan?

r13, I have a new favorite song!

Martha Stewart has already been replaced by Nicolas Fairford 💅

Oh please. Are we not planning for desecration in the near future?

Is this list of names your pitch to Madonna for an updated Vogue?

I saw a clip of Mariah recently, and she was asked why there are no more classic songs. She said that people want them, but that what the current music industry requires is not set up for them to even happen.

As for actresses, my money is on Julia Garner. I feel like we have only seen a fraction of what she can do, given good material.

But with AI, there will be a new Meryl who can speak 2,000 dialects instead of just 20. Audiences are so lazy now, they would just love to be entertained.

There also is the potential for popular legends like Hanks and Streep to be licensed and put in new productions via AI, long after they have passed. As the technology advances, audiences would not know the difference if the material is good.

There are a lot of unknowns right now about the future of entertainment.

In the future, our masses will be entertained by a close-up of a human butt, farting. Idiocracy has predicted this, and they've been dead-on so far.

OP, Bette Davis has been dead for decades.

No one will replace them.

Tina Turner? OP, quit making dumb threads.

[quote]As for actresses, my money is on Julia Garner

With that face!? Puh-leez. She’s lucky to get tv.

Need you ask, OP?

R23...........what about me?

I understand what OP is saying. I don't see a huge number of actors/actresses being at the same level.

Same goes for music - I really don't see a lot of the songs nowadays being remembered much in the future. There are always a few a year - but God there's a lot of shit being made.

Tilly Norwood will replace all of them. She'll never get old. She'll never get fat. She'll work for free. She'll never join SAG. She'll never say no. She'll never say #MeToo. She'll work with any actor, director, and production team. She'll never turn down any project. She'll never be late to the set. She'll never decline to do any publicity. She's a billion dollar studio's dream talent. Welcome to the future.

The future icons haven't become famous yet, or are handing just below the radar of fame.

Can't speak for acting/cinema, but pop music-wise we're overdue to a massive shift into a new genre, with brand new heros who will reflect the current unrest and social changes. I vaguely remember 1991-92, radio was all pop music, boy bands, MC Hammer and the like. Suddenly, within just two years, you had the massive popular embrace of hard rock and grunge out of nowhere, with bands no one would have dreamed would be famous: Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana the biggest of these.

We're well overdue for a shift.