That A-List keeps getting bigger and bigger

A featured article on Yahoo last week proclaimed that President Obama was feeling pressure from "A-listers" on gay marriage. Accompanying the headline were 3 head shots of, from left to right, Scott Fujita, Anne Hathaway, and Sean Parker.

That A-list is getting bigger and bigger every day, isn't it I guess it goes to show what Andy Warhol said: "In the future, everyone will be lumped into a vague conception of an 'A-list' for 15 minutes." Or something like that.

Anne Hathaway is an A-lister. She just hosted the Oscars. The other two guys might get into a nice Oscar night party, but not the "Vanity Fair" one, I'll bet.

Fujita is a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns. 'Nuff said. The Browns haven't had an A-lister since the Nixon administration.

Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, can maybe buy his way into the cool spots, but the only way he is an A-lister is when he's Justin Timberlake, who played him in "The Social Network."

Does Yahoo really think the weight of these people is building the pressure on Obama to consider fighting for gay marriage legislation? "Mr. President, Scott Fujita has gone on record as supporting this legislation..." "Damn it, they've got Fujita? That does it, I don't care what happens to the budget, we're putting everything into gay marriage!"

OK, maybe I'm nitpicking, but it's bad enough the C-list is increasingly overlapping with the A-list in today's mass media culture. Let's preserve some exclusivity for the A-list.