Couch Potato Club:
A new Turner Classic Movies (TCM) poll gauges how modern movies, stars and filmmakers stack up against Hollywood icons. The sometimes surprising results show that Johnny Depp fills Errol Flynn’s shoes, and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt capture some of the glamour of power couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But, when it comes to sex symbols, no one is quite like Marilyn Monroe.
Why doesn't someone like Megan Fox fit that role? I think she would, since Monroe was nothing more than a sex symbol. Megan Fox fits that role nearly perfectly. Yet the only people attempting to take those roles is idiots like Lindsay Lohan.
I also dont think Speilberg exactly matches up to Hitchcock. Influencial? Yes but nothing more than that.
TCM viewers probably would favor older films and stars to todays stars and film.
So the entire survey is skewed towards older Hollywood.