Real people and fictional characters who could of,
Charles Addams (wry cartoonist of "Addams Family" fame)
Isabelle Adjani (French actress)
Louisa May Alcott (feminist and children's writer)
Woody Allen (misanthropic film director and actor)
Marc Almond (Soft Cell vocalist, melodramatic artist)
Tori Amos (moody alternative rock singer)
Laurie Anderson (avant-garde musician)
Adam Ant (New Wave playboy)
Marie Antoinette (cake-eating Queen of France)
Antonin Artaud (anguished metaphysician of the theatre)
Arthur Ashe (tennis superstar)
Fred Astaire (can't sing, can't act, can dance a little)
Josephine Baker (creator of the risqué "Banana Dance")
Antonio Bandares (luscious Latin actor)
Tallulah Bankhead (silent-screen vamp)
Brigitte Bardot (sexy French actress)
Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer, choreographer)
Kathleen Battle (tempermental opera diva)
Charles Baudelaire (dark romantic 19th century gothic poet)
Aubrey Beardsley (decadent nouveau artist)
Hector Berlioz (wild, misunderstood-in-his-time French composer)
Sarah Bernhardt (luxuriant nineteenth-century actress)
Ambrose Bierce (Victorian horror writer)
Helena Bonham-Carter (luscious actress)
David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Modern Lover)
Boy George (gender-bending New Romantic)
Kenneth Branagh (Shakespearean actor, director)
Marlon Brando (a great actor and sex symbol, once upon a time)
Poppy Z. Brite (twisted modern Gothic writer)
Emily Brontë (wild woman writer of the English moors)
Louise Brooks (silent-screen actress, nicknamed "Lulu")
Pierce Brosnan (dashing actor)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Victorian poet and eternal romantic)
Drew Barrymore (trampy young actress)
William S. Burroughs (Beat writer, junkie, iconoclast)
David Byrne (rock musician, artist)
Lord Byron, George Gordon (poet, epitome of the brooding Romantic)
John Cage (modern composer)
Maria Callas (brilliant, controversial modern opera singer)
Dora Carrington (Bloomsbury painter)
Nick Cave (moody rocker)
Paul Cèzanne (post-Impressionist painter)
Marc Chagall (modern French painter)
Jackie Chan (martial artist, actor, filmmaker)
Charlie Chaplin (actor, comedian, film maker)
Cher (trend-following singer, actress)
Kate Chopin (Victorian feminist writer)
Frederick Chopin (Romantic pianist and composer)
Christo & Jeanne-Claude (modern sculptors/self-publicists)
Patsy Cline (miserable country singer)
Jean Cocteau (avant-garde French film maker)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Romantic poet, opium addict)
Colette (uninhibited French writer)
Aaron Copeland (American composer)
Francis Ford Coppola (seminal filmmaker)
Billy Corgan (lead singer/guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins)
Quentin Crisp (gay writer)
e.e. cummings (poet not fond of punctuation)
Tim Curry (actor, singer, Sweet Transvestite)
Leonardo Da'Vinci (painter, inventor, all around Renaissance man)
Salvador Dalí (surrealistic artist)
Claire Danes (intense actress)
Daniel Day Lewis (versatile actor)
Claude Debussy (French composer)
Catherine Denueve (slyly gorgeous actress)
Johnny Depp (quirky actor)
Neil Diamond (cheesy pop singer)
Diana, Princess of Wales (gorgeous, emotional, sensational royalty)
Leonardo DiCaprio (another young, brooding actor)
Marlene Dietrich (stunning actress)
Divine (trash-movie actor, cross-dresser)
Shannen Doherty (bitchy young actress)
Donatello (Italian sculptor)
Fran Drescher (that whiny, fashion-plate Nanny on TV)
Isadora Duncan (founder of modern dance)
Duran Duran (trendy pop band)
Duke Ellington (jazz master)
Erté (art-deco fashion designer)
Marianne Faithfull (pop singer)
Douglas Fairbanks (swashbuckling actor)
Parry Farrell (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Lollapalloza instigator)
Frederico Fellini (artsy film director)
Abel Ferrara (artsy film-maker)
Ralph Fiennes (dark, brooding actor)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (decadent writer)
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist)
E. M. Forster (Edwardian writer, repressed homosexual)
Dave Gahan (suicidal Depeche Mode lead vocalist)
Rudy Galindo (beautiful, brilliant, inspiring ice skater)
Greta Garbo (actress, recluse)
Judy Garland (actress, singer, dancer)
Jean Paul Gaultier (wild fashion designer)
Jean Genet (French criminal, writer, critic)
George and Ira Gershwin (composer and lyricist team)
Terry Gilliam (wacky cartoonist, film director)
Philip Glass (modern composer)
Joel Grey (theater actor)
Radcylffe Hall (writer, cross-dresser)
Audrey Hepburn (graceful, stylish actress)
Fanny Hill (prostitute, writer)
Billie Holiday (blues singer)
Eric Idle (silly comedian, actor)
Steve Jobs (charismatic computer inventor)
Betsy Johnson (funky fashion designer)
James Joyce (experimental Irish writer)
John Keats (consumptive Romantic poet)
Jack Kerouac (Beat poet)
Eartha Kitt (jazz singer, catwoman)
Christian LaCoix (outrageous fashion designer)
Bruce Lee (the first famous martial artist)
Brandon Lee (actor, "The Crow")
Christopher Lee (vampire B-movie actor)
Annie Leibovitz (fashionable photographer)
Janet Leigh (actress)
Annie Lennox (synthpop musician)
Liberace (bejewelled singer)
Lestat de Lioncourt (egotistical vampire)
Louis XIV of France (the Sun King)
George Lucas (imaginative film director)
David Lynch (weird film director)
Kyle MacLachlan (quirky actor)
Madonna (singer, dancer, pop icon)
Gustav Mahler (morbid composer)
Louis Malle (French film director)
Robert Mapplethorpe (controversial photographer)
Mary, Queen of Scots (ill-fated monarch)
Armistead Maupin (clever modern writer)
Peter Max (trippy pop artist)
George Michael (pop singer)
Michelangelo (Renaissance painter, sculptor)
Henry Miller (raunchy novelist)
Margaret Mitchell (writer of Gone With the Wind)
Molière (comedic French playwright)
Claude Monet (Impressionist painter)
Marilyn Monroe (actress, sex symbol)
Jeanne Moreau (French actress)
William Morris (Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer)
Morrissey (melodramatic pop musician)
Jim Morrison (rock poet and legend)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer, musical genius)
Peter Murphy (the reluctant godfather of Goth)
Anais Nin (erotic writer, diarist)
Scarlett O'Hara (southern belle)
Gary Oldman (actor of many moods, most of them brooding)
Yoko Ono (some kind of pretentious artist)
Camille Paglia (neo-feminist scholar and big mouth)
Dorothy Parker (writer, critic, wit)
Maxfield Parrish (fantastical artist)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian director)
Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous (drunken, slutty, trend-following, celebrity name-dropping, shallow, vain, utterly hilarious and delightful wretches)
River Phoenix (dead young actor)
Edith Piaf (elegant, tragic French diva)
Pablo Picasso (artist, creator of Cubism)
Mary Pickford (silent-screen star, party hostess)
Brad Pitt (pretty boy actor)
Edgar Allan Poe (insane horror writer)
Louis Pointe du Lac (really depressed vampire)
Roman Polanski (pretentious film director)
Elvis Presley ("the King")
the artist formerly known as Prince (innovative rock/r&b/pop musician with a fetish for the color purple)
Henry Purcell (eminent English opera composer)
Man Ray (photographer)
Keanu Reeves (none too brilliant actor)
Trent Reznor (volatile alternative musician)
Anne Rice (pop horror writer)
Keith Richards (decadent rocker)
Arthur Rimbaud (French Symbolist writer)
Molly Ringwald (former teen idol)
Ginger Rogers (dancer, actress)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet)
Isabelli Rossellini (elegant, talented actress and model)
RuPaul (very tall transvestite singer/dancer)
Ken Russell (horror film director)
Winona Ryder (precious goth-girl actress)
Vita Sackville-West (painter, lesbian lover)
George Sand AKA Mme. Aurore Dudevant (writer, rouge, cross-dresser)
Selena (Tex/Mex singer and dancer, died tragically young)
William Shakespeare (premier English playwright)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet)
Siouxsie Sioux (punk/goth chanteuse)
Patti Smith (poet, rocker)
Robert Smith (lead singer/songwriter of the Cure)
Aaron Spelling (cheesy but very successful t.v. producer)
Annie Sprinkle (post-porn modernist)
George Stephanopoulos (spin doctor, campaign manager)
Sting, AKA Gordon Sumner (former punk, now pop singer)
Bram Stoker (writer of Dracula)
Algernon Swinburne (another tortured Victorian writer)
Quentin Tarantino (film writer/director/actor/poseur)
Elizabeth Taylor (film diva)
Uma Thurman (versatile, sexy actress)
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (ice skating team)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French artist)
Deanna Troi (Enterprise Counselor)
Rudolph Valentino (actor, legendary lover)
Eddie Van Halen (guitar virtuoso)
Bob Villa (home construction expert)
Antonio Vivaldi (classical composer and violin virtuoso)
Andy Warhol (pop artist)
John Waters (tasteless film maker)
Mae West (buxom actress, comedian)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (pop musical writer)
Orson Wells (maverick film director, writer, and actor)
John William Waterhouse (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
Walt Whitman (American poet)
Oscar Wilde (writer, wit, dandy)
Ed Wood (maker of the world's worst films)
Virginia Woolf (a Toreador of one's own)
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