As proof of their eerily convincing appearance, they have established personas of their own and are able to migrate from one medium to another, building virtual careers much like flesh-and-blood beauties.
This unscientific roundup of Top 40 artists' wildest movie appearances spotlights luminaries whose roles complemented or subverted their established personas.
One of the things I'm waiting to see when the final 1Q2010 FDIC numbers come out next month is to what degree these combinations of established personae and quantitative performances do or do not affect the movement of deposits.
In only a few movies, Rogen has established a persona — the underachiever, the slob loser, but a guy who is articulate, and slightly self-disgusted, and who finally pulls himself together.
Fleming plays on Fairbanks's established athletic persona (in "Clouds" he's a hypochondriac, in "Mollycoddle" a milksop) the way he toyed with Jack Haley's smoothness as the Tin Man and Ray Bolger's rubber legs as the Scarecrow.
That it's Khan who's fighting for change makes this doubly special: we're watching modern cinema's most rapid and radical modification – mollification, even – of an established star persona.
Surveying some eight years of Ms. Curtis's work, this show illustrates her progress from the persona she established as part of the New Museum's "Bad Girl" exhibition in the early 1990's to her current preoccupation with the symbolism of American abundance and consumption.
"It's certainly very compelling to be able to establish your persona and preferences," he said.
