Jack Vettriano (OBE) is now not only a household name, but a fixture, thanks mainly to The Singing Butler, his painting of an elegant couple waltzing on a blustery beach as two windswept servants look on.
Three best supporting actress Oscar nominations in three years (for Garp, The Big Chill and The Natural) put her at the front of casting directors' minds, and by the end of the 1980s she had become a permanent cultural fixture thanks to her roles in two huge hits of the decade: Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons.
In addition to being the frontman and primary songwriter, Mr. Martin is a tabloid fixture thanks to his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow (they have two children: a daughter, Apple, 4, and a son, Moses, 2), which has only amplified the sense that the group's other three, less visible members (Jonny Buckland is the guitarist and Will Champion is the drummer) are little more than sidemen.
Bundchen is also a tabloid fixture, thanks to her stormy relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Mama June has become a TV fixture, thanks to TLC's reality hit "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo".
He's a street style fixture, thanks in no small part to his distinctive, adventurous personal style.
Reynolds, who died Wednesday at age 84, was also a gossip fixture thanks to her friendship with the high priestess of the tabloids, Elizabeth Taylor.
Steven Spielberg: Hollywood's highbrow hitmaker has been a Forbes 400 fixture since 1995 thanks to a heady income stream from theme parks, DreamWorks stock and his litany of box office smashes, including Jaws, Saving Private Ryan and Jurassic Park.
While it's roots lie in the emancipation of enslaved Africans in Trinidad, it has become an important annual fixture in Brooklyn thanks to the Big Apple's Caribbean transplants.
