Forget Emmy nominations, Hiddleston received the ultimate pop culture accolade: a stint as Taylor Swift's boyfriend.
In his review of "Devil May Care" (June 29), Alex Berenson claims that, with the first Austin Powers film in 1997, the James Bond character "won the ultimate pop culture trophy, a full-on screen parody".
This season's ultimate pop culture extravaganza, "Robots, Astronauts and Space Toys: The Robert Lesser Collection," will be an exhibition of 250 examples at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, from Nov. 10 to Feb. 1.
Since then, his fame has spread worldwide, and in 1997 he won the ultimate pop culture trophy, a full-on screen parody, the sophomoric and sometimes hilarious "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," which imagined a British secret agent thrust from the louche 1960s into the politically correct 1990s.
The colorful sea slug known as Chromodoris reticulata (center image) boasts the ultimate throwaway culture.
Yet opera was once the ultimate popular culture of its day, enticing audiences who could sing along to music composed by men who enjoyed the stature of today's rock stars.
Technology has created the ultimate casual culture, which treats everything and everyone as casually disposable.
Heading home on Sunset, I saw this billboard, the ultimate auto-culture form of memorial.
Today, we seem to see the ultimate threat to culture as coming from those who live immediately in their culture, who lack the proper distance.
Biologists, psychologists, and anthropologists have now begun to systematically investigate the underlying processes and the ultimate products of culture across a diversity of species, comparing and contrasting mechanistic and functional elements of both animal and human culture to uncover how and why cultural abilities evolved [9], [13].
