"Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Hollywood, CA

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black-and-white sendup of nuclear politics is among the great comedies of all time, although its subject - the end of the world - could not be more serious. Adding to its uniqueness, the title role and two other pivotal parts were played by the same actor: Peter Sellers. He, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn made a film that truly is like no other. It is loaded with funny and compelling quotes ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War room!") and has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies (including a label reading "CRM114" in "Back to the Future" and Homer Simpson riding the bomb in The Simpsons (which also deserves nomination)). As perhaps the most recognizable piece of art to come out of the Cold War, "Dr. Strangelove" should be recognized as an American icon.

Scot

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Hollywood, CA

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black-and-white sendup of nuclear politics is among the great comedies of all time, although its subject - the end of the world - could not be more serious. Adding to its uniqueness, the title role and two other pivotal parts were played by the same actor: Peter Sellers. He, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn made a film that truly is like no other. It is loaded with funny and compelling quotes ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War room!") and has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies (including a label reading "CRM114" in "Back to the Future" and Homer Simpson riding the bomb in The Simpsons (which also deserves nomination)). As perhaps the most recognizable piece of art to come out of the Cold War, "Dr. Strangelove" should be recognized as an American icon.

Scot

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Hollywood, CA

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black-and-white sendup of nuclear politics is among the great comedies of all time, although its subject - the end of the world - could not be more serious. Adding to its uniqueness, the title role and two other pivotal parts were played by the same actor: Peter Sellers. He, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn made a film that truly is like no other. It is loaded with funny and compelling quotes ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War room!") and has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies (including a label reading "CRM114" in "Back to the Future" and Homer Simpson riding the bomb in The Simpsons (which also deserves nomination)). As perhaps the most recognizable piece of art to come out of the Cold War, "Dr. Strangelove" should be recognized as an American icon.

Scot

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Hollywood, California

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black-and-white sendup of nuclear politics is among the great comedies of all time, although its subject - the end of the world - could not be more serious. Adding to its uniqueness, the title role and two other pivotal parts were played by the same actor: Peter Sellers. He, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn made a film that truly is like no other. It is loaded with funny and compelling quotes ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War room!") and has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies (including a label reading "CRM114" in "Back to the Future" and Homer Simpson riding the bomb in The Simpsons (which also deserves nomination)). As perhaps the most recognizable piece of art to come out of the Cold War, "Dr. Strangelove" should be recognized as an American icon.

Scot

Citizen Kane

Los Angeles, CA

Do I really need to say. It's the gold standard of gold standards, the term people use when they say something is the best of its kind. It's also a innovative, technical marvel and a meticulously structured and intriguing film

Cole

@TheReelColeA

Citizen Kane

Los Angeles, CA

Do I really need to say why? It's the most influential film of all time (besides Birth of a Nation) and is the gold standard of all gold standards, as well as being an intriguing film and an innovative, technical marvel.

Cole

Debbie Harry

NYC

Debbie Harry of the rock band Blondie is an American Icon for many reasons ; she is an amazing singer that never sang about being a victim . Her fashion style and image influenced so many others like Madonna & Lady Gaga . Debbie is still creating music with Blondie & is better ever . As a liver performer she is outstanding to witness .

Robert Wooten

The Seagram Building

Park Avenue, NYC

Mies and his partner Phillip Johnson, with the patronage and fat wallet of the Bronfman family, created the first truly modern skyscraper in the world and set the patterns (both good and bad) for what is now the face of most American cities. How the building came to be (instead of a banal project by other architects) is a great story in itself.

Jeff

American Mustang

Western states

The mustang is not a movie, book, or building .. but it is inseperable from the iconic western landscape of beauty, apparent endless possibility, with a touch of menace. It also carries other mythologies such as the spiritual power of nature vs. the dominion of human beings, and the settlement of the west vs. the romance of the wandering nomad. And the passionate emotions it evokes remain current today as ranchers face off against environmentalists, and advocates for public lands and animal rights and welfare.

Vicky

Miami Vice

Miami, Florida

This show was a ground breaker - lst show to broadcast in stereor Had original music every week plus the works of many talents like Phil Collins. Used people with little or no acting experience like Bill Russell and Lee Iococca. Others were on there beforethey were big stars like Bruce Willis. Stories were interesting and varied Try looking at Prodigal Son - 2 part episode at the start of season 2 in 1985. A different look at Wall Street Greed and stupidity

Paul

Duane Allman

Macon, GA

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971 was one of the greatest guitar players of all time and possibly the greatest slide guitarist of all time! He was the co-founder (with his brother Gregg) and primary leader of the The Allman Brothers Band. The band was hugely successful and helped to create what is now called SOUTHERN ROCK. Duane also played session guitar for Derek and the Dominos, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett,Herbie Mann, King Curtis,Otis Rush, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie. Eric Clapton was also an admirer of Duane's guitar skills and they became good friends and often jam together. Sadly Duane died in a motorcycle accident in 1971 at the age of 24. But the Allman brother band lives on and so does Duane American Icon.

Charles

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Greensboro, Alabama

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" written by the writer James Agee with photographs by photographer Walker Evans was first published in 1941. The title is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us". The book grew (boy did it grow) from a simple assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the "Dust Bowl." Fortune magazine never published the article. How could it? Agee included himself as a character in the narrative. In fact describing himself and agonizing over his role as "spy." He considered this article as a piece of a larger work and wrote would be "an independent inquiry into certain normal predicaments of human divinity". The photographs along were masterpieces of stark images that captured the poverty of the families that Agee wrote about. A production of two great artists, a masterpiece, a failure, an American icon.

Charles

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Reruns

Cold War parody. In the 1950s and 60s, the Cold War was a significant theme that was in the consciousness of, well, everyone. As a balance against the angst, derived from images of entrapped East Europeans, the spread of communism, air raid drills in school, etc., American (and British) television, film and print artists created a body of cold war humor productions. At the pinnacle of creativity stood TAOR&B. Social commentary, humor- intellectual and simple, role reversal, satire, etc. You can stay up all night finding cultural references from Robert Conrad channelling Walter Winchell to a spoof of American's addiction to TV….

Geoff

The Zoo Story

New York City/West Berlin

I would like to see Studio 360 look into the impact of Edward Albee's play The Zoo Story had on society in the 1960's, in the start of Off-Broadway and on other playwrights. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness and dehumanization in the big city and it had a very interesting beginning in West Berlin.

Alex

National Lampoon's Animal House

Eugene, OR

Animal House was the first film from famed humor magazine National Lampoon. It consolidated several writers' collegiate experiences from different schools. It set the curve for the college/school movies and established a specific tone and voice in comedy that has influenced everything that followed. It was based on specifically American tropes and has become in many ways their definition.

Ryan

@popjunky

The Goonies

Astoria, OR

I can see the argument made that Goonies is too recent to have achieved Icon status, but it has had a pretty significant resonance with much of the last three or four generations of Americans (and possibly a few that came before).

It showed a loose group of young friends and their ever-so-slightly put-upon older siblings who had to work together to survive a very real threat that came as a result of their meddling in local legend. They inadvertently cross the tracks of a rather misfit but still dangerous clan of bank robbers reminiscent of Scrooge McDuck's oafish foils, the Beagle Boys, seasoned with a dash of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

It values imagination and adventure, putting a premium on recognizing how one is affected by the community around them. It is extremely localized to the Astoria area, which manages to strike a more universal chord when it approaches themes of family, of friendship, of loyalty, and of hope.

Ryan

@popjunky

Statue of Liberty

Between NY & NJ

It was the first thing many immigrants saw on coming to this country, and for many people, it still symbolizes some of the best things about this country. It's also a great work of art.

Joanne

Wainwright Building

St. Louis, Mo

The birth site of Modern architecture and the first skyscraper. Louis Sullivan freed the skin of buildings from their structure and began the discussion of how to start, carry and finish a tower, even how to democratize its inhabitants. his decorative style sought an uniquely American architecture, one lessons his pupil Frank Lloyd Wright would carry forth from this building, among other Kindergarten Chats.

Peter

@pmnphxaz

Eads Bridge

St. Louis, Mo

First bridge to cross the Mississippi below the confluence with the Mighty Mo. Designed by a Civil War ship captain James Eads, built by Andrew Carnegie. Discovered the bends while drilling the casons and first to use steel. East end was controlled by Chicago business magnets that wanted Chicago to be the center of the mid-west. Early rail & road bridge, now converted to Light Rail. Inspiration for the Arch.

Peter

@pmnphxaz

Lou Reed

New York City

It's a Perfect Day to listen to Satellite of Love, dream of Sweet Jane attending All Tomorrow's Parties before a Walk on the Wild Side on the Dirty Boulevard.

Peter

@pmnphxaz