Fame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon: with 1 famon = 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency. Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the Read more…
Fame levels of various actors and actresses In a previous post I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The Ngram tool produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up Read more…
Let’s see whether there are other popular icons of the golden Hollywood era, listed by the American Film Institute, that can break the fame level attained by Monroe and Wayne. Let’s also see how these compare to modern time actors and actresses. Six iconic actresses and actors Read more…
In recent years, Willis and Stallone enjoy a fame of about 10 famons whereas Schwarzenegger’s fame reaches 25 famons (see previous post). But how do these figures compare to those of other people? In a previous post I compared their fame to those of Seagal and Van Damme. Now let’s see Read more…
Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are all iconic action heroes for the 1980s and 1990s. Each one has its own idiosyncrasy and personal style of acting. Yet, all three have contributed some of the best action movies ever made, which are nowadays considered classic. In the last decades, Read more…
The Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever printed; Lin et al. 2012) relative to all remaining phrases Read more…