HILO Heroes, April

By: HILOBROW
April 7, 2009

Happy birthday to some of our high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes.

All hilo birthdays.

1. Abraham Maslow (HI: life’s work); Jimmy Cliff (LO: life’s work); Samuel R. Delany (HILO: life’s work); Method Man (LO: life’s work)
2. Ron “Horshack” Palillo (LO: Welcome Back, Kotter); Buddy Ebsen (LO: The Beverly Hillbillies); Max Ernst (HILO: life’s work); Camille Paglia (HILO: life’s work); Émile Zola (HILO? a test case)
3. Jennie Garth (LO: Beverly Hills, 90210); Eddie Murphy (LO: life’s work); Jane Goodall (HI: life’s work); Marlon Brando (HILO?: a test case)
4. Muddy Waters (LO: life’s work); Marguerite Duras (HI: life’s work); Comte de Lautréamont (HILO: Les Chants de Maldoror); Andrei Tarkovsky (HILO: life’s work)
5. Agnetha Fältskog (LO: ABBA); Frank Gorshin (LO: life’s work); Roger Corman (LO: life’s work); Bette Davis (LO: life’s work); Spencer Tracy (LO: life’s work); Thomas Hobbes (HI: life’s work)
6. Paul Rudd (LO: life’s work), Merle Haggard (LO: life’s work)
7. Jackie Chan (LO: life’s work); James Garner (LO: life’s work); Billie Holiday (LO: life’s work); Donald Barthelme (HILO: life’s work)

8. Shecky Greene (LO: life’s work); John Fante (HILO: life’s work); Vivienne Westwood (HILO: life’s work); Edmund Husserl (HI: life’s work)
9. Hugh Hefner (LO: life’s work); Charles Baudelaire (HILO: life’s work); Valerie Solanas (HILO: life’s work)
10. Max Von Sydow (HILO: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Exorcist, Flash Gordon, Conan the Barbarian, Strange Brew)
11. Louise Lasser (HILO: Bananas, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)
12. Shannen Doherty (LO: life’s work); Herbie Hancock (HILO: life’s work); Tiny Tim (LO: life’s work); David Letterman (HILO?: test case)
13. Don Adams (LO: life’s work); Samuel Beckett (HILO: life’s work); Jacques Lacan (HI: life’s work)

14. Sarah Michelle Gellar (LO: life’s work); Loretta Lynn (LO: life’s work); Daniel Clowes (HILO: life’s work); Fredric Jameson (HI: life’s work)
15. Seth Rogen (LO, but — uh-oh — heading towards MIDDLE: life’s work); Da Vinci (HILO: life’s work)
16. Merce Cunningham (HI: life’s work); Charlie Chaplin (HILO?: another test case); Tristan Tzara (HILO: life’s work)
17. Posh Spice (LO: life’s work)
18. Conan O’Brien (HILO?: test case); Kathy Acker (HILO: life’s work)
19. Tim Curry (HILO: Rocky Horror Picture Show)

20. Harold Lloyd (LO: life’s work); Joan Miró (HILO: life’s work)
21. Iggy Pop (LO, despite Jarmusch-ification: life’s work)
22. Aaron Spelling (LO: life’s work), Eddie Albert (LO: life’s work); Henry Fielding (HILO?: test case); John Waters (HILO: life’s work); Immanuel Kant (HI: life’s work)
23. Lee Majors (LO: life’s work); Roy Orbison (LO: life’s work); Vladimir Nabokov (HILO: life’s work); Shakespeare (HILO: life’s work); J.P. Donleavy (HILO: life’s work); George Steiner (HI: life’s work)
24. Willem de Kooning (HI: life’s work)
25. Björn Ulvaeus (LO: ABBA); Ella Fitzgerald (LO: life’s work)

26. Carol Burnett (LO: life’s work); Wittgenstein (HI: life’s work); Marcus Aurelius (HILO: life’s work)
27. Ace Frehley (LO: life’s work); Jack Klugman (LO: The Odd Couple)
28. Ann-Margret (LO: life’s work), Terry Pratchett (LO: life’s work)
29. Jerry Seinfeld (LO: Seinfeld); Hasil Adkins (LO: life’s work)
30. Willie Nelson (LO: life’s work); Jaroslav Hašek (HILO: The Good Soldier Švejk); Al Lewis (LO: life’s work); Larry Niven (LO: life’s work); Lars von Trier (HILO?: test case)