The Snooki of the British aristocracy

"With her booze-sniffing SCRAM anklet foiling alcohol ingestion, Lindsay Lohan 'has turned to caffeine for her latest kicks', slamming eight cans of Red Bull a day and chainsmoking cigarettes, tweeting 'red bulls and waters and work – my new bffs hehe'. LiLo’s other BFF is British reality flameout Lady Victoria Hervey (LaVi?) who will appear on season 2 of tragic Tinsley Mortimer vehicle High Society, with whom LiLo sunbathed over Memorial Day weekend. Basically, LiLo’s new best friend is the Snooki of the British aristocracy, and Lindsay will soon be the J-Woww of Hollywood. (If she isn’t already?)"
(June 2, 2010, Maureen O'Connor, Defamer)

The Hugh Hefner of divorce porn

"The Hugh Hefner of divorce porn is Elizabeth Gilbert, of course. She helped popularize the recent surge. Her 2006 memoir, 'Eat, Pray, Love,' uses her painful divorce at 32 as a starting point for an exuberant yearlong 'search for everything' across Italy, India and Indonesia, including lavish meals, romantic affairs and a happy ending in the arms of an exotic man (also divorced)."
(Aug. 27, 2010, Bruce Feiler, The New York Times)

The A-Rod of afterschool specials

"Student Confidential is very much like an after school special…on steroids. In fact, it I would call it the A-Rod of after school specials in how the makers of the film are trying to covey these messages in such an in your face way."
(Jan. 22, 2010, Paracinema)

The Woody Allen of the solar system

"Is Pluto 'the Woody Allen of the solar system'?"
(Jan. 13, 2010, Jeff Baker, OregonLive.com)

The Katharine Hepburn of flowering plants

"I think of bacopa as something like the Katherine Hepburn of flowering plants--tough as nails and always darned good looking. That's my take on bacopa!"
(Sept. 11, 2008, Mike Skillin, Skillin's Garden Log)

The Fidel Castro of office furniture

"Reviled by workers, demonized by designers, disowned by its very creator, it still claims the largest share of office furniture sales--$3 billion or so a year--and has outlived every 'office of the future' meant to replace it. It is the Fidel Castro of office furniture."
(March 22, 2006, Julie Schlosser, Fortune)

The Jimmy McNulty of fruit

"It's astounding. Quinces are fleeting. Madness takes its toll. When you realise that you've just come to truly love the fruit and there's none to be found, not a damn skerrick, for a whole year. Like some kind of token gesture from Mother Nature to say sorry for ending summer, quinces appear with autumn, but unlike the terrible weather, their time with us is ridiculously brief. They're like the Jimmy McNulty of fruit, charming but unreliable, showing up at random intervals to steal your heart then run off again. I mean, I saw them at the supermarket and a week later there were no more. I didn't even see them at all at the vege markets this year, although I was out of town one weekend. So you have to live every fruit as if it's your last."
(March 27, 2010, Laura Vincent, Hungry and Frozen)