It's one of several parodies of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting, seen here:
The thing that gets me isn't that it's a parody. After all, this painting is easy to parody. Characters ranging from the Peanuts gang to Santa Claus and his reindeer have been in that diner.
No, what's always made me wonder is why are those for actors are always portrayed together? I've seen those four put together in art all over the place. Granted its usually in casual restaurants that like to hag kitsch on the walls, but still. It's always those four. Never with any other American icons. Do a quick Google Image Search for "dean bogey elvis marilyn" and see how many pictures you get of them dancing, eating, or playing pool.
It's not like they were really contemporaries, though. Dean and Bogart were both dead before either Monroe's or Elvis' careers really took off. None of them even performed with each other, as far as my research can tell. Granted, said research was limited to perusals of Google, IMDB, and Wikipedia, but even so you'd think there'd have been one film at least.
And yet, there they are, locked together as a group from here into eternity.
About the only thing I can figure is that they were all very popular in their eras, and yet, so were a lot of people. So were Sinatra, and Wayne, and Stewart, and Brando. So were Grable, and Mansfield, and Taylor, for that matter.
So why Bogie, Elvis, Marilyn, and Dean?
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