How To Become An Icon Before Age 30

Lessons from Anne Hathaway:

1. Be a Disney princess before age 18. ("The Princess Diaries")

2. Be a big-haired bitchy jilted wife of a closeted, tortured gay man who dies tragically. ("Brokeback Mountain")

3. Be the self-loathing "smart fat girl" who works as a slave for a fashion magazine editrix-dominatrix. ("The Devil Wears Prada")

4. Be model-gorgeous.

5. Be sweet.

6. Be smart.

7. Give this speech about your gay brother at an HRC event: