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Lifestyles & Trends: Obama As Pop Culture Icon?

Published January 30, 2009 at 8:00 AM CST
Fans wearing US President Barack Obama's portrait and holding a sign reading 'Barack to the future' attend the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 22, 2009.
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Fans wearing US President Barack Obama's portrait and holding a sign reading 'Barack to the future' attend the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 22, 2009.

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly announces on the cover that "Obama Is Changing Pop Culture Forever." Newsweek correspondent and News & Notes co-host, Allison Samuels, sat down with Sean Smith, the Los Angeles Bureau Chief of Entertainment Weekly, for a conversation about how he thinks this change is coming.

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