There are some celebrity friendships that seem perfectly natural: Kanye and Jay-Z, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. And then there are the pairs who you’d never put in the same room — until they end up there, splitting a bottle of wine. That’s what happened with the Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Bright Lights, Big City author Jay McInerney at downtown Manhattan spot Acme last week, and they’re not alone. Apparently, celebrity makes for strange bedfellows; click through for photos of some of the most unlikely cross-genre pairings, from a country music queen and a famed street artist to two of the most powerful ladies in the entire world.
Dolly Parton and Keith Haring
Photo credit: Andy Warhol via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Neal Stephenson, Neil Armstrong, and Neil Gaiman
Photo via Neil Gaiman’s Journal
Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, Toronto, 1968. Photo via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg
Photo credit: Len Stackler
RZA and Yoko Ono
Photo credit: Lester Cohen
Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry
Photo via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Bear Grylls and Jake Gyllenhaal
Anthony Kiedis, David Bowie, and Johnny Depp
Photo via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor
Photo credit: Terry O’Neill
Pee-wee Herman and Cyndi Lauper
Carlos Santana and John McEnroe
Photo credit: Lynn Goldsmith
Paul Simon and Lorne Michaels
Mr. T and Louis CK
RuPaul and Nirvana
Photo credit: Kevin Mazur via MTV
Betty White and Slash
Colonel Sanders and Alice Cooper
Jimmy Page and William S. Burroughs
Photo via Arthur Magazine
Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton
Photo via BuzzFeed