I'm no good at these things

But I'm going to give The Namesake Series a whirl anyway. Brendan proposes:

In This is Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins shows Marty DiBergi a tape from the "Namesakes" series, in which celebrities read works by authors with the same last name. For example, Denham Elliott reads T.S. Eliot and Dr. J reads the collected works of Washington Irving.

What if you ran an "intro to theory and pop culture" course along similar lines? Each unit features a theorist discussed in class and related to a namesake in pop culture [. . .]

Here's my attempt:

• Habermas on Kate Moss
• Chaim Perelman on Rhea Perlman
• I.A. Richards on Mary Richards
• Raymond Williams on Venus Williams
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Kyra Sedgwick
• Laura Mulvey on "Mulva"
• Homi Bhabha on Homey the Clown
• Stuart Hall on The Wall
• Kenneth Burke on Delta Burke

More later.