Social Register
However, while inclusion in the "Social Register" was once so important for members of Society that, according to Brooke Astor, "if someone wasn't listed, you just didn't know them", by the late 1990s its influence had seriously waned. In 2002, novelist Tom Wolfe said that he no longer heard regular reference to the "Social Register" and opined that the "world of social luster has been so overshadowed by celebrities that it doesn’t have any kick anymore".