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Forbes Celebrity 100
Hollywood pays Jim Carrey $20 million a pop to mug in movies. Baseball pitching ace Kevin Brown gets $15 million a year for his split-fingered fastball. Colin Powell pulls in $80,000 for a one-hour speech. Those are the going rates for today's top celebrities. Such is the world of stars and money. The 100 are chosen and ranked according to their income and the media buzz they generate. The income figure is what the celebrity earned last year; the buzz factor--a blend of their prominence on the web, on magazine covers, on radio and television, and in newspapers--is, in a way, a measure of future earning power. Check the Forbes site for a complete review of the methods involved in compiling the Forbes Celebrity 100.
Power Rank Name Money Rank Earnings Web Hits Magazine Covers TV and Radio Hits 1 Julia Roberts 12 /$50m. 41,131 9,978 7 105 2 George Lucas 1 /$400m. 52,199 10,195 1 82 3 Oprah Winfrey 2 /$150m. 26,150 9,575 3 103 4 Tom Hanks 5/ $71.5m. 43,278 10,141 1 126 5 Michael Jordan 23 /$40m. 263,572 38,888 3 267 6 Rolling Stones 11 /$50m. 70,999 18,158 0 130 7 Tiger Woods 17 /$47m. 85,137 32,974 2 71 8 Backstreet Boys 8 /$60m. 49,810 10,157 2 40 9 Cher 25 /$40m. 93,670 12,987 3 130 10 Steven Spielberg 9/ $60m. 29,564 14,645 0 94
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