Tom Cruise is No. 1 on Forbes magazine’s annual Celebrity 100 Power List, which ranks the stars of showbiz and sports according to earnings and buzz.
Cruise is the only celebrity to top the list twice, Forbes editor Lea Goldman told the Associated Press. The Mission: Impossible III star also ranked No. 1 in 2001, the same year he divorced Nicole Kidman.
“He’s one of the few guaranteed bankable stars,” Goldman said. “No one in Hollywood can negotiate the kind of salary he gets.”
With an estimated income of $67 million last year, Cruise wasn’t the top earner, but his couch-hopping antics on The Oprah Winfrey Show, his dismissive comments about Brooke Shields’s postpartum depression and his whirlwind romance with Katie Holmes worked to his advantage in the past 12 months. Last year he was ranked 10th.
Perennial Forbes favorite Oprah Winfrey, who claimed the No. 1 spot last year, fell to No. 3 on the new list, despite her estimated $225 million earnings.
Winfrey’s windfall pales next to No. 6-ranked Steven Spielberg’s $332 million, which made the director-producer the year’s highest-paid celebrity.
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Cruise is the only celebrity to top the list twice, Forbes editor Lea Goldman told the Associated Press. The Mission: Impossible III star also ranked No. 1 in 2001, the same year he divorced Nicole Kidman.
“He’s one of the few guaranteed bankable stars,” Goldman said. “No one in Hollywood can negotiate the kind of salary he gets.”
With an estimated income of $67 million last year, Cruise wasn’t the top earner, but his couch-hopping antics on The Oprah Winfrey Show, his dismissive comments about Brooke Shields’s postpartum depression and his whirlwind romance with Katie Holmes worked to his advantage in the past 12 months. Last year he was ranked 10th.
Perennial Forbes favorite Oprah Winfrey, who claimed the No. 1 spot last year, fell to No. 3 on the new list, despite her estimated $225 million earnings.
Winfrey’s windfall pales next to No. 6-ranked Steven Spielberg’s $332 million, which made the director-producer the year’s highest-paid celebrity.
More at: http://www.celebspin.com/tom-cruise-named-most-powerful-star/
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