100 Top Celebrities

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Oprah Winfrey

#03

America's richest African-American continues to expand her multimedia empire. Her production of Broadway's "The Color Purple" garnered 11 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. (It went on to win one, for Best Musical Actress.) She also is developing a syndicated talk show for popular Food Network star Rachael Ray, in addition to a weekly radio program, "Oprah & Friends," for digital satellite broadcaster XM. And listen closely for Oprah's voice as Gussy, the sage mother goose, in the animated version of "Charlotte's Web," slated for release this Christmas. Winfrey suffered rare criticism last year when her Book Club pick, "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey, was revealed to have been fabricated. (She castigated the discredited author on her program later that month.)


Pay $225 million
Power Rank 3
2005 Rank: 1

Rank Name Pay ($mil) E-Score Top Attribute Secondary Attribute
3 Oprah Winfrey 225 25 Intelligent Confident

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Rolling Stones

#02

Last year's A Bigger Bang tour grossed $162 million by the end of 2005, besting the band's prior record of $120 million grossed from 1994's Voodoo Lounge tour. In February, the band appeared in Rio before an estimated 1.5 million fans, its largest audience ever. Three months later the Stones performed for the first time in China, where government officials banned the group from playing provocative classics like "Brown Sugar" and "Beast of Burden." But the biggest shocker came in May when guitarist Keith Richards fell from a tree while on vacation in Fiji, prompting emergency brain surgery. But the show will go on: new tour dates for the Stones' Bigger Bang tour already have been announced.


Pay $90 million
Power Rank 2
2005 Rank: NR

Rank Name Pay ($mil) E-Score Top Attribute Secondary Attribute
2 Rolling Stones 90 NA NA NA

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Tom Cruise

#01

Cruise returns to the No. 1 position on the Forbes Power 100, a post he held five years ago, thanks to a combination of his awesome earnings from "War of the Worlds" and the media onslaught following his pairing with actress Katie Holmes. He also generated tons of ink with his couch-jumping antics on "Oprah," his outspoken criticism of the pharmaceutical industry and, of course, his new baby, Suri. Love him or hate him, Cruise is Hollywood's most bankable actor.

Pay $67 million
Power Rank 1
2005 Rank: 10


Rank Name Pay ($mil) E-Score Top Attribute Secondary Attribute
1 Tom Cruise 67 56 Talented Over-Exposed

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[IQ]

I am not going to vote for the new one lol