Forbes has an amazing list of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities. And it includes such luminaries as:
1. Jennifer Lopez
3. Justin Bieber
6. Britney Spears
7. Kim Kardashian, and
12. Tiger Woods
So these are powerful people. Hmm.
Way down at the bottom at number 100 is Adriana Lima. Who? Article says she's a super model.
How in the world does someone quantify power among celebrities? They say they talked to industry insiders, agents, lawyers, producers and other experts to come up with an estimate of how much they earned in the previous 12 months. Then they used Google, Factiva, Lexis/Nexis, magazines covers, Facebook and Twitter to compile numbers which are used to compute a celebrity's power and rank.
All fun and games, and it's really meaningless if we are trying to correlate power, as they define it, with influence. But it is interesting to note that Larry the cable guy at 91 beat out Tina Fey at 93. Tina Fey probably did more than any other one person in 2008 to create a negative image of Sarah Palin. So it's reassuring that she's so far down on the list. Karma, maybe.
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