Top earners in Hollywood in 2010

Vanity Fair has put together 2010's top 40 earning Hollywood players. Here's the top 3:

1. James Cameron – $257 million
$248 million: Avatar (back-end for writing, producing, and directing, based on 2010 worldwide box-office gross of $1.95 billion, and share of DVD and pay-television revenue; excludes $50 million earned in 2009)
$5 million: Avatar (share of toy licensing, other revenue)
$4 million: Older film revenue (e.g., back-end and royalties from earlier projects, other payments)

2. Johnny Depp – $100 million
$40 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for starring in Tim Burton film, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion)
$35 million: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (up-front money for starring in next installment of Jerry Bruckheimer’s waterlogged but ludicrously profitable franchise)
$20 million: The Tourist (fee for co-starring in one of the year’s bigger flops alongside Angelina Jolie)
$5 million: Older film revenue

3. Steven Spielberg – $80 million
$50 million: Universal-theme-park royalties and consulting fees
$20 million: War Horse (fee for directing and producing upcoming World War I drama)
$10 million: Older film revenue

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Rémi Gailllard: Top 10 sports pranks

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Top funniest 30 Rock characters

34 characters from 30 Rock get ranked from the funniest to the least funny.

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Top 100 grossing movie locations

From Very Small Array: a chart showing the top 100 grossing motion pictures of all time, by their location. You figure out the titles.


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Top 25 Gawker passwords

You may have heard of the great Gawker hack of 2010. A group of hackers broke into the site's database this Saturday, leaking over 1,2 million passwords. Here's the top 25:

Compare: Top 10 RockYou passwords exposed.

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Top 10 faceplants of 2010

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Top 15 US cities by penis size

Condomania conducted a study using 27,000 men and came up with these results:


Also, the top of the states:

1. New Hampshire
2. Oregon
3. New York
4. Indiana
5. Arizona
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46. West Virginia
47. Alaska
48. Iowa
49. Utah
50. Wyoming

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Idiots of the Week: Winners, November 19 2008

Top Idiots Of The Week
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
November 19, 2008

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Statue-tory Rape?

And The Winner Is:



In a historic first, the winner of this week's Top Idiot Award is an animal. In a clear case of statue-tory rape, this moose obviously confused life and art. He got away with this indiscretion after issuing a public apology and agreeing to attend sensitivity training. Personally, I think he got off easy because he was a FOB. (friend of Bill:)

Runner-Up:

13 year-old German schoolboy, Dennis Bueller comes in a close second. He learned the hard way that one should never play with a cigarette ligher on the toilet - especially after spraying the room with air freshener.

Honorable Mention:

A husband and wife had a suicide pact. The husband backed out. His wife didn't. Her body was then left hanging in their house for eight weeks. I guess he just got used to her hanging around.

Two drunk drivers crashed into each other. Who says there's no justice?

PETA makes our list once again. They're planning to stage a nude protest to discourage locals from attending an upcoming Ringling Brothers Circus show at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center. Hey, it would discourage me...

Caution: Idiots are not just stupid - they're dangerous too. A father was drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his gun. Oops, he accidentaly shot to death his 6 year-old daughter.



Most Idiotic Statements:

Chris Matthews on Obama: "You can't make fun of this guy. He's clean as a whistle"

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger actually blamed California's wildfires on global warming. Huh?

NBC's Meredith Viera helped kick off Green Week by stating that "oceans could rise by 200 feet."

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith actually called suggestions of bias towards Obama in the mainstream media "preposterous". Ah, Shep...




Group Idiots:

First place, hands down, goes to the idiotic bureaucrats in Attleboro, Mass. In a letter they paid 42 cents to mail, city officials warned they'll place a lien on a blind 74-year-old's house unless she coughs up a penny by Dec. 10. Aargh.

Tied for first place are these 12 Obama voters. They actually allowed themselves to be videotaped after the election. Their scary, absolute ignorance of our political system is now captured for all eternity.

In a close second are the 7 out of 10 people who actually believe Obama can fix the economy.

Honorable Mention:

More bureaucrats, this time in England: School bureaucrats decided that children as young as five will now have the legal right to tell teachers how they should be taught and disciplined for bad behavior.

Speaking of schools: School officials in a tiny Vermont elementary school win honorable mention. They have blocked the pledge of allegiance from classrooms amid concerns that it holds nonparticipating children up to scorn.

So many idiots, so little space.

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by Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com



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Idiot of the Week Awards: Winners, October 5 2008 Edition

Top Idiots Of The Week Awards
Week of October 5 2008
Right Bias.com

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We have a clear winner in this week's awards. By far, the biggest idiot of the week has to be:

1. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who was caught on video accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of executing 5,000 prisoners Chinese-style and dumping their bodies in a Louisiana swamp. Maybe she's just off her meds.

2. Second place has to go to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She gave a five minute speech tearing into Republicans right before a crucial vote on the government bailout bill, where, it turns out, she could have used their votes. She lost. Moral of the story: Don't gloat before you vote.

3. Third place goes to Harvard University. They held a ceremony Thursday awarding researchers for studying fertility of exotic dancers, plant dignity, enhanced potato chip crunch, flea jumping abilities and spermicidal uses for Coca-Cola. I wonder what jobs are available with those kind of qualifications.

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Rep. Barney Frank makes this week's list for going on the O'Reilly Factor to defend the indefensible. He got a very public spanking. We can't figure out if it was idiocy or just plain old hubris.

* A Colorado teen hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend.

* This poor idiot shot himself after being denied sex by his girlfriend. He was charged with threatening violence and firing a weapon in an occupied dwelling. He is being held on $100,000 bail.

* An amateur chef died the day after eating a "superhot" chilli in a bet with his friend over who could make the hottest dish.

* Luke Schreder thought a police officer looked like he just "needed a hug" so he ran up to him and stuck out his arms. He was arrested for assault on a peace officer, public intoxication and interference with official acts. When he gets out, he should consider going into politics.

* Two armed robbers hijacked a security van with $1.3 million inside but were forced to abandon more than half the cash because their small getaway car could not carry it all.


ECO-IDIOTS:

1. First place goes to authors of a new report which states: 'People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid runaway climate change.'

2. Second place winner is a fellow who believes this junk. For the past nine months, Dave Chameides has been filling his basement with every single thing he would ordinarily recycle or toss into the trash. He's doing this in order to reduce his carbon footprint and save the world. I know I'll be sleeping easier tonight.

3. Polar bears will also be able to sleep easier thanks to the brave scientists in California who are actually testing the hearing of polar bears to try to find out whether the noises associated with melting Arctic ice could affect their ability to survive.

HONORABLE MENTION:

How could we have eco-idiots awards without mentioning Father Earth algore? Al Gore said in San Jose on Saturday that the climate crisis deserves the same type of attention and money from Washington that the financial meltdown is getting. The scary thing is, this man almost became president. Whoa baby!

From the Just Plain Nasty files:

Hustler founder, Larry Flynt has made an X-rated movie using an adult-film actress who is a dead ringer for Sarah Palin.

In an effort to leave you with a little hope for the future, we feel we should mention the following:

Alan Fishman, named CEO of Washington Mutual just 18 days before federal regulators seized it, will not accept a multimillion-dollar severance payment even if he is entitled to it, a spokesman representing him said Wednesday. Some would consider him an idiot. We don't.


by Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com


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