Forbes Celebrity 100

This list has to be, quite possibly, the biggest kiss of death for any major actor. The reason is that this list does not just measure how much you actually earned, if it did that then one could understand Forbes printing it, but it also measures how much publicity you got.

What the hell has that got to do with anything related to the creative field?

Some would, could and probably do argue that:
1. This is a Celebrity list and that requires nothing more than earning money from exposure.
2. Everyone in the entertainment field is into it for exposure.

I will not argue with the former point but will never agree with the latter. The problem is that people, now more than ever, confuse a Paris Hilton with a Jennifer Aniston. A Paris Hilton is a celebrity who hasn’t done anything other than pose, I obviously am discounting her doing that idiot in her porno. A Jennifer Aniston is a celebrity who makes movies and probably doesn’t want people capturing her every move.

To mix these two groups is supremely idiotic and all evidence shows that this world is supremely idiotic, which brings me to the reason for this post.

Tom Cruise (TC) is my boy. He is also a serious actor. Yes he has gone off the rails in the last two years but that doesn’t discount the fact that he is a serious actor, check out Collateral for evidence. So, his being on top of a list that measures mostly exposure and not skill is not sitting too well with me. Of course the fact that Forbes made this stupid list ain’t sitting too well with me either. Nor is that nacho I ate last night … but that is another post.