“Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. tops Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Entertainers of the Year 2008. The movie star has beaten comedienne and writer Tina Fey in the annual list.
According to the EW, Downey Jr. has topped the list because of a series of clever choices he made. After his rehab and jail stints years ago, the actor has finally pulled himself together and establish himself as a movie star.
First is the top grossing superhero flick, “Iron Man,” then he followed that one with a comedy with Ben Stiller and Jack Black in “Tropic Thunder,” which also became a box office hit. Next stop for this once troubled actor is the already Oscar-buzzed film “The Soloist” with Jamie Foxx and “Sherlock Holmes” from Guy Ritchie.
On the second spot is ubiquitous Fey, who has been a TV fixture recently with her Sarah Palin impersonation. As per the website, she has embodied that “all-too-rare brainy/funny/sexy trifecta” since hosting “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update segment.
Also making the list are U.K. band Coldplay and singer Leona Lewis, and “Gossip Girls” Leighton Meester and Blake Lively.
EW’s Top 25 Entertainers of the Year:
1. Robert Downey Jr.
2. Tina Fey
3. The Cast and Crew of “The Dark Knight”
4. The Gossip Girls - Blake Lively and Leighton Meester
5. Stephenie Meyer
6. Lil Wayne
7. Rock Band
8. The Women of “Sex and the City”
9. The Jonas Brothers
10. The Talking Heads - Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, the women of “The View,” Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Campbell Brown, and Stephen Colbert
11. Meryl Streep
12. The stars of Bravo - Vicki Gunvalson, Jeff Lewis, Zoila Chavez, Rachel Zoe, Tim Gunn, NeNe Leakes, Jill Zarin, Tom Coliucchio, and Padma Lakshmi
13. James Franco
14. “Wall-E”
15. Coldplay
16. Elizabeth Banks
17. Yunjin Kim & Daniel Dae Kim from “Lost”
18. Kid Rock
19. Jon Hamm
20. Facebook
21. Katy Perry
22. Richard Jenkins
23. Michael Phelps
24. Leona Lewis
25. Neil Patrick Harris
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