Rowling is 2007’s best entertainer

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has topped the list of 2007’s top entertainers.

An US magazine has said that the 42-year-old author deserves an accolade for getting ‘people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet’.

Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and the cast of The Sopranos also made the grade in the entertainer’s list. The magazine’s editors had divided the list into five categories other than the entertainers’ category.

They were – prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians. George Clooney also made it to the list as a valedictorian, because, according to the magazine he has ‘deftly balanced box-office viability with personal responsibility’. Scottish actor Gerard Butler, and troubled singer Amy Winehouse were highlighted as among the most buzz-worthy in the list.

Matt Damon made it to the list of most popular, as did Carrie Underwood, Katherine Heigl, Johnny Depp and Kanye West. Tina Fey, creator and co-star of 30 Rock, was recognised as a class clown for her hilariously cringe-inducing portrayal of comedy-show producer Liz Lemon in the hit TV show.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com