Forbes just compiled their yearly list of the world’s richest people, and it contains some pretty non-shocking revelations: Steven Spielberg (pictured, left) and George Lucas (pictured) are each worth approximately eighteen quadrillion dollars. (The actual number is $3 billion, but once you get into Scrooge-McDuck-swimming-in-gold-coins territory, we stop counting.) Also very, very wealthy: Oprah ($2.4 billion). No duh, Forbes. That’s like telling us that us that Angelina Jolie is, objectively speaking, rather pleasant-looking.
What’s actually surprising is the fact that these media moguls’ fortunes don’t even put them in the top 30 richest people in the world. Oh, wait. Did I say 30? I meant THREE HUNDRED. Spielberg and Lucas are tied for No. 316, while Winfrey lands at a humiliating 400th place. If this were the Kentucky Derby, she would’ve come in just behind the guy riding Eeyore. For shame, O. The list’s actual toppers? Mexican money magnet Carlos Slim Helu ($53.5 billion) and some dorky-sounding dude named William Gates III ($53 billion).
Check out the full list and let us know what else surprised you.
Good for them.
Can you two start making good movies again? Thanks.
DO NOT ENCOURAGE LUCAS to make more movies – I have a sick feeling he will “re-master” the original trilogy in 3D.
Robert Pattinson’s character dies on 9/11 in the end of “Remember Me”
Agree. Also isn’t spelled “magnate”, not “magnet”? What kind of morons work at EW?
Spielberg never stopped making good movies. Oh he has, like every mortal who has ever lived, made mistakes etc, but his body of work is outstanding in both pure entertainment and quality terms.
Ohhhh yes he did. His last great movie was from 2002, and that was the slight comedy of “Catche Me If You Can”. And 50% of its goodness was the musical score.
You can only fall back on your “medium close up shot of people looking at something behind the camera” so many times before it’s just an old trick. He has nothing innovative to say cinematically any more.
Terry is a moron, clearly not qualified to speak at any valid, critical level about film. Munich was celebrated as a brave, controversial epic when it was released, and it was generally hailed as one of the best films of the year. That came out after Catch me if you Can (a film that even Spielberg says was whimsical escapism. This guy claims that Spielberg must not know his own nworks, because he claims it’s a great work. LMAO.
Unbelievable. Go back to your cubicle, Terry
Sorry to be pedantic but I found this one way humorous… it’s:
“Mexican money >magnatemagnet<."
Funny stuff tho.
(I assume this will be corrected and then this post will make no sense… oh well, I am having fun)
I see no problem with the story:
He’s a “Mexican money magnet” – that means the man attracts money simply by standing there. That’s why he’s so rich. Duh!
400th place isn’t bad when there are 6 billion racers.
Yeah – but that $53 billion isn’t liquid.
Surely it would only cost a few thousand for George to get rid of his neck waddle.
Oddly, he must not be vain.
Funniest line I’ve read all week:
“If this were the Kentucky Derby, she would’ve come in just behind the guy riding Eeyore.”
Kudos, Adam! Funny enough to let your magnet/magnate error slide.
Rupert Murdoch at only #117? I would have thought he’d be much higher.
Ok…how exactly is this “breaking news”?
Naptime.
What no Bernie Madoff? …too soon?
There are people on that list younger than me. It’s official. I’m pathetic.