Each year Entertainment Weekly names the year’s top entertainers. This year’s list includes entertainers such as Tina Fey, the Jonas Brothers, and Facebook (yes, Facebook).
Taking the title of this year’s Entertainer of the Year is an actor who engineered one of the coolest comebacks ever – Robert Downey Jr..
How did Robert Downey Jr. make the top of this year’s list?
The protest may have worked. Early reports of Tropic Thunder opened to $7.5 million. To make a comparison, that’s 40% of what Pineapple Express made in its Wednesday debut last week.
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Robert Downey Jr. is trading Iron Man’s metal suit for Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker hat, reports the A.P.
Downey is following his action blockbuster “Iron Man” with the title role in “Sherlock Holmes,” a mystery drama based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective and an upcoming comic-book about Holmes by Lionel Wigram, one of the movie’s producers.
Poor babies!
Top Newssweek staffers are “said to be envious of their rivals at Time over the annual Time 100 celeb-fest, which draws the world’s biggest names for an evening of black-tie admiration,” according to Page Six.
Last week’s Time event drew Robert Downey Jr, John McCain, Mariah Carey and others.
“It’s not fair,” complained one mag vet to Page Six. “Time butters up all these bigwigs and then gets access.”
Robert Downey’s Jr.’s flick grossed more than 201 million dollars worldwide ($104.3 million domestically and $96.7 million overseas.)
Big weekend and big comeback for Robert Downy Jr.
Congrats!
Patrick Dempsey’s Made of Honor came in a far second at $15.5 million.
Will you see it?
Matthew Klam, GQ’s correspondent who interviewed Robert Downey Jr., for this cover story got a little more than he bargained for when he challenged him to Wing Chun kung fu.
“So when I tried to punch him, he [Downey Jr.] does what he’s learned to do. I don’t actually even remember getting punched in the face. It’s Downey who notices.
“Hey, you’re bleeding,” he says. He asks if I want ice.
And then Downy looks at my wound again. “Feels good,” he says. “Doesn’t it.”"
For the complete interview, click here.
