(Forbes)-Hollywood pays Jim Carrey $20 million a pop to mug in movies. Baseball pitching ace Kevin Brown gets $15 million a year for his split-fingered fastball. Colin Powell pulls in $80,000 for a one-hour speech. Those are the going rates for today's top celebrities. Such is the world of stars and money. The 100 are chosen and ranked according to their income and the media buzz they generate. The income figure is what the celebrity earned last year; the buzz factor--a blend of their prominence on the web, on magazine covers, on radio and television, and in newspapers--is, in a way, a measure of future earning power. See the rankings...
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