The silliness of celebrity power lists never fails to astound
And so to Forbes's Celebrity Power List, the annual exercise in which the magazine underscores its credentials as a serious publication by encouraging some chimps to shuffle round a few pictures of celebrities in return for bananas and portfolio advice.
Climbing three places to No 1, Lady Gaga knocks Oprah from her perch, while recovering cocktail waitress addict Tiger Woods is judged the sixth most powerful celebrity in the world. Whether he'll use those powers to win a tournament or a new sponsor at any point in the future, only time will show.
Even by the standards of celebrity power lists, the Forbes one is so powerfully silly that it forces an urgent reordering of silly celebrity power lists. It doesn't displace GQ's 2001 effort, which judged David Beckham more powerful than Rupert Murdoch, but leapfrogs a 2008 list of Hollywood's most powerful pets (Miley Cyrus's dogs came first). Still at No 1, however, is Details magazine's 2007 classic, which named the most powerful men on the planet under the age of 45. The idiocies are too numerous to rehash in full, but in light of recent events, the decision to place Kevin Federline ? Britney Spears's unemployed ex-husband ? at No 7, a full 14 places above Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, looks ever more inspired. Is K-Fed the Arab Spring's best hope? Perhaps someone at Details would care to get in touch.
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