Let Them Entertain You

Entertainment Weekly has just revealed their picks for the top 25 "Entertainers of the Year" for 2007 in a special issue, now on stands and online.

Instead of ranking their selections from one to 25 like they have always done, this year's rundown lumps them into categories, like some kind of high school yearbook. So we have the popular kids (Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Katherine Heigl), the class clowns (led by Ugly Betty's Vanessa Williams) and the freshmen (Zac Efron, Shia LaBeouf). The "upper classmen" are represented by the likes of such pretty people as George Clooney and Angelina Jolie, with 300's Gerard Butler in the kind-of-redundant "most buzzed about" section (wouldn't all 25 be the "most buzzed about", or they wouldn't be on the list in the first place ...?)

Following in the footsteps of Bart Simpson, Rosie O'Donnell and Ricky Martin (yeah, remember that?) is this year's "Entertainer of the Year", Harry Potter creator and Albus Dumbledore outer J.K. Rowling. Let's see how long it takes EW to knock her down a peg or two like they've done every one of their former headliners.

Links via EW.com.