Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
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Monday, June 9, 2014







Rosie Millard

Monday 9 June 2014

Angelina Jolie has the power to change the world

Some might say she's just another Hollywood superstar, but Jolie knows how to use her celebrity to fight injustice around the world



More than 300 senior government ministers from around the globe have arrived in London for the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence, which starts today and goes on for three days at the ExCel centre.
This important and serious event is being headed, quite understandably, by the Foreign Secretary William Hague. Alongside the film star Angelina Jolie. Which is also understandable.

Why, people will carp. She’s not a politician. Is Jolie being given centre stage because she is famous, and beautiful, and has an equally famous and beautiful husband, people will carp.

Well, yes, partially. And is it also because has had a double mastectomy, and has adopted a whole bunch of children, and has given them crazy names?

And is it because she goes on red carpets with, ooh, split skirts, and wears high heels and breathes the privileged hyper-oxygenated air of a full-on, 100 per cent celebrity? Yes, it is. Get over it.

Like it or not, we have a compulsive urge to look at the famous and beautiful. We simply cannot help it. It is as ingrained in our nature as it is to coo over a baby. And the presence of Jolie at this crucial event, which aims to unpick the ruinous appendage of sexual violence in conflict zones, will make the unpleasant topic front-page news.

We know there’s every likelihood that the beautiful face of Angelina Jolie will be on the front of most newspapers, tabloid and broadsheet, in the next few days. With those eyes and those cheekbones and that aristocratic Hollywood bearing? Are you kidding?

Is this a good thing? Undoubtedly. For Jolie is not only beautiful, she is smart. She knows that she will be followed by the paparazzi anyway. Why not use that power in order to advertise something more worthwhile than, say, a Prada bag? Or the opening of a movie?

This is not to say that Prada and cinema – or even the Duchess of Cambridge’s beloved nude LK Bennett shoes - are mindless commodities per se. They are not.

But shoes and bags and even Alexander McQueen coats are not issues which deserve front-page attention, for their existence does not destroy lives and communities.

Jolie and Hague wish to create “irreversible momentum” against rape in conflict, and practical action to help those who are suffering it. Good for them. Good for Hague to see that pulling together with somebody of Jolie’s wattage is a smart move, and good for Jolie to have chosen to publicise this important cause.






(Reuters) - The kidnapping of 200 Nigerian girls and several recent horrific murders of women is expected to raise pressure on the world community to take concrete action to punish those responsible for sexual violence at a global summit in London this week.

Invited by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague, government ministers, military and judicial leaders and aid workers from about 150 nations will join the first global summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

The June 10-13 summit follows a run of shocking cases of violence against women including the kidnap of schoolgirls by Islamist Boko Haram, the stoning to death of a pregnant woman in Pakistan in a so-called "honour killing", and the gang-rape and murder of two Indian teenagers who were hanged from a tree.

Hague said too often those who committed these crimes never faced justice and the summit would agree the first international protocol on how to document and investigate sexual violence in conflicts.

"Often it is the lack of evidence that means that these things go unpunished," Hague told Sky television on Sunday.

"Now this will lead to prosecutions. None of this will be achieved overnight but this is a problem which has been getting worse in recent decades and is utterly unacceptable in the 21st century."

The conference, with 1,200 attendees including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, will be co-hosted by Hague and Jolie, special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who joined forces in 2012 to tackle rape and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Oscar-winner Jolie's involvement in humanitarian issues dates back to 2001 when she traveled to Sierra Leone as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and was horrified to see the impact of years of civil war when an estimated 60,000 women were raped.

UNLIKELY PAIR

The unlikely pair have traveled together to witness the legacy of sexual violence in war and the work to help victims.

Earlier this year they went to Bosnia where more than 100,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the 1992-95 war when an estimated 20,000 women were believed raped.

Figures from UNICEF estimate an average of 36 women and girls are raped daily in the Democratic Republic of Congo where up to 200,000 women have suffered sexual violence since 1998.

Alice Allan, head of advocacy at CARE International, said the world had been horrified by several recent cases of violence on women which would raise the bar at the summit.

"Violence against women is not new but social media has helped bring these cases to the fore and helped galvanize governments to commit to taking action," Allan told Reuters.

"These cases have been horrific but hopefully it will lead to greater action this week and public commitments from governments to which they will be held accountable."

The summit comes after Hague and Jolie last year launched a Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict that pledged to end impunity, promote accountability, and provide justice and safety for victims of sexual violence.

So far about 150 countries have signed the declaration that calls for funding to tackle violence and help survivors, improved collection of data and evidence for court action, and a ban on amnesties for sexual violence in peace agreements.

All signatory countries were invited to the London summit where the fate of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls will be debated at a ministerial meeting on Thursday.

But the need for concrete action after four days of talking at the summit was seen as critical if there was to be progress.

"Just because Burma signed the international declaration on sexual violence, it doesn't mean they will do anything about it. There should be a six-month deadline for seeing implementation of the declaration in Burma," said Zoya Phan, campaign manager at Burma Campaign UK.

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Sophie Hares)



















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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Forbes


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6/26/2013 @ 7:13AM |707 views


Angelina Jolie Is The Most Powerful Actress On Our Celebrity 100 List



 
Dorothy Pomerantz, Forbes Staff
Angelina Jolie didn’t have to tell the world why she had been out of the spotlight for months. She could have said that she was just spending time with her large family or taking a much-needed break after years of working nonstop.
Instead the actress chose to open up about her preventive double mastectomy. Jolie, who carries a gene that puts her at an elevated risk for breast cancer, explained her decision in a New York Timesop-ed that sparked both support and controversy.
Jolie’s ability to shape a national conversation while earning one of the highest paychecks in Hollywood makes her the most powerful actress on ourCelebrity 100 list. Jolie ranks 41st overall with $33 million in earnings. Much of that comes from her upfront pay for the movie Maleficent, Disney’s new take on the old Sleeping Beauty story. Jolie stars as the wicked queen in the movie, which is scheduled for release next summer.
The second most-powerful actress on our list is newcomer Jennifer Lawrence, who ranks 49th with $26 million. It’s hard to think of an actress who had a better year than Lawrence. She started 2012 withThe Hunger Games, which grossed $690 million at the global box office, making it one of the highest-grossing movies of the year. Lawrence was paid less than $1 million upfront for her work on the film but she made up for that with a much fatter paycheck to revisit the role of Katniss Everdeen for the sequel,Catching Fire.




Angelina Jolie

Never one to shy away from controversy, Jolie recently shared with the world that she had undergone a voluntary double mastectomy because she carries a gene that puts her at a high risk for breast cancer. Her revelation sparked plenty of debate and showed again why Jolie is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. It also explained her recent time out of the limelight but she's back in full force now with a big payday under her belt for Maleficent, Disney's new spin on the Sleeping Beauty story.




Johnny Depp And Britney Spears Fail To Make The 2013 Celebrity 100

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Few actors can demand $20 million or more per film, like  Johnny Depp. Yet the actor failed to rank on our Celebrity 100 list this year.
Don’t be alarmed, Depp fans: he is indisputably still one of the most powerful celebrities in Hollywood. But in our time frame, June 2012 to June 2013, Depp had something of a career lull. He earned an upfront fee for playing Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer‘s update of The Lone Ranger last year and his big 2012 movie, Dark Shadows, was something of a dud, bringing in $245 million globally, not enough to cover the film’s expenses, meaning no big back-end payout for Depp.
Depp also suffered because he avoids social media, a key component in our revamped Celebrity 100 algorithm. Expect the actor to return to our list soon.
Another star who fell off in 2013: Britney Spears. The singer ranked sixth last year with $58 million in earnings and plenty of fame. With no tour in the past 12 months though, her earnings fell dramatically. We estimate that Spears brought in $24 million over the past 12 months. A lot of that came from her one-season hosting stint on The X-Factor, but it wasn’t enough for her to compete with power pop stars like Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
Adele is another singer who made a big splash on our 2012 list, debuting in 24th place with $35 million. But like Spears, Adele didn’t have a tour in our time frame. For better or worse, tours are now the main source of income for musicians. Adele earned an Oscar for Skyfall, her first James Bond theme song, but with only an estimated $30 million in earnings, it wasn’t enough to land her on this year’s Celebrity 100.
Reality stars, who have thrived on our lists in the past few years, stumbled in 2013 with our revamped algorithm that eliminates cover stories as a key metric. Khloe Kardashian ranked 73rd last year with $11 million in earnings but failed to make this year’s list. Her sister Kim is the only reality star on our new Celebrity 100. The new mom ranks 66th with $10 million in earnings thanks to her undeniable fame.
Another reality star who fell off of our list is Bethenny Frankel. Our 2011 cover girl, who ranked 97th last year with $12 million, just didn’t have the money or fame this time around to make our list. With her syndicated talk show about to hit the airwaves, the star has a good chance of finding her way back onto our list in the next few years.



Complete Coverage: The Celebrity 100


Rank Name Pay Money Rank TV/Radio Rank Press Rank Marketability Rank Social Rank
41

Angelina Jolie

 $33 M 59 14 20 32 76
42

E.L. James

 $95 M 3 68 51 100 79
43

Toby Keith

 $65 M 19 75 83 54 45
44

James Patterson

 $91 M 6 89 70 78 57
45

Howard Stern

 $95 M 3 52 95 93 73
46

Carrie Underwood

 $31 M 61 56 64 14 28
47

Kenny Chesney

 $53 M 33 64 92 41 41
48

Usain Bolt

 $24 M 71 29 22 60 26
49

Jennifer Lawrence

 $26 M 67 20 21 32 88
50

Drew Brees

 $51 M 36 79 69 41 61













The Celebrity 100: How We Create The List

We’ve revamped our algorithm for the 2013 Celebrity 100 with the goal of making a cleaner list that better reflects what accounts for celebrity power. In the past, we’ve given extra weight to magazine covers based on the logic that publications only select powerful, popular people for their valuable cover space.
But that emphasis had started to reward reality stars who know how to work the tabloid media but don’t actually have what we would consider power.
So we’ve scrapped that part of the metric. In its place we’ve turned to E-Poll Market Research, an Encino-based company whose E-Score Celebrity metric ranks 6,600 celebrities on 46 different attributes. We’re using the company’s E-Score number to come up with our Marketability Rank, a measure of how desirable each celebrity is to marketers.

We’ve also improved how we evaluate social-networking power. In our connected world, celebrities have an amazing opportunity to connect directly with their fans and push their music, movies and sponsored products. Some celebrities, like Justin Bieber, who is our most-social celebrity, take advantage of this. Others, like Jennifer Aniston, avoid social networking like the plague.
We used to just look at Facebook FB +2.11% and Twitter numbers to gauge social-networking pull. This year we worked with Starcount, a Singapore-based Internet company that measures social networking power across 11 platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and Weibo. Each star’s number is a reflection of how popular he or she is on the Internet.
We still track print media and television and radio mentions using Factiva.
The Celebrity 100 is based on entertainment-related earnings plus media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online). We consider film and television actors, TV personalities, models, athletes, authors, musicians and comedians.
To compile our earnings numbers, we talk to industry insiders, including agents, lawyers, producers and other experts, to come up with an estimate for what each celebrity earned between June 1, 2012, and June 1, 2013. Earnings consist of pretax gross income. Management, agent and attorney fees are not deducted.
All of the data is processed through an algorithm that creates our power ranking. Earnings carry the most weight. Print mentions, TV mentions, social-networking power and marketability all carry equal weight.
We then divide the celebrities into categories like musician, actor, actress and personality.
Sources: Google, Factiva, The Nielsen Co., Pollstar, Box Office Mojo, Euromonitor International, Publishers Weekly and IMDBPro.


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