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 Hollywood's Most 
 Profitable Actresses 

Naomi Watts delivers big hits for relatively little pay

Oct 6, 09 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Straitened studio heads unwilling to give $10 million to divas and hope for a hit should call Naomi Watts' agent right now. The Australian star of Mulholland Drive and The Ring is the most bankable actress in Hollywood, Forbes calculates. Her films earned an average of $44 for every dollar... More »

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Hollywood • Halle Berry • Jennifer Aniston • Cate Blanchett • Meryl Streep • Natalie Portman • Rachel McAdams • actor • Naomi Watts • Anne Hathaway • actress • return on investment • Jennifer Connelly • Hilary Swank

(Newser) - At least one person looks to have benefited more from Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff, ProPublica reports. Jeffry Picower, a secretive philanthropist and investor in medical technologies, is on the books as having withdrawn some $5.1 billion in returns from 1995 to 2008, well beyond his... More »

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philanthropy • Ponzi scheme • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff • charitable giving • return on investment • Jeffry Picower • Picower Foundation • medical technology

(Newser) - The Oscars are coming up, but that orgy of self-congratulation doesn’t celebrate what really matters in Hollywood: money. Forbes crunched the numbers for 2008 and selected the winners of a different award: the Rainmaker.
  • Best Actor: Robert Downey Jr. returned $52.60 to Paramount for every dollar
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Academy Awards • film • awards • award show • Paramount Pictures • box office • Robert Downey Jr. • Meryl Streep • Juno • Jason Reitman • movies • blockbusters • Iron Man • Mamma Mia! • return on investment

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