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Entertainment Weekly picks the 50 smartest people in Hollywood

by Bob Sassone, posted Nov 29th 2007 2:23PM

EW logoI'm disappointed by this list (I'm disappointed by most lists these days) because they're aren't many TV people on it. Oh, there are some TV execs and producers (J.J. Abrams) and plenty of former TV stars (George Clooney, Will Smith, Will Ferrell), but there's no Tina Fey? She's the first name that popped into my head, TV-wise. I know there are others (readers, that's your cue to comment!). Freaks and Geeks creator Judd Apatow is on the list, as is Tyler Perry. Sacha Baron Cohen is there too.

I wonder how they came up with this list. Did they send out questionnaires? Administer IQ tests? Or did they just go with some equation that includes success, popularity, power, and how they handle themselves in interviews? How exactly did Ben Stiller get two spots before Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg? Is Modi Wiczyk, co-CEO of Media Rights Capital really smarter than Jeff Skoll, founder of Participant Productions?

It's funny that even though they put Ben Affleck on a list of the 50 smartest people in Hollywood, they stick him at number 50. He just gets no respect at all.

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Sherman

If you read the EW article closely it states that this list is

"the 50 brightest minds leading the film industry forward today. (We'll get to our TV-industry list after the New Year--hopefully by then those big brains will have figured out how to end the strike.)"

EW set expectations clearly but as usual this particular blogger spouts opinions without cursory research.

So I suppose we'll have to wait until that future issue to hear this blogger express even more disappointment then.

December 01 2007 at 12:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BillS

FYI, Paul Feig created Freaks and Geeks. Apatow was a writer/producer.

November 30 2007 at 1:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AJ

...Masi Oka is like a super genius isn't he?

November 29 2007 at 5:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
khamel

apatow at #1. what a turn of events for him. freaks and geeks couldn't last a year. undeclared (good but not nearly f&g) doesn't get aired in the right order and doesn't last a year. earlier the ben stiller show, same story. he had a good run on the larry sanders show but he was 'just' a writer.

2005 starts and hes on fire. from zero to hero in 2 years.

November 29 2007 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

Smart can have a different meaning than intelligent. But if you want an intelligent TV person I choose Masi Oka (Hiro on Heroes) he worked as a CGI artist for Industrial Light and Magic and wasn't on the cover of Time for being a genius when he was a kid?

November 29 2007 at 3:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LBT

Where is Trey Parker?

November 29 2007 at 3:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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