"Entertainment Weekly" magazine has named veteran author J.K. Rowling as Entertainer of the Year for 2007. The Harry Potter author, who has sold around 400 million copies of her most popular book series, released her seventh and final Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, this year.
The sales of the boy-wizard series has generated at estimated of $15 billion and the movie adaptation of the book series has grossed an estimated $4.49 billion. The author’s efforts to entertain both children and adults have landed her on the cover of the Entertainment Weekly as Entertainer of the Year 2007.
Entertainment Weekly’s list of this year’s 25 Entertainers of the Year was separated into five other categories, which evoke school cliques: prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians.
George Clooney, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie were named the valedictorians; Amy Winehouse, Gerard Butler, Tyler Perry and TV series, "Mad Men" as buzz-worthy; Zac Efron, Shia LaBeouf, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus as prodigies; Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, Vanessa Williams, Tina Fey and "The Simpsons" as the class clowns.
