Several other Brazilian celebrities have tried without success to become A listers outside of their country.
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Rock stars and celebrities may have a variety of different catering companies working for them throughout the United States, but larger acts and A-listers like to have a trusted source to make sure their diet is in line with their requests.
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Francois Navarre, who as the owner of X17 agency employs teams to trail a cadre of A-listers (think Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan) almost 24 hours a day, says this kind of extreme surveillance is necessary to beat the competition.
Rather than the champagne-soaked kudofest that A-listers--and viewers--are accustomed to, the Globes were reduced to a one-hour press conference.
Others go in-house: Motorola runs its own invitation-only showroom in West Hollywood, designed solely for A-listers.
When the event finally got under way, those A-listers were nowhere to be found.
Over the past decade, the event has evolved into a festival of A-listers and corporate sponsors.
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Increasingly, A-listers are offering their properties to anyone -- or at least, anyone who can afford the sometimes eye-popping cost.
Perfect for entertainment A-listers, the estate is completely secluded and extremely private.
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And then there's Suri Cruise, daughter to A-listers Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who has proved frequent tabloid fodder since she left the womb.
Tarver is old enough to know boxing is the most showbiz of sports with an VIP guest list dripping with Hollywood A-listers and sporting glitterati.
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For the A-listers themselves, animated films are now seen as credible projects -- even, since 2001, honored with their own category at the Academy Awards.
Just as importantly, Buss identified Johnson as a guy he could build a glamorous, entertaining team around, one that fit the town and drew tons of Hollywood A-listers into courtside seats.
Earth Biofuels, the Dallas green-energy firm he founded with the help of A-listers like Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and Julia Roberts, has been hit with an involuntary bankruptcy petition in Delaware.
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With several in-demand A-listers in the cast, he says he was fortunate "that everyone was able to come back, and Sean Penn came along to support us, even though he wasn't in the scene".
After all, Russian oligarchs are quite fond of flying in Hollywood A-listers (and sometimes C-listers) for private parties, and the list of musicians, movie stars, and entertainers who have been willing to perform in Russia massively exceeds the list of those who have refused.
Methodology: To compile these rankings, a team of a dozen reporters interviewed rich listers, employees, competitors, investors, fund managers, real estate agents and securities analysts.
In fact, one prominent New York suburb is actually in the top 10 itself: Greenwich, Conn. boasts 8 rich listers out of a population of just 60, 000.
Thanks to a roaring stock market whose benchmark index was up 53% in the past year and a strong rupee that appreciated 12%, for the first time all Indian rich listers are billionaires.
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