That perception could shift thanks to her work with Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton).

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Jennifer Lopez topped our Celebrity 100 last year (which measures fame and wealth) mostly thanks to her work on Idol.

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The boy's mother, in a statement released by authorities, expressed her thanks for all the hard work of so many officers to bring her son home.

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She fought back tears as she announced that her father had been identified thanks to the "unwavering work" of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.

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Ostensibly a purely nonfiction autobiography, it sold millions--thanks in no small part to Winfrey's inclusion of the work in her book club.

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She gets to work with some of the world's best known companies, thanks to her professional credentials and track record, and she believes that her second career as a painter allows her to use art as a catalyst for more effective thinking among those clients.

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Casie Stewart, a 28-year-old social-media consultant from Toronto, has earned a free Virgin America flight, a shopping splurge at Mark's Work Wearhouse and an all-expenses-paid trip to New Zealand fashion week thanks to her prolific tweeting and blogging about her life.

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She points to one of her successors in the social history department who, thanks to pre-crash funding, has been able to work with young people and those with mental health problems.

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