EW's Top 101 Hollywood Power List

Oct. 19 -- The man who gave the green light to summer television’s guilty pleasure, Survivor, topped Entertainment Weekly’s annual list of the most powerful 101 people in show biz.

CBS President Leslie Moonves “outwitted, outlasted andoutplayed his network rivals,” the magazine said.

Mogul Moonves topped two actors, Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise,who finished right behind him.

Napster and Harry Potter Join TooFifty-one million people watched the final Survivor inAugust. The show was not only enormously profitable, it was thefirst entertainment program in years to bring a significantlyyounger audience to CBS.

Producer Mark Burnett, already at work on Survivor II inAustralia, was No. 81 on EW’s list.

The magazine’s top 10 includes a teenaged newcomer: ShawnFanning. The creator of the song-sharing service Napster “starteda music revolution bigger than Elvis and the Beatles combined,”Entertainment Weekly said.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was No. 5, praised forgetting children to read.

Others in the top 10 include Dreamworks SKG partners StevenSpielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, Universal MusicGroup CEO Doug Morris, Miramax Films chief Bob Weinstein and actorsBruce Willis and Tom Hanks.

List ‘Like a Tech Stock’The magazine’s closely watched list “is like a tech stock,”said Maggie Murphy, EW assistant managing editor. “Today, this ishow it will be … in five weeks, it might be different.”

Entertainment Weekly created a separate “titans list” thisyear to separate corporate dealmakers. On top of that list was theexecutive team of Steve Case and Gerald Levin, who will head AOLTime Warner if that pending merger is approved.

What does a game show craze get you? No. 28, where Who Wantsto Be a Millionaire host Regis Philbin landed on the list for thefirst time.

“What’s important to remember is that he’s ahead of the guyswho hired him at ABC,” Murphy said.