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The proliferation of lists this time of year is just a necessary December evil, like McDonald's Arch Card commercials, or carbon monoxide poisoning. In order to help you make heads or tails of all this obsessive year-end cataloging, a round-up:
· Entertainment Tonight has announced its annual "ET Hot List" in a press release, which basically tabulates which stars got the most mentions on the show that year. #1 is Tom Cruise, though his victory is somewhat soured by the fact that Anna Nicole Smith, having repeatedly sold them her own story for methadone and rent money, came in at an impressive #4. The full list is after the jump, for those of you for whom seasonal depressive disorder has not yet completely set in. [ETOnline]
· Entertainment Weekly named the cast of Grey's Anatomy as their "Entertainers of the Year," with Executive Editor Lori Majewski explaining that it's not just a show, "it's a phenomenon. Back in May when last season's final show aired, every place in New York City was empty. You could get a table at the best restaurants." We commend Majewski for going above and beyond the call of duty by canvassing every fine restaurant in Manhattan in anticipation of this not at all hyperbolic or hype-propagating quote. [Reuters]
· Cracked.com gives us a list of truly awful Christmas gifts, but we think the runner-up—an Adriane from Rocky action figure—should probably have taken top honors, if for nothing else looking like a GI Joe doll disguised as a fat Russian woman. [Cracked]
· BestWeekEver.tv is offering 10 Days of 10 Best Lists. Today's category, movie clichés, tackles an inconvenient truth that could ultimately pose a legitimate threat to our survival as a species: Eugene Levy oversaturation. [BWE]

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT'S HOT LIST OF THE TOP CELEBRITIES OF 2006 1 Tom Cruise 2 Brad Pitt 3 Angelina Jolie 4 Anna Nicole Smith 5 Katie Holmes 6 Oprah Winfrey 7 Jennifer Aniston 8 Jessica Simpson 9 George Clooney 10 Eva Longoria 11 Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman 12 Lindsay Lohan and Reese Witherspoon 13 Tori Spelling 14 Charlize Theron 15 Nick Lachey 16 Katie Couric 17 Marcia Cross 18 Nicole Kidman 19 Heather Locklear 20 Patrick Dempsey