A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

THE BELLE OF UPPER DARBY: Entertainment Weekly is soliciting nominees for its annual Entertainer of the Year award. Previous winners, courtesy Wiki, are:

• Bart Simpson (1990)
• Jodie Foster (1991)
• the cast of "Saturday Night Live" (1992)
• Steven Spielberg (1993)
• Tom Hanks (1994)
• the cast of "Friends" (1995)
• Rosie O'Donnell (1996)
• Ellen DeGeneres (1997)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (1998)
• Ricky Martin (1999)
• Russell Crowe (2000)
• Nicole Kidman (2001)
• Denzel Washington (2002)
• the cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Jon Stewart (2004)
• the cast of Lost (2005)
• the cast of Grey's Anatomy (2006)
• J. K. Rowling (2007)

To me, there's only two real nominees for 2008: Tina Fey and -- pending the quality of The Soloist -- Robert Downey Jr.

e.t.a. And Our Friend Alan Sepinwall immediately notes that The Soloist has been pushed back to a March 2009 release. There goes that idea. The Battling Davids?