1. Madonna, for her pop prowess. The material girl-turned Kabalalist announced this week her Confessions Tour will launch in Los Angeles on May 21. Designer Jean Paul Gaultier will create costumes for the singer and her back-up dancers.
2. Big-screen Julia Roberts, for her successful Broadway bow. The New York City show Three Days of Rain grossed $988,298 during its first full week of preview performances and is a hit with critics.
3. The Ice Age sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown, for scoring the second biggest opening weekend for an animated film in box office history–behind Shrek 2.
4. King Kong on DVD, for setting a record. Fans snapped up 6.5 million copies of the DVD in its first six days, making it the best-selling Universal release ever. The sales tally amounts to more than $100 million in revenue.
5. Controversial animated TV show South Park, for being “consistent in its insistence on non-censorship,” according to Peabody Awards director Horace Newcomb. The show will be honored with a prestigious Peabody Award in June in recognition of its work promoting tolerance in the country.
6. Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, for making a Texas-sized leap. The English director is in talks to direct the movie adaptation of 1980s TV drama Dallas, a week after Robert Luketic walked out on the project.
7. Actor Hugh Jackman, for Cannes dominance. Jackman’s X-Men: The Last Stand and The Fountain will debut at the 59th annual Cannes Film Festival.
8. British comedian Ricky Gervais, for standing by his words. Gervais turned down a staggering $3.5 million to appear in a TV commercial for an American beer brand.
9. Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, for his ongoing world domination. Diddy’s new fragrance, Unforgivable, has become the country’s number one selling cologne since it launched in February.
10. Best-selling book The Da Vinci Code, for, of course, recording the highest weekly sales for any paperback in history last week. The novel sold half-a-million copies in its first week of release in the U.S.
