Kim Kardashian Tops Highest-Paid TV Star List at $6 Million

Kim Kardashian topped The Daily Beast's highest-paid TV star list, earning $6 million in 2010.

The E! reality star, who wrapped up her fifth season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians this year, made her cash by promoting everything from Skechers to Kotex, and also shilling for a skincare line and Quick Trim with her sisters. She can earn as much as $75,000 an appearance.

Former Hills star Lauren Conrad came in at No. 2 with $5 million, thanks to her burgeoning fashion career (she has a hot-selling line at Kohl's), and trilogy of young adult books. Her most recent one, Sugar and Spice, has sold more than 1 million copies in hardback, according to Nielsen numbers.

Bethenny Frankel, who rose to fame on The Real Housewives of New York before getting her own Bravo spin-off, earned $4 million last year. She made the most cash, though, from her "skinny" series, which includes nutrition books and a margarita mix.

Round out the top 5 are Audrina Partridge (thanks to a Carl's Jr. endorsement, her deal with producer Mark Burnett and a hosting gig on internet network Yobi.tv) and Kate Gosselin ($250,000 per episode of her TLC show, speaking and book deals and her Dancing With the Stars fees), who each earned $3.5 million.

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Knight and Day Blu-Ray Review

Movie Rating:  4 out of 5
Extras Rating: 5 out of 5
Overview: Big screen superstars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz come together in this fun, action-packed thrill-ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat. When a small-town girl named June (Diaz) meets a mysterious stranger, she thinks she’s found the man of her dreams. But she soon discovers he’s a fugitive super-spy, who thrusts her into a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase that spans the globe. As the bullets and sparks fly, June must decide if her “Knight” in shining armor is a dangerous traitor or the love of her life.

Review: June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is woman traveling to Boston. Her line of work is restoring old cars. Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) is a phenomenal spy. He can fly planes, kill bad guys, and kick ass, and look good while doing it. But Roy is a government agent that ‘goes rogue’ when he’s framed for attempting to steal a top secret renewable energy source. In order to help clear his name, he actually does steal the energy source, kidnaps its fresh-out-of-high-school creator. While at the airport, Roy bumps into June and uses her bag to smuggle an item of great importance. She is unaware of his hidden agenda until later on.

From then on,  we get to watch June and Roy travel the globe. Of course, there’s the double-crossing, close escapes, false identities, and head-spinning romantic snafus, which they come to realize that all they can count on is on each other.

Anyways, I feel for Tom Cruise whose gotten some really bad publicity as well as the negative reviews from this movie mainly because of his past behavior. But one has to see this movie with a tongue in cheek attitude. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz sizzle together, there’s a lot of funny humor all through out the movie.

Director James Mangold did amazing job with his camera angles. He kept the camera steady especially during the action sequence scenes. It’s a fast-paced action flick with incredible car chase special effects. The only negative thing I had with the film is that there were  more than enough facial close up shots on screen. You can really tell on Blu-Ray that both Diaz and Cruise have aged a bit with those close up shots but they still look good on screen.

'Knight and Day' Trailer 2

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