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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elvis is still the king when it comes to earning royalties, according to Forbes magazine, but Shakespeare could have given him a run for the money. Forbes' annual list of Ten-Top Earning Dead Celebrities issued on Thursday showed Elvis Presley was top earner for the fifth straight year, generating $45 million for his estate. Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz held his customary spot at No. 2, with $35 million. Presley died in 1977 and his music is still going strong,...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elvis is still the king when it comes to earning royalties, according to Forbes magazine, but Shakespeare could have given him a run for the money. Forbes' annual list of Ten-Top Earning Dead Celebrities issued on Thursday showed Elvis Presley was top earner for the fifth straight year, generating $45 million for his estate. Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz held his customary spot at No. 2, with $35 million. Presley died in 1977 and his music is still going strong,...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elvis is still the king when it comes to earning royalties, according to Forbes magazine, but Shakespeare could have given him a run for the money. Forbes' annual list of Ten-Top Earning Dead Celebrities issued on Thursday showed Elvis Presley was top earner for the fifth straight year, generating $45 million for his estate. Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz held his customary spot at No. 2, with $35 million. Presley died in 1977 and his music is still going strong,...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Beatles were singled out on Friday as the most influential entertainers of the past 100 years, beating out the likes of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse, according to a survey conducted by show business newspaper Variety. Behind the Fab Four's first-place finish, were in alphabetical order: jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong, television comedienne Lucille Ball, movie legends Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean and Marilyn...
