JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, is the richest woman in Britain, says the Daily Mail, with an annual take of some $177 million. Catherine Zeta=Jones came in at #11. Others on the Daily Mail list included Madonna and ex- Spice girl Victoria Beckham.
This news followed by a day a big story listing Hollywood films in 2003 and their "grosses."
When I was young, the newspapers simply did not allocate space to this kind of story.
They rated movies on entertainment value.
But my youth was a long time ago. So long, in fact, that my parents taught us that "money wasn't everything."
How innocent they were. Or were they? Maybe they were just conveying what most people believed in that era.
If so, times have changed.