The 50 Smartest People In Hollywood

It's not about power anymore -- meet the brains who are taking the film biz forward, from Ben Affleck to Sacha Baron Cohen to Jodie Foster to...our Superbad No. 1
By EW Staff
November 28, 2007 at 10:00 PM EST

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