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JK Rowling's magical, Midas touch has landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's entertainer of the year.
The magazine said the "Harry Potter" author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that has been adapted into a mega-successful movie franchise, deserved props for getting "people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet".
The magazine named George Clooney a valedictorian because he has "deftly balanced box-office viability with personal responsibility".
