Mark Wahlberg Makes The List

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Punk, rapper, model, actor, producer–

‘s life and career are a series of reincarnations. (0)
His life and career have been a series of reincarnations–rap star, underwear model, Hollywood actor, TV and movie producer–that tie back to a misspent youth that nearly ruined his life and that still haunts his undisputed success. (0)
Last year’s crime drama We Own the Night was a modest success at the box office, pulling in $54 million. (0)
before a midday shoot of a scene for Entourage, the HBO hit show about a movie star and his childhood friends as they navigate the perils of Tinseltown, based loosely on his life. (0)
His Hollywood career in high gear, Wahlberg has the lead in three movies scheduled for release in the next 18 months: The Happening, a paranormal thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan; Max Payne, a revenge drama based on the videogame; and The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel about the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. (0)
Singing and rapping were popular pastimes for the kids in his neighborhood, but Wahlberg soon lit out from New Kids because he felt that the music was too soft. (0)
That led to a part opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the small-budget art film The Basketball Diaries the next year–and then his breakthrough role as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, a 1997 movie about the pornography industry. (0)
“He threw himself into the part with a physical force,” says Scorsese. Thanks in part to that movie, he commands $12 million to $15 million per film, plus a piece of the back end, among the highest in Hollywood, a rung below actors like Tom Cruise. (0)
His role as a hard-bitten cop in Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Irish mafia drama, The Departed, led him to the pinnacle of performance–and kicked him back to the dark days of his boyhood. (0)
“I look at Entourage as the sweet spot of HBO programming,” says Richard Plepler, co-president of the cable network. (0)