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"The Fifth Annual Details Power List\nFind out how hooking up with Jennifer Aniston turned two guys into international superpowers, how Dan Bartlett manages to make Bush look (slightly) less dumb; and how a few little bloggers have all of Hollywood reaching for the Xanax. Plus: 47 more of the most formidable men under 42 from our fifth annual Power list.\n1)JEN'S MEN\n\n BRAD PITT ACTOR, PRODUCER, TROPHY HUSBAND; AGE: 42\n\n VINCE VAUGHN ACTOR, PRODUCER, FUNNY GUY; AGE: 36\n\n LAST YEAR'S RANK: 20\n\nYou'd have an easier time finding a place unaffected by global warming than you would escaping news of these men. The moment Vaughn sidled up to Jennifer Aniston and became the yin to Pitt's yang, the two became omnipotent. Don't pretend you don't know about the Namibian sabbatical, the PDA on the Chicago hotel, the Madame Tussaud nativity scene, and the PDA on that Chicago hotel balcony.\n2)CHAD HURLEY &amp;amp; STEVE CHEN\n\n FOUNDERS, YOUTUBE; AGES: 29 &amp;amp; 27\n\n At Allen &amp;amp; Co.'s Sun Valley conference this July, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, founders of YouTube, reportedly turned their noses up at any bids less than $1 billion for their year-old company\u2014almost double what Rupert Murdoch paid for MySpace last year. Which may be because their site attracts 200 million page views and 6 million unique users a day, and its videos became a near-instant fixture in blogs, e-mails, and MySpace profiles.\n3) THE JEW AS LIGHTNING ROD\n\n AGE: ETERNAL\n\n When a marinated Mel Gibson sputtered anti-Semitic remarks at a Malibu deputy late one July night, he poured gasoline on already intense flames. His words might have seemed merely ignorant, but this and other offenses (the opening of the restaurant Hitler's Cross near Mumbai; synagogues vandalized from Brazil to Norway to New Zealand) came during an ominous year. Beware: Drunk men say what sober men only think.\n4) REICHEN LEHMKUHL\n\n CLOSET CLEANER; AGE: 32\n\n Reichen Lehmkuhl was the catalyst for the biggest outing since Ellen. Last summer, the Amazing Race contestant was out; his best buddy, the former 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, wasn't. The blogs were abuzz and the New York Daily News wondered why Bass was borrowing Lehmkuhl's T-shirt. Bass finally scratched the itch in July with a People magazine cover: I'M GAY. Lehmkuhl's lesson? The Gay Rumor remains the entertainment world's most potent weapon.\n5) THE CELEBLOGGERS\n\n TRENT VANEGAS BLOGGER, PINK IS THE NEW BLOG; AGE: 32\n\n MARIO LAVANDEIRA BLOGGER, PEREZ HILTON; AGE: 28\n\n JOSH LEVINE CAMERAMAN, TMZ; AGE: 25\n\n As a measure of their impact, consider that these purveyors of innuendo, cattiness, and caught-in-the-act journalism make us feel sorry for Hollywood publicists. That was as unthinkable as the idea that two guys with laptops and one with a video camera could force TV networks to shroud their shows' plots in secrecy, TomKat's friends to rally to confirm Suri's existence, and the entertainment-news machine to rethink its puff-piece formulas. \"We have to be more self-motivated and enterprising,\" says Access Hollywood executive producer Rob Silverstein. \"It's the only way to stay relevant.\" Each of the three has his calling card. Trent Vanegas is all hot-pink exuberance, while Mario Lavandeira (pictured) coins bitchy monikers for his victims (GyllenHO, Kiki Drunkst, Kevin \"K-Fag\" Federline). And Josh Levine, TMZ's on-the-ground man, shot the video of a trash-talking Brandon Davis that's been streamed a million times, turning the obscure socialite into a celebrity jackass faster than you can say \"firecrotch.\" Vanegas has decamped to L.A. from Detroit, Lavandeira has a reality show in the works, and Levine was assaulted by Woody Harrelson. How much closer to fame can you get?\n6) MATT MCCAULLEY\n\n SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE; AGE: 34\n\n As a state representative, Matt McCaulley wrote the language that ensures South Dakota bill HB1215, signed into law this March, will either overturn a woman's constitutional right to abortion or reaffirm it, perhaps in perpetuity. So when the Supreme Court eventually rules on his no-exceptions (including for rape or incest) abortion ban, McCaulley will become a mythic figure in the abortion wars\u2014but even he isn't sure which side will cheer him. \"Going for the jugular of Roe\" is a gamble, admits McCaulley, now a lawyer in private practice. \"But epic legal battles aren't won by standing still.\" Already, 11 states have passed \"trigger statutes\" or policy statements indicating that they will outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, though many moderate right-to-lifers fear a backlash against the South Dakota ban. \"It has definitely motivated pro-choice Americans\u2014our supporters see this as the attack it is,\" says Nancy Keenan, president of naral. \"Pro-choice candidates are using these egregious bans on abortion to put their opponents on the defense.\" What's clear is that the media-shy McCaulley has sparked a firestorm that is starting to change the electoral landscape\u2014by the time nine justices have their say in 2009, it may look more like scorched earth.\n7) THE NEW ENERGY PIONEERS\n\n RON PERNICK CO-FOUNDER, CLEAN EDGE; AGE: 42\n\n SCOTT KOHL TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, ICM INC.; AGE: 35\n\n Until recently, energy technology was the kind of issue that put all but the most committed environmentalist straight to sleep. Not anymore: With the country's dependency on oil costing lives in the Middle East and Al Gore giving the subject the Hollywood treatment, energy is hot. Venture capitalists, major corporations, and government agencies all want advice on how to get in on the new frontier. Sound familiar? Ron Pernick, who cofounded the research firm Clean Edge, has seen this kind of technological gold rush before. He cut his teeth on Internet startups including Yahoo, and what Jupiter Consulting did for the Internet, Clean Edge aims to do for energy. When the Nasdaq wanted to create a clean-energy index, and when officials in San Francisco needed advice on running the city on clean energy, they called Pernick. Clean Edge's research shows that the biggest clean-energy market is in biofuel, and Scott Kohl, the technical director of R&amp;amp;D at ICM, an engineering company, is leading a team that in five to ten years may have cars running on highly efficient, clean, dirt-cheap ethanol that's made not from corn but from soybean husks, wood scraps, grass\u2014anything containing cellulose. \"The development of cellulosic ethanol,\" says Michael Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, \"is the key to unlocking our new energy future.\" At about $1.50 a gallon to refine, and with 30 percent lower emissions than gasoline, it could replace more than half of the gas currently used and decrease oil imports by 50 percent\u2014enough to make everyone pay attention.\n9) LEONARDO DICAPRIO\n\n ACTOR, PRODUCEr; AGE: 31 LAST YEAR'S RANK: 20\n\n Don't look now, but Leo's most clich\u00E9d line is starting to sound prophetic. Nine years after starring in the most successful film ever, he is indeed poised to be \"king of the world.\" And his rise is proof of the power of saying no. Since Titanic, DiCaprio has steadfastly refused work for work's sake, making only six films yet remaining one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors. He's grown into an intense, brooding force, Scorsese's new De Niro (this month's gritty cop drama The Departed marks DiCaprio's third film with the director). \"The transition between young man and leading man is a hard one, and he did it triumphantly,\" says Ed Zwick, who directed him in the thriller The Blood Diamond, out this December. Now DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions are going on a literary bender: Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian classic Cat's Cradle, Malcolm Gladwell's best seller Blink, Robert Ludlum's The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Pulitzer-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. \"His instincts as a producer are as solid and exciting as the choices he makes as an actor,\" says Jeff Robinov, head of production at Warner Bros. The latest buzz also has DiCaprio playing the acid-testing guru Timothy Leary in a biopic, a fitting follow-up to his first starring turn, as a strung-out Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries. Coming full circle to realize his early promise? One more prophecy Leo is fulfilling.\n10) THE 9/11 HIJACKERS\n\n MASS MURDERERS, TERRORISTS, U.S. POLICY-MAKERS; AGES: 20 TO 33\n\n  That $1,000 you and every other taxpayer have ponied up for war in Iraq with no end in sight? Score one for bin Laden's boys. That cozy feeling that somebody might be listening in on your phone calls and flipping through your e-mails? Another little victory for the box-cutter crew. That gnawing guilt you feel about the fun and games undertaken in your name at Guant\u00E1namo, Abu Ghraib, and our very own gulag archipelago of secret prisons scattered who knows where? That's their handiwork too. The Gang of 19 hijacked more than planes; they hijacked our history, handing an aimless eight-month-old Bush administration a one-size-fits-all excuse for just about everything, from highly creative interpretations of the Constitution to the gleeful swift-boating of decorated veterans. Next month's elections promise another referendum on 9/11: \"Pay no attention to the DeLays, the Cunninghams, and the Neys on our team\u2014the other side wants the terrorists to win!\" Trouble is, they already have. Five years later, it's time to admit it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13) TIGER WOODS\n\n GOLFER; AGE: 30 LAST YEAR'S RANK: 9\n\n He's already the most recognized athlete on the planet. And he stands to be for some time\u2014a golfer has decades more playing (and earning) potential than, say, a Chicago Bulls shooting guard. But now that Woods is 30, he's become what he never could as a golf upstart: a blue-chip brand. Suddenly he's a deeply credible spokesperson who's received an estimated $87 million from myriad companies: Accenture, American Express, Buick, Electronic Arts, Golf Digest, NetJets, Nike, TAG Heuer, Target, TLC Laser Eye Centers, and Upper Deck. \"He conducts himself in an extremely professional, disciplined way, and companies strive for that association,\" says Philip Button, an exec at William Morris. \"And the unfortunate news of his father's death brought some authenticity to him, and made him more human to people.\" In August, Woods became the youngest golfer to win his 50th PGA Tour event, so it's a good bet he'll be putting and driving\u2014not to mention pitching\u2014for years to come.\n14) \"THE SPERM\"\n\n DADDY MAKER; AGE: MINUS NINE MONTHS\n\n Yeah, hi. Sperm here. Right\u2014a sperm cell. Just thought I'd, you know, inject myself into this cute little \"power list\" bonanza you're putting together. Think you know something about power? Uh-huh. Think I look harmless, with my squiggly tail and all\u2014nothing more than a microscopic tadpole? Yeah, fuck you. First off, there's a lot of me. As in: up to 300 million just that last time you got your rocks off. (But really, can we upgrade to Kiehl's next time?) Angelina, Gwyneth, Katie, Britney\u2014these chicks want me, all right? Me. (I don't care what those nitwit scientists say, they still can't make a baby without me, and once you got a curtain crawler, pal, I'm screwing with your life in strange and irrevocable ways.) Man, I've got American culture obsessed. One little song-and-dance with Brad and Angelina\u2014boom, here's Shiloh, and People magazine's paying $4 million for a snapshot of my work. Oh, Britney's got a \"bump\"? Yeah, guess what, folks\u2014I made that bump. I am the bump! And how about Suri Cruise? Need I say more? Face it, people pay more attention to what I do than to what Dick Cheney does. I am . . . fascinating. I rule. And look, I don't care if you're gay or straight, when I get that itch to travel, you are always going to do my bidding. Let's be honest, amigo: You are my bitch. You are my slave. That's power.\n16) THE FRAT PACKAGERS\n\n JUDD APATOW, ADAM MCKAY &amp;amp; TODD PHILLIPS\n\n  WRITER-DIRECTOR-PRODUCERS; AGES: 38, 38 &amp;amp; 36\n\n What the Vegas stage did for the Rat Pack, Apatow, McKay, and Phillips are doing for Will Ferrell, the Wilson brothers, and the rest of the Frat Pack: creating hugely profitable zeitgeist-tapping vehicles for this clique of comedic actors. Apatow and McKay's latest collaboration, Talladega Nights, yielded the second-biggest opening ever for an original comedy: $47 million. \"They came in and said, &#145;Will Ferrell. Nascar,'\" says Matt Tolmach, copresident of production at Columbia Pictures. \"Had they said &#145;Will Ferrell. Some other thing,' we'd have done it, too, because we have huge faith in them.\" Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin grossed $109 million, which helps explain why he has three films due in 2007 alone. On Talladega, as on Anchorman, Apatow produced and let the now-in-demand McKay direct. The pair is planning to do yet another Ferrell flick, Step Brothers. Phillips directed Ferrell in the most literal Frat Pack flick, Old School, and is set to bring out a sequel next year. Meanwhile, he signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. and has just released School for Scoundrels. \"Actors love him,\" says Bob Weinstein of the Weinstein Company, which produced Scoundrels. \"Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell. These guys will come back and do cameos. They don't for just anybody. They always do for him.\" In this pack, that is the essence of fraternity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11) THE GOOGLE GUYS\n\n SERGEY BRIN &amp;amp; LARRY PAGE COFOUNDERS; AGES: BOTH 33 LAST YEAR'S RANK: 3\n\n \"This may be blasphemous, but right now Google is God,\" says Rick Munarriz, an analyst with the financial site Motley Fool. \"I have seen it walk on water.\" Never mind the fact it guides our every move online. The company, which is valued at $113 billion, trades at more than $370 a share and blew past estimates to post $2.46 billion in revenue for the quarter ending in June. Do a search on \"ungodly wealth\" and the names of Google's cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page pop right up, as they're worth $16 billion apiece. \"Yet they still have people rooting for them,\" Munarriz says. \"Normally when you become as big as them, people turn on you, but they're an endearing company.\" Such goodwill is born from Brin and Page's preternatural ability to supplement their search engine with simple, efficient technologies, like Google Maps (the best\u2014true dat, double true), easy blogging and messaging applications, and now YouTube-style video-sharing. You don't walk on water by standing still.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15) SALIM AHMED HAMDAN\n\n GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE; AGE: 36\n\n   In *Hamdan* v. *Rumsfeld*, you had a Yemeni driver-for-hire (and his Navy lawyer and a Georgetown law professor) staring down the accumulated might of the Bush administration. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a 36-year-old detainee who had once worked at Osama bin Laden's compound in Afghanistan, challenged the constitutionality of the White House\u2013mandated military tribunals at Guant\u00E1namo Bay all the way to the Supreme Court, where the justices ruled 5 to 3 in his favor. Hamdan's case was ostensibly about the separation of powers, but anyone who heard the administration's backtracking after the decision knows it fundamentally altered the rules of the war on terror. \"It was a powerful rebuke,\" says Ben Wizner, an attorney with the ACLU's National Legal Department. \"It restored the law to its proper place, and the president to his.\"\n\n12) STEPHEN COLBERT HOST\n\n THE COLBERT REPORT; AGE: 42\n\n Last October, The Colbert Report seemed like a sucker's bet for Comedy Central. Stephen Colbert's parody of talk-show gasbag Bill O'Reilly, down to the fatuously cocked eyebrows, could have become an instantly worn-out punch line. Instead, his inventive, on-point satire got him profiled on 60 Minutes (and thrown off Wikipedia, after he embellished his own profile in an on-air prank). The key was his discovery that the vanity of elected officials is eclipsed only by their eagerness to be disgraced on his program. \"It's a risky proposition,\" says Jason Ralston, a partner in political consulting firm Greer Margolis. \"It's a comedy show. If you're dull and all self-important, and you go on expecting to talk about the news, you're making a big mistake. I would be ecstatic if our opponent went on it.\" Witness the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in April, when Colbert was invited to roast a clearly unamused President Bush. (On Bush's approval rating: \"Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty\u2014because 32 percent means it's two-thirds empty.\") In Washington's center ring, speaking \"truthiness\" to power may be a polarizing act, but it never gets old.\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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