coming in at number 5 is actor tom hanks who reportedly made 35 million between may of last year andr. actor will smith came in fourth raking in $36 million and actor adam sandler came in third bringing in $40 million. so who are the highest paid actors? you're going to have to wait until after the break. >>> forbes magazine has released its annual list of highest earning act fors between may 2010 and may 2011. before the break, we found out the bottom three on the list, adam sandler, will smith, tom hanks, so who are the top two highest earning male actors in hollywood? johnny dep comes in at number two earning $50 million and leonardo dicaprio, pulling in a cool $77 million. looking for an action packed weekend, you may want to head to the movies and check out "rise of planet of the apes." first let's talk about "the romantic comedy" where justin bateman and ryan reynolds switch lives. one is married, one is enjoying the single life. >> i envy your life. i envy yours. >> i wish i had your life. >> i wish i had your life. >> i'm in your apartment. open the door. >> i knew it. >> you

. >> as for tom hanks, we're proud that they are oakland products. >> that is crazy. yay for the locals. >>> thanks for joining us tonight at 5:00. brian williams is next. >> we'll see you at 6:00.

tom hanks once famously said, there's no crying in baseball. but sergeant chris whiteman's emotions got the best of him when he surprised his family during a minor league game. his wife and twin daughters rushed to embrace the returning afghanistan vet back from his third tour of duty. win or lose, the middle of the game surprise gave fans plenty to cheer for. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today" just the first stop of your day on your nbc station. >>> you can call it soccer or football. one youngster in spain is the sport's boy wonder. he has reportedly scored a lucrative contract with one of the most popular teams at just 7 years old. having a soccer coach for a dad probably helped, but he does appear to be a natural. for now he's just training. he's going to have to wait until he's 16 to play professionally on the squad. >>> just when you thought lady gaga broke all fashion barriers, one designer in japan has blown them up. she turns latex balloons into couture creations. while a balloon costs just 10 cents, her evening wear can run up

and sandra bullock, clint eastwood, and tom hanks also made the list. least popular figures include paris hilton and charlie sheen. >>> when we come back here tonight, a hollywood legend that hits the kind of milestone that makes people wonder where the time has gone. >>> finally here tonight, for people of a certain age, and let's just say it here, mostly for women of a certain age, here's a reminder that time indeed is passing quickly. today is robert redford's 75th birthday. in honor of the big day, life.com released these never before seen photos from a 1970 cover story. and beginning with this bathrobe, while i don't know robert redford, for his sake, let's just remember these are period photos, 1970s, people actually looked this way, people wore so-called bell bottoms, they were early examples of skinny jeans. and you used to be able to openly tow children behind snowmobiles without safely concerns. other note photos show redford literally taking a cat nap and hailing a cab in new york like midnight cowboy. you can see more of them on the website

rounding out the top five, two-time oscar winner tom hanks.ber four has been preoccupied launching the careers of his mega star kids. will smith earns a cool $36 million. and number three, hollywood's third highest earners, funnyman, "just go with it" star, adam sandler. so which tinseltown heavyweights made the most moolah last year? ? are you wondering about your options? with over 30 years of medicare experience, unitedhealthcare medicare solutions can help. just give us a call. the annual enrollment period to switch your medicare coverage is earlier this year, from october 15th to december 7th, so now is a great time to review your situation. i'm looking for help paying for my prescriptions. [ male announcer ] that's a part d prescription drug plan. choose a stand-alone plan, or combine it with a medicare supplement plan. it's all in our free guide. is there a single plan that combines medicare parts a & b with medical and drug coverage? [ male announcer ] absolutely. many medicare advantage plans can give you doctor, hospital and prescrip

also scoring near the top, tom hanks, sandra bullock and morgan freeman. the most unpopular would be paris hilton, charlie sheen, and our former governor arnold schwarzenegger. a big game for bragging rights this weekend. we have the 49ers, we have the raiders and san francisco mayor ed lee says if the 49ers win, he is going to send mayor jean quan some dungeness crab and ghirardelli chocolate. >> if san francisco wins? if oakland winds mayor quan will send him coffee, chocolates and wine. we have a special broadcast of that football game tomorrow at 4:30 on channel 5, kickoff at 5:00. excited fan here at the desk. >> i'm kind of leaning towards the 49ers. i think we have a raider fan here, too. >>> we'll be right back. hi, we're looking to save some money on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's

tom hanks was arguing his big bookstore would not put her out of business, but of course it did. i and my partner live in constant trepidation that this will someday be our fate. i understand that everyone wants to see a large space on a big avenue rented out, but when the space is leased by a large chain that competes with small independents, i believe everyone loses. the ripple effect the big box score has into smaller neighborhood affects the character of those neighborhoods. cesar chavez is similar in that is why, loud and does not have much personality. i could see why supervisors would not give much thought into which big business is complete. but the nearby neighborhoods and no longer have an independent pharmacy, small office supply shop, or in the case of 24 street, are in danger of losing its only family-owned hardware store. if a nationwide pet store or bookstore chain came in, that would be it for us. i've seen it happen in manhattan. the neighborhoods take on a bland repetitiveness and you could be anywhere. people come to san francisco because they find businesses t

they had tom hanks say and he said we have a two last questions. when i think of austin ought to retire now you are a successful businessman but many of them can really find their place in life after the fate i retired from active duty a lot of them suffered finical depression alcoholism why is that why is it that when awesomeness retire he can always find the right way on earth. well i think it's very similar to that old saying that after you've been perry what else is there you know. it is it's a high point in everybody's life. where the high point stops and you go back to living a double life again a lot of times it's hard to recover because many people say yes i understand what you did but what can you do for me now and so. to be successful you have to always look forward not to look backward yes i went to the moon the price i paid for space flights that was of the past what am i doing now what how can i set aside my life and enjoy life there are seasons and so a lot of us of course travel to look at the earth and we see that so far what do you

sandler with $40 million, will smith with $36 million, tom hanks with $35 million, and bill kirns karinsu on the list? >> no females on the list. >> kind of upsetting. j. lo, $20 million for "american idol." >> she's at least close. >> where was brad pitt? >> he has a lot of kids to take care of. >> this is "first look" on ms c msnbc. "way too early" starts right now. >>> after months of battle, the house passes a bill with bipartisan support to overt a crisis over the debt ceiling. with the senate expected to do the same today with no time to spare on this august 2nd, the day that's been circled on the calendar for months. the question is, with the politics of the debate behind us for the moment, what do the cuts in the bill mean for the health of the united states economy? >>> the surprise star of the day, arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords who slipped in to washington to cast her first vote since she was shot through the head less than accept months aseven months ago. the question is, remember all the talk about civility some. >>> and progressives grapple

and then blew out the candles on the cake and the walls of the white house with stevie wonder and tom hanksnd a listers from hollywood. some commentors gave the president a hard time about lavish parties at a time when 16 million americans are not without job. i congratulate the president for a 50th birthday. for his obvious effort to really stimulus our struggling economy. because now hopefully none of the guests flew in a corporate jet to attend the gathering because i know if they did, he would give them a stern lecture of as to how that would be x. no doubt at organic sandwichs and had tofu for dessert. he created yobs for those prepared the birthday meal and set up the dinner and carefully polished each plate since that cost more than an average american makes. i am glad the president had such a large time with his friend and they think they all ought to pay more in taxes. they pass a hat that one of the hip pals wore and they opened their checkbooks to give more to our ever responsible federal government so the fine folks party can bail out our government. i am sure that happened. let

tom hanks and his wife rita wilson basketball star charles barkley grant hill actor hill harper and oprah winfrey's best friend gayle king r. and b. singer live d.c. jazz musician herbie hancock and stevie wonder performed in the east room the drudge report out of this morning as it was supposed to be a headline we would be shocked about hip hop in east room like that never happened under clinton oh yeah and this guy was there george bush is still in charge and nobody gives less of a then george bush you think you don't give a bush don't give us nobody gives less of us than george bush if you was hanging from a cliff getting ready to fall to your death that's right and bush was at the top of the cliff and all you needed was a to save your life and bush had a pocket full six he wouldn't give you one we would have played the clip from this and we even had a ready with all the beautiful f. bombs leap out but. if you h.b.o. so for all the wonderful criticism we enjoyed from chris rock during the bush years surely he wouldn't just stroll into the white house for a little schmoozing without mak

and then blew out the candles on the cake and the walls of the white house with stevie wonder and tom hanksnd a listers from hollywood. some commentors gave the president a hard time about lavish parties at a time when 16 million americans are not without job. i congratulate the president for a 50th birthday. for his obvious effort to really stimulus our struggling economy. because now hopefully none of the guests flew in a corporate jet to attend the gathering because i know if they did, he would give them a stern lecture of as to how that would be x. no doubt at organic sandwichs and had tofu for dessert. he created yobs for those prepared the birthday meal and set up the dinner and carefully polished each plate since that cost more than an average american makes. i am glad the president had such a large time with his friend and they think they all ought to pay more in taxes. they pass a hat that one of the hip pals wore and they opened their checkbooks to give more to our ever responsible federal government so the fine folks party can bail out our government. i am sure that happened. let

candles on the cake in the walls of the white house with a star-studded bash featuring stevie wonder, tom hanksnd a lot of other a lifters from hollywood. given the hard times, and such parties at a time when 16 american americans don't have jobs, but not me. i want to congratulate the president and not just for his 50th birthday. i want to congratulate him for his obvious efforts to really stimulate our sluggish economy. because now hopefully none of the presidents guests flew in a private corporate jet to attend it because i know if they did he would give them a stern lecture how evil that would be. i'm sure they all came in electric sparse high-speed trains, and no doubt they all eight arugala sandwiches and had tofu for dessert. but he did create a lot of jobs for those who set up the chairs, and those who polished the plates since the one plate cost more than the average american makes in a year. i'm glad the president had such a large time with his friends. by the way, they think that they all ought to pay more in taxes. so hopefully while they were gathered they passed a great ole big ha

. >> i'm watching all these huge stars like barbara streisand and tom hanks and so on bustling to getm and kate. it was quite fascinating to observe. >> that is so funny. that is exactly what happened when i was at the obama inauguration was that you saw these extremely famous people just falling all over each other to get to see the president and meet the president so you had this list of people and it was incredible to see them become groupies. pretty incredible. >> who do you get star struck by? who have you been star struck by? >> star struck. who was i star struck by? that is a weird term. i would say i was, i don't really get star struck unless i have a tremendous amount of respect for someone. >> you are a massive beatles fan right? paul mccartney? >> yeah. no i haven't met him and if i had i would be a bit star struck but it's a strange way to look at it because i would be just kind of enamored because he was so important to me growing up that i would be kind of blown away. but star struck, you know. >> your whole family were beatles fans? >> yeah. i was raised on the beatles.

some of the big names in attendance included celebs like jay-z, tom hanks, stevie wonder, chris rocknd oprah. also in attendance, the president's former chief of staff rahm emanuel who is now the chicago mayor and house minority leader nancy pelosi and secretary of state hillary clinton. >>> and last night, an iowa 2012 republican candidate rick santorum spoke to more than 200 guests and mid-speech he was cut off when the power went out. he broke into song singing "strangers in the night." here's that moment. >> [ inaudible ]. ♪ strangers in the night >> those are the things we thought you should know. say i'm. i type in e-n-g... and he gives me a variety of options. would you like to have a look at a map, my lad? ah, why not? shall we check on the status of your knighthood? yes. again? yes, again, please! thank you. with my digital manservant, i'll never be homesick again. would you like me to put the kettle on, sir? no, i'd like you to get rid of that ostrich. it's been here a month. [ male announcer ] the new hp touchpad. get it now for $100 off, starting at $399.99. especially be

when you think of nasa, you think of the '60s, tom hanks in a silver capsule. this let me get inside nasa today. thad roberts out of the blue contacted me, he had just gotten out of prison, he was on probation. it was weird, i never meant someone who had spent a decade in prison. i arraigned to meet him in the hotel lobby. he was the nicest, charismatic, smart guy that did something stupid. >> the nicest fella you had met. >> i was amazed. no one had written. one article in the "l.a. times "but i had not seen anything about it. i wouldn't believe it. the first thing i did was i filed a freedom of information act with the fbi to get the fbi file. which is thousands of pages. i mean i even got when the fbi agents took him down, they were wearing wires. i got the transcript. i first he says, if you are wearing a wire, i'm screwed. that's on tape. so it was wild. it was about a year long interviewing everybody i could. >> i see. so there's one section in the book which i think is just great too, where there's the correspondence between thad who's going by the name

julia roberts and tom hanks flopped in "larry crowne" and jim carrey flopped in "mr.d movie stars but also in the right movie. the concept needs to be key and the concept with "cowboys and aliens" was a little bit fuzzy. "bridesmaids" didn't have huge movie stars but its concept was crystal clear, looking at the title and looking at the poster and commercials. >> "the hangover 2" ensemble casts. >> thank you. >>> 30 years of mtv, coming up next. ♪ video killed the radio storm >> starting with the very first video, changed the music and ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> mtv turns 30 today. we asked some people who have been involved since the beginning to tell us why it became such a mover and a shaker. ♪ ♪ video killed the radio storm >> video didn't kill the radio storm. mtv made radio bigger and better. >> it was the first national radio station. before mtv chances are you didn't know what a major star looked like. madison square garden they were little ants on the stage. >> where would the world have seen the duran, dur ans, bon jovis, guns n roses, christina aguillera, madonna.

tom hanks is the second most trusted. yeah, i think i would trust him.e. with 69% of the vote. she is the golden girl. did you notice, only one of those people is under the age of 40? just saying. they've earned our trust, clearly. someone i know i trust, i'm sure many of you trust, wolf blitzer. always at the helm "the situation room dwoechlt i have mad trust for you. >> i remember you did that little item from cnna atocrasy. >> i think it's odd. freezing oreos. . >> you have to be careful having a frozen oreo at night. they could be really tough. you could break a tooth if you're not careful. you've got to work that or owe a little bit. and make sure it melts just a little bit so that you don't have any problems. >> and this is your -- i'm wolf blitzer i eat this every night on the campaign trail sning. >> no, no, my whole life. well, not my whole life. recent years. >> who knew. i love getting little things out of you each and every year. >> have you gone to the eatocracy website? >> of course i have. it's wonderful. >> we're talking about the walkout

. >> reporter: from jaime foxx to fellow actors george clooney, tom hanks and will ferrell. hollywood elite and much of high-tech. >> good to be back in san francisco. >> reporter: in the bay area, president sold out a $35,000 a plate dinner hosted by google executives. >> our work is not finished. >> reporter: gay rights, green energy, cutting troops, obama is preaching to the choir in much of california yet many liberals are not happy. >> i think there are folks right now who are disappointed with the president. >> a lot of liberals are not excited at all. are unhappy with his performance. >> reporter: will that disappointment discourage big-money democrats, powerful donors known as bundlers? >> a bumped letter is -- bundler is somebody who collects checks from other people. >> reporter: hollywood bundlers led by david geffen and jeffrey katzenburg from dreamworks topped $4 million in 2008. topped by wall street fat cats who raised ten million and 15 million from lawyers. >> what is for them access to the administration. access is worth lots of money. >> reporter: this yea

stiff competition, rounding out the top five, denzel washington, sandra bullock, clint eastwood and tom hanksshe was america's least popular celebrity. >>> still to come this morning, sticker shock for back-to-school shoppers. retailers are, yep, raising prices and they're trying to hide it from you. we'll tell you how. >>> has america's tea party movement hit the wall? you're watching "american morning." it's 45 minutes past the hour. [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. whether it can be done safely and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement. most wells are over a mile and a half deep so there's a tremendous amount of protective rock between the fracking operation and the groundwater. natural gas is critical to our future. at exxonmobil we recognize the challenges and how important it is to do this right. it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse, who cuddle up with y

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. >> tom: here's some other things we're watching for next week. our friday market monitor guest is hank smith, chief investment officer of haverford investments. we'll also see the july reports on durable goods and new home sales. monday, with local municipalities in california and florida recently downgraded, we'll talk muni-bonds with marilyn cohen c.e.o. of envision capital management. >> susie: royal dutch shell has finally managed to stop an oil leak in the north sea off the coast of scotland. more than 200-tons of crude oil are believed to have spilled in the week since an underwater pipe burst on one of its oil platforms. shell says another 600 tons of oil remain stuck in the pipe and removing that oil is the next step in the clean up process. >> tom: uncle sam will soon be back in the business of selling permits for oil exploration. the interior department said today it will hold an auction this december for tens of millions of acres in the western gulf of mexico. its the first permit auction since b.p.'s massive gulf oil spill last year. that disaster led to a flood new regulat

tom coburn is holding a town hall. we will cover that. representative john lewis, hank johnson, maxine waters, al green, donna christensen, and others. at the atlanta technical college. go to c-span.org to find out when we are going to be airing those and when you can watch them. back to your phone calls after the ames straw poll on saturday. rick perry leads the pack. the gop. what do you make of the first pole? caller: it looks like it will be an interesting c conversation. michele bachmann, the front runner. tim pawlenty, a close second. it is what you will make of the entire outcome, that is still a tossup for anyone. host: granger, indiana, what do you think, bob? caller: i think michele bachmann and rick perry would be good. i kind of resent the way you are using politico so much now. it is a radical left organization along the lines of msnbc. you're starting to feel like msnbc on c-span. host: we use a lot of publications that cover congress and the white house, not just politico. vice-president joe biden is visiting china, trying to seek a window on the vice pre