Vanity Fair's 'Hollywood's Top 40' proves that mediocrity rules the day. Vanity Fair has just released its annual Hollywood’s Top 40, a salary breakdown that is bound to make you reconsider your career options. Why work at being a good teacher, lawyer, bricklayer, baker or whatever it is you do when you could be a so-so actor and still earn tens of millions of dollars?

While some of the names on Vanity Fair’s Top 40 are expected – major talents James Cameron, Johnny Depp, Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan topped the list—others, like Owen Wilson and Katherine Heigl, who also made 2009’s golden pay roll, seem less deserving.  And while it may not be very productive to bitch about the fluorescent green grass on the other side of the Hollywood fence, it is fun.

Here are 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD’S TOP 40:

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We’ve come a long way since Brooke Shields’s mom sold pictures of her 10-year old daughter to Playboy. Magazines can no longer get away with asking a child what it means to be good in bed, and I am as thankful for that as I am for young Shields’s answer: "When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup—that's good in bed."

In the end, Brooke Shields turned out alright, and I hope that young Dakota Fanning, who is the beneficiary of much stronger legal protections, will too. She recently starred in The Runaways, and although it’s old news here, the film is making its premiere in England this Friday, and is regenerating press about Fanning’s on-screen kiss with co-star Kristen Stewart. Stewart recently spoke with England’s Stylist magazine, explaining that the famous kiss only took “like 5 seconds in the movie” and appeared “innocent”, “natural and impulsive.”

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