03:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Evening Magazine

The concept is simple: We have asked everyone from Apolo Ohno to Sir Mix-A-Lot to give us a top 5 list and we’ve added a few of our own.

Got a sweet tooth?

Kids and candybars - always a favorite combination.

We asked five very young reporters to help us count down the top 5 selling candy bars in Seattle:

5. Butterfinger
4. Hershey milk chocolate with almonds
3. Hershey milk chocolate bar
2. Reese’s Peanut Buttercups
1. Snickers bar

Having trouble meeting the right person? Here are the worst pickup lines ever:

5. Baby I'm an American Express lover. You shouldn't go home without me.
4. If I could create my own alphabet, I'd put U and I together.
3. Baby, if you were words on a page, you'd be what they call fine print.
2. Your daddy must have been a baker because you sure have a nice set of
buns. 1. Are you Jamaican? ‘cause Ja Makin' me crazy!

Sir Mix-A-Lot, the king of all booties, also has a top-5 bootie list:

5. Beyonce Knowles – and you know why.
4. Almost Joyce – the girl on the pedestal in the “Baby Got Back” video.
3. Vivica A. Fox – sista of al sistas.
2. J-Lo – for obvious reasons.
1. Shakira – incredible woman.

Ciscoe gets animated in the garden.

Who’s got the greenest thumb in the Northwest and a whole lot of other kooky quirks? It’s Ciscoe and here are his top 5 Ciscoeisms:

5. smells so good oh my
4. tweedle life force
3. hi ya ku ( dividing plants)
2. il kabotzkie (squishing bugs)
1. oooh la la

Pat Cashman wants to present his top 5 reactions to monsters:

5. The invisible man
4. The creature of the Black Lagoon
3. The wolfman
2. Frankenstein
1. The Mummy

KING 5 meteorologist Jeff Renner’s top 5 storms:

5. February 1996 flooding that affected extensive areas of Western Washington.
4. Inauguration Day storm of January 1993.
3. Snow storm of December 1996 where we saw snow, ice, flooding and wind. There were fatalities and many buildings collapsed.
2. Stevens Pass avalanche in 1910 (before Jeff’s time). It swept two trains off the tracks, killing 96 people.
1. Columbus Day storm in 1962 that killed 46 people, measuring wind speeds of up to 150 mph.

Forget the aroma of Tacoma - go see its fabulous glass!

Top 5 reasons to visit Tacoma – by SeaGal cheerleader Amber Lancaster:

5. Museum of Glass – where the best exhibits can be found outside the museum.
4. Frisko Freeze – a busy hamburger place and Tacoma landmark since 1950.
3. Ruston Way – a great place to take a stroll on a sunny day.
2. Point Defiance Zoo with its star attraction “ET” – a walrus that was found a starving pup when Alaska oil workers found him in 1982. He now weighs more then 3,500 pounds and is no longer starving.
1. Amber!!!

Bill G. has lots to smile about.

Now for the five richest people of Seattle:

5. Jeff Bezos – the cackling kahuna from Amazon.com, worth $2.5 billion.
4. Craig McCaw – wireless communications pioneer of McCaw Cellular, worth $2.5 billion.
3. Steve Ballmer – Microsoft’s intense CEO, worth $11.1 Billion.
2. Paul Allen – Microsoft co-founder and sports and rock enthusiast, work $20 billion.
1. Bill Gates – Microsoft founder, worth $41 billion.

Here are the five highest-paid Seattle athletes:

5. John Olerud – Mariners first baseman and Seattle native, worth $6,950,000.
4. Rashard Lewis – Sonics forward, worth $7,000,000.
3. Edgar Martinez – Mariner for life, worth $7,086,000.
2. Bret Boone – Mariners second baseman, worth $8,000,000.
1. Ray Allen – Sonics guard, $13,500,000.

Some of those multi-million-dollar athletes have paid us back with great memories. Here are KING 5 Sports Director Paul Silvi’s top 5 Seattle sports moments: 5. Seattle Seahawks beat Miami Dolphins to reach the AFC championship game one win away from the Superbowl.
4. The Huskies take home the national title in the National Championship in 1991.
3. Who can forget their 116 win season in 2001!
2. Edgar Martinez at the Kingdome – the famous double to score Ken Griffey Jr. as the Mariners beat the Yankees in the ALDS in 1995.
1. The Sonics win the NBA Championship in 1979, Lenny Wilkens taking home the title.

Jim Dever tells us the top 5 things to say if our boss catches us sleeping on the job:

5. Oh, they told me at the blood bank this might happen.
4. Can you hear that? There's like a hum coming from my keyboard. Better call engineering.
3. Whew! Guess I left the top off of the white-out. You probably got here just in time.
2. Hey, I wasn't sleeping. I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance.
1. Amen. Sorry, I like to pray before I take on an impossible project.

From “American Heart” to “Zero Tolerance,” hundreds of movies have been shot in and around Seattle. But what are the best Seattle films? Everett Herald critic Robert Horton gives us the top 5:

5. The Parallax View. The opening sequence is done on top of the Space Needle and is probably the most spectacular single sequence ever shot in the city.
4. Trouble in Mind. The director Alan Rudolph actually wanted to create a fictional city, so Seattle is never mentioned. He calls it "Rain City." While they were making it, it was actually unseasonable sunny, so they had to bring in rain machines and fake the whole thing.
3. Cinderella Liberty. This is a film that was shot in Seattle in the 70s. The movie itself is like a time capsule of a former, slightly seedier Seattle that just doesn't exist anymore.
2. Say Anything. It's Seattle seen through the eyes of kind of a regular Seattle teenager played by John Cusack.
1. The Fabulous Baker Boys. It captures a Seattle that is almost totally of the imagination. I wish I lived in this Seattle. It's all sort of jazz bars that seem to exist in a perpetual dusk.

“Say Anything” grossed $21 million for 20th Century Fox, but even in the age of DVD rentals, movies can lose money. Here are the 5 all-time biggest box office bombs:

5. The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen – lost $48 million.
4. Monkeybone – lost $70 million.
3. Cutthroat Island with Geena Davis – with more action than just about any action movie ever. Lost $81 million.
2. Town and Country – lost $90 million.
1. The Adventures of Pluto Nash, with Eddie Murphy – lost $96 million.

Top five? Apolo could only come up with three!

We wanted to check in with Seattle’s golden boy, Apolo Ohno, to find out which women make him say “Oh, yes!” Apolo is one of People Magazine’s most beautiful people in the world. Everywhere he goes, he’s greeted like a rock star. But who rocks his boat? He came up with only three:

3. Shakira
2. Jessica Alba
1. Halle Berry