- Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. He has directed over 21 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films.<small> </small> Sydney Pollack is best known for directing films "Out of Africa" (Academy Awards, 1985), "Tootsie" (1982), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), … - Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich /Milica Jovović, Ukrainian: Мілла Йовович/Mіlla Jovovič (Born Milica Nataša Jovović on December 17, 1975)) is an Ukrainian-born supermodel, actress, musician, singer, and fashion designer. Jovovich has been described by Paul W.S. Anderson, director of her film "Resident Evil", … - Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield (b. New York City, June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. He is a Senior Political Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. - Ze Frank
Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972, first name, rhymes with "say") is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. - Celeste Thorson
Celeste Thorson is an American actress, model, photographer and writer. She is best known for her role as a host in the Destination X Hawaii TV Series and modeling campaigns for Body Glove, Nokia, Yahoo!, BIOQUE, and Paul Mitchell. A political activist Thorson has worked with the Save the Children, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Public Interest Research Group, and Sierra Club. Along with modeling she's also appeared in several music videos including the Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down. - Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 - September 9, 2007) was an Italian spinto tenor; one of the best known vocal performers in contemporary times, in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. He was born in Modena (Emilia-Romagna), in northern Italy. - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket". - Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series "Entourage". - Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can". - David Halberstam
David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. - Bill Geist
Bill Geist has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since he joined CBS News in 1987. He chronicles some of the quirkiest people and places in America for the broadcast. - Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. - Russ Mitchell
Russ Mitchell is the news anchor of "The Early Show" on CBS. He became the first official news anchor of the show in December 2006. He is also anchor of the Sunday edition of "CBS Evening News" and is the substitute anchor for Katie Couric on the weekday version of the CBS Evening News. On January 6 2007, he left the co-anchoring duties on The "Saturday Early Show", a position held since the show's launch in September 1997. - Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers, but his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, "Moby-Dick" - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, … - Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli (born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 "for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification". Born in Nahalal, Israel, Pnueli received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. - Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood (born Charles Osgood Wood, III on January 8, 1933) is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, "The Osgood File", has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. Osgood was born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1954 with a major in economics. While at Fordham, Osgood worked at the university's FM radio station WFUV. - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Taye Diggs
Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs on January 2, 1971 in Rochester, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. - Jason Strudwick
Jason Strudwick (born July 17, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently who currently plays for the New York Rangers. He is a cousin of the NHL players Scott and Rob Niedermayer. Strudwick was drafted in the 3rd round, 63rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played his first NHL game with the Islanders against the Hartford Whalers on March 30, 1996. - Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel (b. 26 October 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker born in Brooklyn, New York City. - Donna Karan
Donna Karan is a fashion designer and the creator of the DKNY (Donna Karan New York) clothing label. She was born Donna Ivy Faske on October 9, 1948 in Forest Hills, New York. She grew up in Hewlett, Long Island with her step-father who was a tailor and her mother who was a model. - Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", … - Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in films during the 1990s, appearing in several supporting performances, and came to fame in the early 2000s, after his roles in the well-received films "American Splendor", "Sideways" and "Cinderella Man". - James Caan
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. He is known for his Academy Award nominated role of Sonny Corleone in 1972's "The Godfather" and for his role as Ed Deline on "Las Vegas". - Petr Zuman
Petr Zuman, Hayati Celik, Ph.D. (Oximes – electroreduction, diprotonation, imine formation, uncommon mechanisms of reduction, hydration), and Eliona Kulla (Master Student - Addition of water and hydroxide ions to orthophthalaldehydes)). - Jeffrey Ascherman
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and the Site Chief for the Division of Plastic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where he has been an active member of the full time-faculty since 1995. Dr. Ascherman graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a B.A. degree in Engineering Sciences, … - S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman (February 1 1904 - October 17 1979), was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for "The New Yorker magazine". - Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960) is an influential British philosopher, working in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, literature, ethics and politics. - Don Swaim
Don Swaim (born 1936) is an American journalist and broadcaster. Born in Kansas, Swaim earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Ohio University and worked as editor, writer, producer, reporter, and anchor at WCBS (AM) in New York and CBS in Baltimore. His radio program on books and authors, "Book Beat", was nationally syndicated by the CBS Radio Stations News Service. On that program, he interviewed hundreds of major authors of the 1980's, … - Brigitte L. Nacos
Brigitte L. Nacos is a part time Lecturer in political science at Columbia University. She has written on the news media, the politics of Germany, and terrorism. She is a joint author of a paper which was delivered at the Summer 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association; the paper addresses the correlation between increases in terrorism alert levels and the popularity of U.S. President George W. Bush. - Toni Lydman
Toni Lydman (born September 25, 1977 in Lahti) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player. He has played in the NHL for the Calgary Flames and currently the Buffalo Sabres. Lydman was drafted by Calgary in the 4th round, 89th overall at the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. He spent 4 seasons playing in Finland's SM-liiga for Tappara in Tampere and HIFK in Helsinki before making his NHL debut for the Flames in the 2000-01 NHL season. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - Asma Barlas
Asma Barlas is an academic educated in Pakistan and the United States. She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity of the department of politics at Ithaca College, New York. Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics, and women and gender. - Nathan Paetsch
Nathan Paetsch (born March 30, 1983 in LeRoy, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. He has own sister named Vanessa, and his dad Rick is an electrcian at a Potash Mine, while his mother, Brenda works at a bank giving financial help to people. He was originally drafted in the 2nd round, 52nd overall, in 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals. - Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction". - Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American stand-up comedian. - Jeffrey Ross
Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) is a stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor & director who currently provides the voice for the beagle Buddy in the MTV2 Sic'emation animated satire program that he created "Where My Dogs At?" As a stand-up comic, Ross has appeared TV shows like "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", …
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