- Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009. - Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film "Good Will Hunting", and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films. - Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", … - Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world. - Army Archerd
Armand "Army" Archerd (b. January 13, 1922 in Bronx, NY) was a gossip columnist for "Variety" for over fifty years before retiring his "Just for Variety" column in September 2005. In November 2005 Archerd began blogging for "Variety" and he is currently at work on his memoirs. In 1984, he was given a star on the Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of Mann's Chinese Theater, where he has emceed dozens of movie premieres. - Graham Henry Greene
Graham Greene / Graham Greene , who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April , appeared in 1925. - Martin Amis
Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. His works include such novels as "London Fields" (1989). Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired numerous writers, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. - Will Shortz
Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor. - Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen hasn't been a New York Times columnist for more than a decade, but she'd still fit in quite well on her old paper's op-ed page. In her opinion piece for the October 31 Newsweek, Quindlen takes up the inclination to psychoanalyze President Bush from one current Times columnist, Maureen Dowd , and the Iraq-is-Vietnam argument from another, Frank Rich. - Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975), is an American actress of Scottish and Portuguese descent. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show "The Wonder Years." Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar and sister Crystal McKellar have maintained a friendly competition to see who gets more acting jobs. Indeed, when the actress who would play Winnie had to be chosen, … - Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 29 thriller novels. There are more than 210 million copies of his books in print, and translated into 32 languages. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including "The Osterman Weekend", "The Holcroft Covenant", "The Apocalypse Watch", "The Bourne Identity", … - Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mystic River; Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone; Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; and A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he lives in the Boston area. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - Chuck Klosterman
My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as well read someone who is smart and funny about them, and that person is Klosterman. Although not a metal fan, I loved Fargo Rock City , and found his essays in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs exceedingly funny. - Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American, Jewish author of mystery novels. - Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan (born November 3,1950) is a contemporary humorist, critic and author from Philadelphia. He has written for numerous publications such as Spy Magazine, "Movieline", "The Guardian" and the "New York Times" book review. Queenan describes himself as a "Hatchet Man" and is well known for his acerbic wit and caustic critiques. He has written several books including "Balsamic Dreams", a scathing critique of the Baby Boomers, … - Ray Romano
Raymond Romano is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, American actor and comedian best known for his starring role on the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” His other notable roles include Manfred "Manny" the Mammoth (“"Ice Age", "Ice Age: The Meltdown", "Ice Age: A New Beginning"”) and Handy Harrison ("Welcome to Mooseport"). - Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer", Vowell has authored several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program "This American Life" on Public Radio International. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film "The Incredibles" and a short documentary, … - Dith Pran
Dith Pran was born into a respectable family in 1942. He grew up in Siemp Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia was under the rule of the French, but at the time the Japanese army had invaded it. Although most of Cambodia was poor, he grew up in a family with at least a little bit of money. His father had a high ranking job in the government, and while most had to work, Pran was able to go to school. - Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 - August 20, 2001) was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress. She was born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico. She was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few motion picture roles. She was singled out by the "New York Times" critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. - Craig Claiborne
Craig Claiborne was a restaurant critic, food writer and former food editor of the "New York Times". He was the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography. Over the course of his career, he made many contributions to gastronomy and food writing in the United States. - Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet. After different jobs, he started writing with music magazines, including "Creem" and "Fusion". His second book, "Hellfire", published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, established him as a significant writer on the music scene. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, … - Mel Gussow
Mel Gussow (December 19, 1933 - April 29, 2005) was an influential American theatre critic who wrote for " The New York Times" for thirty-five years. His writing helped further the careers of: actors, such as Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Matthew Broderick and Sigourney Weaver; playwrights, including Sam Shepard, David Mamet, John Guare, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard; and theatre wunderkinds, such as Robert Wilson, Charles Ludlam, Richard Foreman, … - James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. - Dave Winfield
David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951, in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a former Major League Baseball player. He played for 22 seasons and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He played for the San Diego Padres, the New York Yankees, the California Angels, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Minnesota Twins, and the Cleveland Indians. - Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza is an Cuban-American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show", which won him the Theatre World Award. The following year he appeared off-Broadway in "tick, … - Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo (born 1965 in New York City) is an American stand-up comedian, based in New York. Before becoming a comedian, Giraldo, a Regis High School, Columbia University and Harvard Law School graduate, worked as a lawyer. He is known for his distinct delivery and his skills in ranting, never allowing his rhythm to be broken. Giraldo performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan. Giraldo was a regular panelist on "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". - Brian Unger
Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. He was an original contributor to "The Daily Show", from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show "Day to Day" and guest hosts MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication. - Steven McElroy
Steven E. McElroy (born December, 1966) is an American director, actor, teacher and writer. - Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor, also known as Penny Taylor, born January 14 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award winning American actress, known for her film, television and theatre work. She is best known for her roles as role is as Ruth Dunbar in "Bosom Buddies", as Judge Roberta Kittleson in "The Practice" and as Evelyn Harper in "Two and a Half Men". - James Gregory
James Gregory was an American character actor noted for playing brash roles such as McCarthy-like Senator Joseph Iselin in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), the audacious General Ursus in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", and loudmouthed Inspector Luger in "Barney Miller" (TV-Series 1975 - 1982). He also played Dean Martin's spy boss MacDonald, in the "Matt Helm" movie series, and is fondly remembered for his role as Dr. Tristan Adams, … - Juana Molina
Juana Molina (born in 1962 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a singer/songwriter and an actress. Following the military coup in Argentina of 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five. Juana Molina started her career in 1988 as a comedic television actress in Argentina on the show "La Noticia Rebelde". - Anthony Heald
Anthony Heald (born August 25 1944) is an American actor best known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's smarmy jail nemesis in "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon"- and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's "Boston Public". He also had a recurring role as Judge Harvey Cooper on Kelley's "Boston Legal". Heald was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Michigan State University, from which he graduated in 1971. - Brian Bosworth
Brian Keith Bosworth (also referred to as The Boz) (born March 9, 1965 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a former American football player. He was a linebacker for the Oklahoma Sooners (1984-1986) and the Seattle Seahawks (1987-1989). - Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set. - Hilary Howard
Hilary Ren Howard is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for her work in the film "Kaaterskill Falls" (2001). Howard has also written articles for the Travel and Arts and Leisure sections of "The New York Times" - Melissa Russo
Melissa Russo is a television journalist currently working for WNBC-TV in New York. She is currently the solo anchor for the "NewsChannel 4 at 6" and "11"pm newscasts on Saturdays. She joined WNBC-TV as Government Affairs Reporter in September 1998. Before joining NewsChannel 4, she worked as a political reporter for NY1 News where she worked since 1992. In her work as a government affairs reporter, … - Elayne Boosler
Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952 in New York City) is an American comedienne, and hosted the short-lived game show "Balderdash" on PAX (now i). After a brief unsuccessful stint at the University of South Florida, Boosler worked as doorman at a comedy club for three years, and it was there that she met comedian Andy Kaufman, a regular at the club, who convinced her she should do standup comedy. - Thor Halvorssen
Thor Halvorssen (born 1976) is a human rights advocate and film producer with contributions in the field of public policy, public interest advocacy, individual rights and civil liberties, and pro-democracy advocacy in his native Venezuela. Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to protecting liberty in the Americas. He is a First Amendment Scholar at the Commonwealth Foundation of Pennsylvania. - Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, who was renowned for her great beauty. She was born as Edith Madeleine Carroll at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) West Bromwich, England, and she graduated from the University of Birmingham, England. Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in films, …
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