- Christina Onassis
Christina Onassis was the daughter of the billionaire Aristotle Onassis and Athina Livanos. She also had one brother, Alexandros Onassis (1948-1973) who died in a plane crash in Athens. Born in New York City, she was an awkward-looking child. At the age of seventeen, she had plastic surgery to shrink her nose and remove the dark rings under her eyes. Christina had a stormy relationship with her stepmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the two never really got along. - Eva Amurri
Eva Maria Livia Amurri (born March 15, 1985) is an American actress. Amurri was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon (who is of Italian and Welsh/Irish/English descent), who never married. She had a minor role in the 2002 film "The Banger Sisters", in which her mother starred, … - Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine began her career at the early age of 6 months, when she was featured as theJohnson & Johnson Baby. At age six, she appeared in a Max Factor campaign, alongwith Christina Ferrara . Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashionphotographer, Francesco Scavullo , who subsequently included her in his self-entitledbook ''Scavullo's Women.' ' At the age of 12, Yasmine was cast opposite Buddy Hackettin the feature film Hey Babe. - Johnny Thunders
Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr (July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991), was a rock and roll guitarist and singer, first with the New York Dolls, the proto-punk glam rockers of the early '70s. During the late '70s, he was a familiar figure on the New York punk scene, both with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. His screeching, penetrating guitar sound is distinctive and highly influential in punk rock music. - Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and socialite. She is best known for her portrayal of hip young detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show "The Mod Squad" and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama "Twin Peaks". - Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005) was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. There are those who were shocked he was not given the Grand Master Award instead. - Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the Piano Concerto and Drala, two major commissions from the Boston Symphony, with whom he still enjoys a fruitful collaboration. Of profound influence on his music has been his practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1980 many of his works have been inspired by Buddhist themes such as King Gesar (1991) and the opera Ashoka's Dream (1997), both from a series of works based on the lives of enlightened rulers. - Kadeem Hardison
Kadeem Hardison (born Kadeem Harlowitz on July 24, 1965 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States) is an actor, best known for portraying Dwayne Wayne on the "Cosby Show" spin-off "A Different World" and playing Marlon Wayans' brother in the basketball comedy, "The Sixth Man". From 17 November 1997 - 2000 he was married to Chante Moore and they a have daughter Sophia Hardison (born 1996). - Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970), is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 - February 20,1980) was a child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, born of his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. She was Lee's only child. Alice led an unconventional and controversial life, and despite her love for her legendary father, she proved to be almost nothing like him. Her shakey marriage with power Ohio representative Nicholas Longworth drew the attention of many in Washington. - Bill Charlap
William Morrison Charlap is a jazz pianist born October 15, 1966 in New York City. He comes from a musical background: his mother, Sandy Stewart, is a singer and his father was Broadway composer Mark "Moose" Charlap. He has recorded and accompanied with his mother. He is related to Dick Hyman. Bill Charlap began playing piano at age three. He later studied classical music, but remained most interested in jazz. He went on to work with Gerry Mulligan, Benny Carter, … - Greg Lauren
Greg Lauren is an American actor and painter. The nephew of renowned fashion designer Ralph Lauren, he portrayed "Brett Nelson" on "The Young and the Restless" and has appeared in such films as "Friends & Family", "The Wedding Planner", and "Boogie Nights". A successful painter, Lauren's nudes command up to $15,000 and have been bought by such celebs as Renée Zellweger, Demi Moore, Ben Stiller, and Cuba Gooding Jr.. - Jim Steinman
Jim Steinman (born November 1, 1947 in New York, New York) is an American rock and musical theater composer. He is notable for having written most of Meat Loaf's hit songs and hits for many other musical artists. His biggest musical successes are the ... - Julian Casablancas
Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is the vocalist and songwriter of the band The Strokes. - John McGiver
John Irwin McGiver (November 5 1913, New York City - d. September 9 1975, West Fulton, New York) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. He was known for his performances as the religious fanatic Mr. O'Daniel in the film "Midnight Cowboy"; as the kindly Tiffany's salesman in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; as the ill-fated, … - Red Buttons
Red Buttons (February 5 1919 - July 13 2006) was the stage name of American comedian and actor Aaron Chwatt. He won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Airman Joe Kelly in "Sayonara" (1957), a rare dramatic role. - Hortense Calisher
Hortense Calisher (born New York City December 20, 1911) is an American writer of fiction. A graduate of Barnard College (1932), she was the daughter of a young German immigrant and an older father from a Southern family she described as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time" ("Tattoo for a Slave"), she has involved her closely investigated, … - Rory Culkin
Rory Hugh Culkin (born July 21, 1989) is an American actor. - Mika Brzezinski
Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of "Morning Joe" and an MSNBC anchor. Brzezinski also reports on "NBC Nightly News" and is an alternating news anchor for "Weekend Today." Prior to joining MSNBC in January 2007, Mika Brzezinski was an anchor of the "CBS Evening News Weekend Edition" and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes." - John Strasberg
John Strasberg (b. May 20, 1941 in New York) is the son of Lee and Paula Strasberg of the Actors Studio, and brother of Susan Strasberg. He has launched productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O'Neill, Odets and Aristophanes. He teaches the Organic Creative Process, which is said to go Stanislavsky. He has written a book, "Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity". - Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924 in New York City, New York) is an American artist, actress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. - Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman (born 1954) is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Reunion Island. - Ellen Geer
Ellen Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, screenwriter, film director and theatre director. She is the daughter of Herta Ware and Will Geer.She is currently married to children's musician Peter Alsop, and was previously married to actor Ed Flanders. Her daughters are Megan and Willow Geer-Alsop. Geer has enjoyed a long, distinguished career in film and television. - Whip Hubley
Whip Hubley (born August 28, 1958) is an American actor, also known as for playing Mischa in the 1987 film "Russkies", and playing Hollywood in "Top Gun" which starred Tom Cruise. - Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums since Slapp Happy split up. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who are respectively, a children's book author and illustrator. Blegvad collaborated with bassist John Greaves (recording "Kew. - Bebel Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro. - Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author. Norman Spinrad, born in New York City, is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris. He married fellow novelist N. Lee Wood in 1990; they divorced in 2005. They had no children. - Adam Mesh
Adam Mesh was the runner-up on the NBC reality television show "Average Joe". He then was the star of his own show, "Average Joe: Adam Returns", where he got to go on dates and then send women home. In the end, he chose Samantha Trenk. Part way through the show, a bus arrived with some attractive women in bikinis. He asked the producers to send them home, which they promptly agreed to do. Mesh married his girlfriend Jessica Malca on May 28, … - Ruth Reichl
Editor-in-chief of "Gourmet" magazine. - Kath Soucie
Kath Soucie (born February 20, 1967 in New York City) (sometimes credited as "Souci or Kath E. Soucie") is an American voice actress, perhaps best known for her work as the voice of the twins Phil and Lil DeVille and their mother Betty in the popular animated series "Rugrats" (and its subsequent spinoff "All Grown Up!"), her voicing of Kanga in the Walt Disney series of Winnie The Pooh projects, … - Nick Valensi
Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi, January 16 1981, in New York) is a guitarist for the New York based rock band, The Strokes. - Connor Paolo
Connor Paolo (born July 11, 1990) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the adolescent Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's "Alexander". Paolo was born in New York City, New York. His father is a writer and his mother is a musician. As of 2006, he attends the professional performing arts school featured in the movie "Fame". He began taking acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and now studies with Peggy Lewis. - Josh Saviano
Joshua D. "Josh" Saviano (born March 31, 1976) is an American actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the situation comedy, "The Wonder Years". His role in "The Wonder Years" was one of his few television or movie roles. Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie "The Wrong Guys" in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie "Camp Cucamonga" in 1990. - Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild is the author of six books, many of them on human rights issues. His latest, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. His Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, collects some of the articles he has done in several decades of writing for various newspapers and magazines. - Vincent Laresca
Vincent Lasresca (born January 21, 1974) is an American actor. Laresca first appeared in film in 1992, in the movie "Juice" as Radames. Since then, he has appeared in many popular films, including "The Devil's Advocate", "The Aviator", "Empire", "Coach Carter", "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" and "Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet". He has also had major supporting roles on "24" and "Weeds". - Tony Azito
Tony Azito (July 18, 1948 - May 26, 1995) was an American eccentric dancer and character actor. Azito was part of Juilliard's famous "Group I," the first students admitted to the drama program administered by John Houseman; his fellow students included Patti LuPone. He soon fell under the influence of choreographer Anna Sokolow and began studying modern dance - although, at six-foot-three (190 cm), Azito was an unusual candidate for dance training. - Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol (born October 4, 1924) is an award-winning writer living in Miami, Florida. He is best known for his children's books, especially the Encyclopedia Brown series. Born in New York City, Sobol is the son of Ira J. and Ida (Gelula) Sobol. Donald attended the NYC Ethical Culture Fieldston School and graduated from the Fieldston School in New York City in 1942. Sobol served with the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and served in the Pacific Theater. - Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Jordan Walker-Pearlman (born 24 June 1967, New York City) is an American film director. He is best known for his movie "The Visit". His movie "Constellation" is due for release in February 2007. Both movies star Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams and Rae Dawn Chong. He is the nephew of Gene Wilder. - Perrey Reeves
Perrey Reeves (born in New York City, New York) is an American film and television actress. Although Reeves was born in New York, she was raised in the countryside of New Hampshire by her academic parents, who preferred not to own a television but rather submerge their children in the vast realms of literature. Thus, her educational background ranged from years abroad in France and Italy to the Ivy League colleges of the United States. - Jon Cypher
Jon Cypher is an American actor born in New York City, January 13, 1932. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1949.
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