- Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman (born 24 February 1959) is a film critic for "Entertainment Weekly," a position he has held since the magazine's launch in 1990. From 1981-89, he worked at the "Boston Phoenix". He was recommended for the position by Pauline Kael, … - Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January, 1974) is a Welsh-born, English method actor who is known for his roles in the films "American Psycho", "Equilibrium", "Batman Begins" and "The Prestige", among others. Bale is also known for his versatility as an actor, including mimicking nearly any English-language-based accent, … - Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson is a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Born and raised in New York City, she’s a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer and Wired. She served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January, 2005 to March, 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of Premiere, from 1996 to 2002. - Brian Grazer
Brian Grazer (born July 12, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an Oscar and Emmy Award-winning American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard. Together they have produced many acclaimed films, including "A Beautiful Mind" and "Apollo 13". Grazer also produced the 1994 film "The Cowboy Way", the live-action version of the holiday classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000), … - Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications. - Mick Lasalle
Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is the film critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the author of two books on pre-code Hollywood. As of August 2006, he has written over 1370 reviews ; he has been podcasting his film reviews since September 2005. He is the author of "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood", a history/critical study of the actresses who worked during the pre-censorship "pre"-Code" era of 1929-1934. - Liane Bonin
Liane Bonin is an American journalist, author, radio producer, and produced screenwriter. She has written articles that appeared in "Entertainment Weekly", "The Los Angeles Times", "Mademoiselle", "Daily Variety", "People", "Teen People", "The Hollywood Reporter", "Maxim" and others. Bonin graduated with a degree in filmic writing. Her young adult novel series "Fame Unlimited" was bought by NAL/Jam, … - A.J. Jacobs
Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs is an American journalist and author. Jacobs was born in New York City to lawyer Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel. He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs studied philosophy at Brown University. Jacobs is best known for having read all 32 volumes of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", and wrote about his experiences in his humorous book, … - Alanna Nash
Alanna Nash is an American journalist and biographer. Nash holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of several acclaimed books. A feature writer for "The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly," and "USA Weekend", Nash was named the Society of Professional Journalists' National Member of the Year in 1994. - Mike D'Angelo
Mike D'Angelo (born 1968) is a very nice man and the chief film critic for Esquire magazine. He regularly contributes film reviews to "Las Vegas Weekly" and Nerve, and maintains a personal website, The Man Who Viewed Too Much. One of the first notable online film critics, D'Angelo created his site and began self-publishing short reviews in August 1995. - Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain"). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. - Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has also won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics; for over the last seven years, Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic sales chart. Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, … - Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman (born 1969-06-26) is an American writer, notably the author of the novels "Codex" and "Warp." He also contributes regularly to "Time" as a book reviewer, although he sometimes explores more esoteric topics. He has written for "The New York Times", "Salon.com", "Lingua Franca", "Entertainment Weekly", "Time Out New York", and "The Village Voice". - Greg Sandow
Greg Sandow is an American music critic and composer. For many years, he was best known as a critic, both of classical music and pop. But more recently he moved journalism to a back burner, revived a composing career that he abandoned in the 1980s, and began writing and speaking about the future of classical music, a subject that has become his specialty. As a critic, Sandow wrote for "The Village Voice" in the 1980s, … - Daniel Radosh
Daniel Radosh (born 23 March 1969) is an American journalist and blogger. He is a contributing editor at "The Week" and writes regularly for "The New Yorker". His writing has also appeared "Entertainment Weekly", "Esquire", "GQ", "Mademoiselle", "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", "Might", "New York Magazine", "The New York Times", "Playboy", "Radar", "Salon", "Slate", … - Whitney Matheson
Whitney Matheson is a writer and the author of Pop Candy (popcandy.usatoday.com), a popular entertainment blog. Matheson joined USA TODAY in 1999 and created Pop Candy as a weekly pop-culture column that same year. In 2006 Pop Candy won the Weblog Award for "Best Pop-Culture Blog." It has been cited in "Wired," "Slate", "The Rough Guide to Blogging" and on virtually every entertainment blog, including Stereogum, … - Geoff Keighley
Geoff Keighley is perhaps the most respected video game journalist working today. His work spans on-line, print and TV outlets, and he has been writing about games since the year 1992. He is most well known as the host of the Spike TV video game show Game Head, which is consistently the highest rated video games show on television. Keighley is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Business 2.0, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Currently,... - Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, … - Frank Decaro
Frank DeCaro (born November 6, 1962) is an American writer and performer. The New York-born DeCaro is one of the first openly gay humor columnists writing for a major American daily newspaper, "Newsday", and the author of "A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir" (Viking 1996). He came into the public eye as a featured recurring player on "The Daily Show", doing movie reviews with an over-the-top gay sensibility from 1996 to 2003. - Stew
Stew (Mark Stewart, born 1961) is a critcally acclaimed singer/songwriter from Los Angeles. In the early 1990s he formed a band called The Negro Problem and later went on to release albums under his own name. His 2000 release "Guest Host" was named Album of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and his 2002 album "The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs" repeated that feat. - Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular Gen X cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series "Optic Nerve" and his periodical illustrations in "The New Yorker". Despite heavy youth-culture exposure, (he is often referenced in mainstream publications such as "Entertainment Weekly" and teen TV dramas) Tomine remains a largely underground figure, placed demographically between "RAW" artists such as Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar, … - Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer. For an "Entertainment Weekly" article on direct-to-video movies passing themselves off as theatrical releases, he produced the first — and, after the article's publication, only — home video to obtain an MPAA rating. - Drew Friedman
Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist who was long known for his "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph, although in recent years he has switched to painted caricatures. His work has appeared widely, including in Entertainment Weekly and MAD Magazine. His painstaking attention to detail, and often photorealistic parodies of Hollywood legends is well known. - 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". - Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell is a writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", for which he won Emmy Awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He has also written for "Fortune Magazine", "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", "The New York Times", "Modern Humorist", "Entertainment Weekly", and Slate.com. He is a 1995 graduate of Columbia University. - Joan Lunden
Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series "Wickedly Perfect," and was a popular co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America" from 1980 through 1997. As the longest running morning news host, Lunden became one of the most visible women in the country. She joined "GMA" in the fall of 1976 as a feature news/consumer reporter, … - Autumn de Wilde
Autumn de Wilde (born 1970) is an American photographer noted for her portraiture and commercial work photography of indie musicians. De Wilde was born in Woodstock, New York. Her father, Jerry de Wilde, was an art and commercial photographer noted for his photos of Jimi Hendrix, the Monterey Pop Festival and other icons of the 1960s. Autumn de Wilde had no formal education in photography, but learned photography from her father. - Ted Harbert
Ted Harbert was in charge of programming for ABC for several years in the 1990's. He held a similar position for E! Entertainment Television and Style Network until mid-October 2006, when he got promoted to the newly created position of CEO at the Comcast Entertainment Group which added Comcast’s G4 TV, which is aimed at young men, to his portfolio. - Bill Harley
Bill Harley is a children's entertainer who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly. He uses a range of musical styles and appeals to children and adults with quirky, heart-filled lyrics. He received the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album For Children (albums consisting of predominantly spoken word versus music or song) for his "Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dog". - Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters is a singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. The daughter of an author/activist father and a mother whom Peters describes as a "free spirit", she was raised in New York and Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 80's "when they were still signing people like Steve Earle and Nanci Griffith". Peters claims, “I never understood how the music business took people and broke them up into little pieces - the songwriter, the producer, … - Denison Witmer
Denison Witmer is an indie singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first release was a cassette in 1995 entitled "My Luck, My Love". He has released five LPs, a cover album ("Recovered"), two EPs, and an LP with his side project, The River Bends, which Witmer plays guitar and sings for with a backup band including members of Philly-based alt-country band One Star Hotel. - Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala (b. November 5, 1982) is an author who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, "Beasts of No Nation", is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like "Time Magazine", "The New York Times", "Entertainment Weekly", "The Times", and "Rolling Stone". - Matthew John Armstrong
Matthew John Armstrong (born August 28, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. He is most recently seen in the television series "Heroes" as Ted Sprague and a single episode of "House". He also had a long running role on "American Dreams". He attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois. - Ward Sutton
Ward Sutton is an American illustrator and writer born in Minneapolis and based in New York City, whose comic strip, "Sutton Impact" (formerly "Schlock 'n' Roll"), has been published in "The Village Voice" since 1995. Sutton also illustrates and writes a bi-weekly cartoon in TV Guide, "That's Entertoonment", and has contributed cartoons and illustrations to the op-ed pages of "The New York Times" and to "Rolling Stone", "Time", … - Andy Greenwald
Andy Greenwald is a writer of social commentary, specifically about popular music. He is currently a senior contributing writer at Spin Magazine, and has also written for such publications as The Washington Post, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, MTV Magazine, Complex, and Magnet. He is the author of the books "Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo" and "Miss Misery: A Novel". - Gigi Levangie Grazer
Gigi Levangie Grazer (born circa 1963) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Of Bulgarian and Irish extraction, she was born Georgianne Levangie in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she majored in Political Science. Her Hollywood career began as an assistant to producer Fred Silverman, who dissuaded her from attending law school by offering her a substantial raise and writing assignments for the television series "In the Heat of the Night". - Chris Staros
Chris Staros is the publisher of Top Shelf Productions, one of the critically-acclaimed independent press publishers of graphic novels and comics. He is also the President of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the non-profit organization founded in 1986 whose charter is to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community. - Olivia Goldsmith
Olivia Goldsmith (1949 - January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel "The First Wives Club" (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996). She was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal. - Riley Weston
Riley Weston (born in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an actress and screenwriter who became embroiled in a debate about ageism in Hollywood, after it was discovered that she lied about her age to get work in the entertainment industry. Weston had bit film and television roles as a young girl, including the 1980s sitcoms "Growing Pains" and "Who's the Boss?". - Scott Kauffman
Scott Kauffman (born 1956) is an American business manager. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de Souza's first film, Arnold's Wrecking Co.. Kauffman has worked for a variety of media companies; the first was Time Warner in the founding of Entertainment Weekly. His next job was as a vice-president of CompuServe, …
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