- Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD. - Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues. - Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy award winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer. - Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas (born Margaret Julia Thomas on November 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series "That Girl" in the 1960s. She is the daughter of the late Lebanese-American comedian Danny Thomas and sister of Tony Thomas, a TV and film producer, and Terre Thomas, a former actress. Her mother, Rose Marie Mantell, was the adopted daughter of Italian Americans and died in 2000. - Don Imus
John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. (born March 11, 1940) is a controversial American humorist, writer, radio and television talk show host in the mold of a shock jock. His "drive time" weekday morning radio show, "Imus in the Morning" was aired over WNBC and WFAN in New York from 1971 to 1977 (when he was fired) and again from 1979 until it was canceled on April 12 2007, in response to comments he made on air. - Marilyn Chambers
Marilyn Chambers (born Marilyn Ann Briggs, April 22, 1952, in Westport, Connecticut, USA) is a former American pornographic actress and stripteaser perhaps best known for her 1972 hardcore debut "Behind the Green Door." - Phil Donahue
Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American media personality, best known as the creator and star of "The Phil Donahue Show", also known as "Donahue", the first tabloid talk show. The show had a 26-year run on national (U.S.) TV, preceeded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996. His shows have generally focused on issues that often divide liberals and conservatives in the U.S., … - Deirdre Imus
Deirdre Coleman Imus (born 1964) is the founder and president of the "Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology", part of Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in New Jersey, United States. She is also a cofounder and codirector of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer, and the author of two books, "Greening Your Cleaning" and "The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys". - Stevan Dohanos
Stevan Dohanos (b. May 18 1907, Lorain, Ohio - d. 1994) was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his "Saturday Evening Post" covers, and responsible for several of the "Don't Talk" set of World War II propaganda posters. He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting. Dohanos attended the Cleveland School of Art. He worked in fine art as well as in commercial art. - Sandy Dennis
Sandy Dennis was an Academy Award- and Tony-winning American theater and film actress. - Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein CBE (Hon) (born March 19, 1952) is an American film producer and movie studio chairman. - Brett Somers
Brett Somers (born Audrey Sommers on July 11, 1924) is an actress, singer, and comedienne. She is perhaps best known as a panelist on the 1970s CBS game show "Match Game". - Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca (born November 18, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – died June 2, 2001 in Fairfield, Connecticut) born Imogene Fernandez de Coca was an Emmy-winning American comic actress. Her parents were veterans of the entertainment industry; her father, José Fernandez de Coca, was a conductor. Her mother, Sadie Brady, was a dancer and magician's assistant. - Luke Greenfield
Luke Greenfield (born February 5 1972 in Manhasset, New York, raised in Westport, Connecticut) is best known as a film director. He is best known for directing "The Animal" and "The Girl Next Door". In July 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the filmmaking reality show On the Lot. - Pamela Sue Martin
Pamela Sue Martin (born January 5, 1953 in Westport, Connecticut), is an American actress, best known for playing Nancy Drew on "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" TV series and Fallon Carrington Colby on the night time soap opera "Dynasty". Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of "The Poseidon Adventure" (opposite Gene Hackman) at the age of 19. - Alex Raymond
Alexander Gillespie Raymond was an American comic strip artist, best known for creating the comic "Flash Gordon" in 1934. The serial hit the silver screen three years later with Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as the leading players. Other strips he drew include "Secret Agent X-9", "Rip Kirby", "Jungle Jim", "Tim Tyler's Luck", and "Tillie the Toiler". - Jean Donovan
Jean Donovan (April 10, 1953 - December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was murdered with three nuns in El Salvador by a government death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there. - Frank Perry
Frank Perry was an American stage and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Perry was born in New York City where as a teenager he began pursuing his interest in the theater with a job as a parking lot attendant for the Westport Country Playhouse in nearby Westport, Connecticut. He would develop his talents to where he produced several plays at Westport then turned for a time to producing television documentaries. - Frank Deford
Author and commentator, Frank Deford is among the most versatile of American writers. His work has appeared in virtually every medium. Mr. Deford is the author of fifteen books, his newest, The Entitled , a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, was published in the spring of 2007 to rave reviews. - Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta is the current special advisor on management reforms to the Secretary-General of the United Nation. He is also an independent director at Goldman Sachs and is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago. - Kevin Conroy
Kevin Conroy (born November 30 1955) is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, perhaps best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Batman in numerous animated series and features that comprised the DC animated universe. - Matt Gallant
Matt Gallant (born June 25 1964) is an American television host. He is well-known as the former host of the Emmy Award-winning "The Planet's Funniest Animals" on Animal Planet. He has also been one the guest judges on various other television shows featuring animals and pets. He has also acted in "Good Burger" (1997) as a reporter, and has played co-host to "Xbox Live: Launch Party" and "Game On" (2002). - Nile Rodgers
Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19 1952 in New York City) is a prolific and influential musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band "Chic", with influential bassist, the late Bernard Edwards. - Steve Miner
Steve Miner (born June 18, 1951 in Westport, Connecticut) is an American film and television director. Television programs Miner has directed include "The Wonder Years", "Jake 2.0", "Felicity", "Dawson's Creek" (including the pilot and four of the other episodes of the first season), and "Diagnosis Murder". In Cinema, he is best known for directing "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", and "Lake Placid". - Tara Subkoff
Tara Lyn Subkoff (born December 10, 1972) is an actress and fashion designer from Westport, Connecticut. She attended Otis Parsons school for less than a year and then dropped out. She has acted in over a dozen movies, most recently 2006's "The Notorious Bettie Page". She appeared in Blondie's 2003 music video for "Good Boys". - Larry Kenney
Larry Kenney (born August 5, 1947, in Pekin, Illinois) is an American radio personality. He began his radio career in 1963, as a disc jockey at WIRL in Peoria. From 1973 until April 12, 2007, he was part of the regular cast on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, where his recorded impersonations of dozens of characters, including General George Patton, Andy Rooney and Ross Perot have enriched the program. - Eric von Schmidt
Eric Von Schmidt (May 28 1931 - February 2 2007) was an American singer-songwriter associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. He was known mostly for his associations with Bob Dylan during the latter's early career. - William Glackens
William James Glackens (b. March 13 1870, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - d. May 22 1938, Westport, Connecticut) was a U.S. realist painter. Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement. He was known for his dark-hued paintings of street scenes and daily life in the city's neighborhoods. - Alisan Porter
Alisan Porter (born June 20, 1981) is an American actress and singer. Porter was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is Jewish. Porter's mother, Laura Klein, played Bebe in "A Chorus Line" in the original run. She was a dance coach for Diane Klimaszewski & Elaine Klimaszewski (now better known as the Coors Light Twins) who appeared on Star Search in 1987 in the teen dance category. While in LA for the twins' appearance on the show, … - Lawrence Langner
Lawrence Langner (30 May 1890 - 1962) was a playwright, author, and producer. Born near Swansea, South Wales and working most of his life in the United States, he started his career as one of the founders of the Washington Square Players troupe in 1914. In 1919 he founded the Theatre Guild, where he supervised over 200 productions. He was also founder and Chairman of the American Shakespeare Festival, and with his wife, Armina Marshall, … - Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a noted American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. - Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child (born 1957) is an author of techno-thriller and horror novels. Often paired with writing partner Douglas Preston, many of their novels have become bestsellers and one, "Relic", was adapted into a feature film. Child and Preston's books are known for their thorough research, making their stories credible and believable. Born in Westport, Connecticut, but now a New Jersey resident, Child graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, … - Dan Hartman
Dan Hartman (December 8 1950 - March 22 1994) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer - Patricia Kalember
Patricia Kathryn Kalember (born December 30, 1956 or 1957) is an American actress. She is known for playing "Georgie" on the NBC television show "Sisters". Before that, she portrayed Susannah on the popular 1980s television show "thirtysomething". Kalember was born in Schenectady, New York to Vivian Daisy Wright and Robert James Kalember, an executive. She was raised in Westport, Connecticut and Louisville, Kentucky. - Ken Kaess
Kenneth Richard Kaess Jr. was CEO of advertising agency DDB Worldwide. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut and raised in Watertown, Connecticut, Kaess graduated from Vassar College. Kaess began in 1977 at Doyle Dane Bernbach, which was later renamed DDB. He left for a vice president/management supervisor position at Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, then went to New World Entertainment, … - Kerri Kenney-Silver
Kerri Kenney-Silver (born January 20, 1970) is an American actress, singer, and writer. Kenney-Silver was born in Westport, Connecticut, USA, to Sharon and Larry Kenney, an actor who is known for his classic voice-over work. She has a sister, Ashley, and a brother, Tanner. During the early 1990s, Kenney-Silver joined with an improv comedy group The State. The group was picked up for a self-titled sketch comedy show on MTV, "The State", … - Magnus Colcord Heurlin
Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin (b. July 5 1895, Christanstad, Sweden - d. March 10 1986, Ester, Alaska) was born into American parents, Berndt Felix Heurlin and Sophie Bjorklund, and was raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts after the family returned to the U.S. from Sweden in 1896. He attended art classes at the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston. Heurlin first came to Alaska in 1916, to Valdez, traveling aboard the SS "Northwestern" from Seattle, Washington. - William McFee
William McFee (b. London June 15 1881, d. July 2 1966) was a writer of sea stories. He was born on the "Erin's Isle," a three-master owned by his father, a sea captain. Educated at Culford School, he became a mechanical engineer at Richard Moreland & Sons and W. Summerscales & Sons in the City, before going to sea as a marine engineer in 1906. He rose to chief engineer in ships of the Woodfield SS Co.; went to the United States in 1911 and wrote books, … - Morris Ketchum Jesup
Morris Ketchum Jesup (June 21 1830 - January 22 1908), United States banker and philanthropist, was born at Westport, Connecticut. In 1842 he went to New York City, where after some experience in business he established a banking house in 1852. In 1856 he organized the banking firm of MK Jesup & Company, which after two reorganizations became Cuyler, Morgan & Jesup. He became widely known as a financier, retiring from active business in 1884. - John Porter
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