- Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25 1980) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, philanthropist, and author who has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. - James Gunn
James Gunn (born August 5, 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, film maker, actor, musician and cartoonist. - Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980 as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal) is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age eleven, and his short career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received an Academy Award nomination and won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award. - Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. His most memorable lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "The Lady is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine". Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Rodgers, … - Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit "Donnie Darko". Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, … - Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American stage and screen actress. After beginning her theatre career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet. Her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, … - James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney — a billing never found on any of his films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. - Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Emanuel began to study piano at the age of six and Joachim was his first piano teacher. When he has eight the family moved to Warsaw and then two years later, to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, … - Sandy Koufax
Koufax attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School. While there, he was better known for basketball and than for baseball. When he started high school, school sports were not available because the New York school teachers were refusing to supervise extracurricular activities without monetary compensation. As an alternative to school sports, Koufax started playing basketball for a local Jewish Community Center team. - Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture. - Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) is an American actor. Affleck spent his youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and briefly attended Columbia University before dropping out to concentrate on acting. He is the younger brother of actor Ben Affleck. - Famke Janssen
Famke was born in Holland, where she began her professional career as a model. She later moved to the United States, where she has made her home since 1984. Initially settling in New York, she majored in writing and literature at Columbia University and studied acting with Harold Guskin . She then went to Los Angeles, where she continued to study acting under Roy London . Famke made her feature film debut with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992). - Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Miguel Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera on July 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American television journalist, attorney, and former talk show host. He is known to have an affinity for dramatic, high-profile stories, and issues that are often sidelined by traditional media, such as racism and hate-crimes. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program "Geraldo at Large", and appears regularly on Fox News Channel. - Ben Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American lawyer, law professor, actor, comedian, game show host and former White House speechwriter. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is a writer. - Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman (May 15, 1904-June 20, 1999) was an intellectual, author, radio and television personality and nephew of William James Sidis. - Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noel Hill-Marley (born May 25, 1975) is an eight-time Grammy award winning musician, record producer, and film actress. She initially established her reputation as the most visible and vocal member of The Fugees. On August 25, 1998 she launched her solo career by releasing the critically lauded album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill", bringing the then-emerging neo-soul genre to a wider commercial platform. - Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. Her breakthrough performance was in "The Piano", which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress as the second youngest winner in history. She was nine years old when the movie was made, and has continued acting since. - 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 Dennehy
Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and performed in live theater. - Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". - Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American film and television actress. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. Gordon-Levitt began as a child actor, becoming known for his role on the series "3rd Rock from the Sun", and subsequently developing into adult roles, having strongly concentrated on independent films (including "Brick" and "The Lookout") and receiving positive reviews for his performances. - Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, … - Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (December 18 1917 - February 4 2005) was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist. - Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21 1917 - September 12, 1993) was an Emmy-nominated actor and vintner, perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas "Perry Mason" and "Ironside". - Kirk Alyn
Kirk Alyn (October 8, 1910 - March 14, 1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman on screen, in the 1948 film serial "Superman", and its 1950 sequel "Atom Man Vs. Superman". - Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an actor and former model. His first major role was playing the older brother and patriarch Charlie Salinger on "Party of Five" in the 1990s, co-starring with both Scott Wolf and Neve Campbell. He gained much greater fame for his current starring role as Dr. Jack Shephard on the hit ABC drama series "Lost". - Mario van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles (b. January 15, 1957 in Mexico City, Mexico) is an American director and actor who has appeared in numerous films. He is the son of writer, director and actor Melvin Van Peebles and German actress Maria Marx. His 2004 biopic "BAADASSSSS!" describes the making of his father's seminal film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song". He graduated from Columbia University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in economics. - Rider Strong
Rider King Strong (born December 11, 1979) is an American actor. Strong was born in San Francisco, California to King Strong and Lin Warner. Strong's best known part was as Shawn Hunter in "Boy Meets World". He's also famous for playing "Paul" in the indie horror film "Cabin Fever" (2002), directed by Eli Roth. His family made their own production company named Redwood Shire Productions. He has also said that the film, "Cabin Fever", … - Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke was a Jewish American actor who performed on stage, screen and television. He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show "The Dukes of Hazzard". Born in Buffalo, New York, and fluent in five languages including Japanese, Sorrell Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. - Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas (born June 13 1951) is an American actor, best known as "John-Boy" on the TV series, "The Waltons". - Max Kellerman
Max Kellerman (born August 6, 1973) is an American sports talk radio host from New York City. He currently hosts his daily radio show "The Max Kellerman Show" on 1050 ESPN Radio (WEPN) in New York City. - Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan (b. January 29 1941) is a former child actor turned American radical feminist activist, writer, poet, and editor of "Sisterhood is Powerful" and "Ms. Magazine". During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights and anti-war movements; in the late 1960s she was a founding member of radical feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H.. She also founded the Womens Media Center (see) - Luc Sante
Luc Sante is a writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His books include "Low Life" (1991), "Evidence" (1992), "The Factory of Facts" (1998), "Walker Evans" (1999), and "Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" (2007). He co-edited, with his wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, "O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors" (1998), … - Tony Randall
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was an American comic actor. - Ed Harris
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his performances in "The Rock (film)", "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13" and "Pollock", among many others. - Crispin Freeman
Crispin McDougal Freeman (born February 9 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is a prolific American voice actor best known for his roles as Alucard in "Hellsing" and the OVA "Hellsing Ultimate" and as Touga Kiryuu from "Revolutionary Girl Utena". He also played the voice of Kouichi Kimura in "Digimon: Digital Monsters", Prince Turnip in Hayao Miyazaki's movie adaptation of "Howl's Moving Castle", and Zelgadis Greywords in "Slayers". - Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter and noted raconteur. In 1926 Mankiewicz left a job as drama editor at "The New Yorker" magazine to write for Hollywood. Shortly after his arrival on the West Coast, he sent a telegram to journalist-friend Ben Hecht in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. - 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, … - Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers, PhD (maiden name Joyce Diane Bauer, born October 20, 1928) is a psychologist and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. She gained fame in 1955 by winning "The $64,000 Question" game show, on which she appeared as an expert in the subject area of boxing. It should be noted that the game was rigged against her favor, and her win was part of a major court case of the 50s. Dr.
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