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Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, … - 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. - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace (born Myron Leon Wallace on May 9, 1918) is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes" since its debut in 1968. During his career at "60 Minutes", he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Ayn Rand, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Malcolm X, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Jeffrey Wigand, … - Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views. - Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large of the "Atlantic Monthly" and a columnist for the "Washington Post". He died in 2003 covering the invasion of Iraq. Prior to his employment at "Atlantic", he was the editor of "The New Republic", from 1996 to 1997. Considering that the fraudulent writer, Stephen Glass, was a major contributor under his editorship, Kelly later felt ashamed that he was fooled by Glass' false stories. - Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman is a US journalist, blogger, actor, director and comedian. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He can speak using a High British, East London, Cockney, Irish, Yiddish, German and other dialects and has special skills that include Sketch Comedy, Juggling, Unicycling, Driver's License, Various Circus Skills, Baseball, Tennis, Roller & Ice Skating, Basketball, Water & Snow Skiing, Golf, and Stage Combat. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is an American author, historian and broadcaster. - John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. - Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. - 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. - George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. - 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. - Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich Serbian Cyrillic Петар Богдановић(born July 30, 1939) is a Serbian-American film director, writer and actor. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors (which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola, among others), and was particularly relevant during the 1970s with his film "The Last Picture Show". - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly controversial figure. - Tony Kornheiser
Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and columnist for "The Washington Post", as well as a radio and television talk show host. Kornheiser has hosted "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on radio in various forms since 1992; co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001; and served as an analyst for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" since 2006. He is well known for his savage wit and sarcastic humor in print, … - L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15 1856-May 6 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", better known today as simply "The Wizard of Oz". He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works, … - John Gilmore
John "Jonathan" Gilmore (born July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist and gonzo journalist. - Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. His mother was of Irish Catholic descent, and his father was of Greek descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. Bob's father, John Costas, was an electrical engineer, baseball fan, and gambler. - Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948), is an American television personality for news and sports programs. He is best known for his 15-year stint as co-anchor of NBC's "The Today Show". He is the younger brother of veteran sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel - Maury Povich
Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C.) is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show "Maury" which has earned him national recognition due to the paternity tests that are often aired. Povich is the son of "Washington Post" sportswriter Shirley Povich, who wrote a weekly column for the paper for more than 70 years. Povitch is an Lithuanian Jewish surname. - Justin Theroux
Born August 10, 1971 in Washington, D.C., Theroux came from an artistic family. His uncle, Paul, wrote The Mosquito Coast, while his cousin, Louis, is a journalist. He discovered acting while attending Buxton School, a boarding school in Williamstown, MA (after being expelled from several high schools). Theroux graduated from Bennington College with a double major in visual arts and drama and later attended the prestigious British American Drama Academy in London, England. - Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle has been a columnist for more than 30 years, writing in that time for The Boston Globe, New York Daily News, and the Boston Herald. Locally, he continues to contribute to the Boston Herald and to WCVB TV's "Chronicle", the longest running , award winning local news magazine show. - José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, <small>GColSE</small> is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. His works commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor rather than the official story. Some of his works can also be seen as allegories. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. He currently lives on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain. - Anne Robinson
Anne Josephine Robinson (born September 26, 1944) is an English television presenter and television game show hostess who is most famous for hosting the BBC game show, "The Weakest Link" which coined her the name 'Queen of Mean'. She was also one of the presenters on the long-running British consumer affairs series, "Watchdog", from 1993 to 2001. - Toine van Peperstraten
Toine van Peperstraten (born December 18, 1967 in Achthuizen, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch sports journalist, most famous for hosting the NOS TV sports program Studio Sport. Being a celebrity, he also participated in the 2006 edition of Wie is... de Mol?. - Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman (born John Whitney Stillman in Washington, D.C. on January 25, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" (as he terms the upper-class WASPs of the U.S. socio-cultural elite). - Dominick Dunne
D ominick Dunne has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993, covering the high-profile trials of the Menendez brothers, O. J. Simpson , and Michael Skakel , to name a few, and writing about subjects from Imelda Marcos to Claus von Bulow, to Warren Beatty and Annette Bening . He files his monthly column, "Dominick Dunne's Diary," for the magazine, sharing his inside stories from Hollywood and high society. - Simon Hughes
Simon Peter Hughes (born 20 December 1959) is an English cricketer and journalist. He is the son of the actor, Peter Hughes, and the brother of the historian Bettany Hughes. He was born at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and educated at Latymer Upper School (where he was a contemporary of Hugh Grant). He was an oustanding fast medium bowler of away swing and captained the school XI successfully. He went on to study geography at Durham ,and played for the university. - Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born 17 January 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American author and journalist. He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. He received a National Magazine Award in 2000 for "The Forensics of War," published in "Vanity Fair" in 1999. In 1997, with the publication of his work, "The Perfect Storm", he was touted as the new Hemingway, … - Morley Safer
Morley Safer (born November 8, 1931) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News. Safer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute when he was young. He later graduated from University of Western Ontario. Safer began his journalism career as a reporter for various newspapers in Canada and England. Later, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a correspondent and producer. - Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn on March 10, 1984) is an American actress. Coming from a family of journalists, she began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including her roles on the series "The O.C." and "The Black Donnellys". - Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history. In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, where he intended to work as an author and journalist. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family, who remained in Germany, would not be endangered by his writing. - Nick Clooney
Nicholas Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American television journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky. He is the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney, and the father of actor George Clooney.
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