- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. - Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air. - Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy award-winning American comedian, actor, and writer. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld", which he co-created, helped write, and executive produced. - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. - Dj Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), better known as DJ Premier (and affectionately "Premo"/"Primo"/"Preem" by his fans, fellow musicians and critics) is a prominent American hip hop producer and DJ, and the instrumental half of the duo Gang Starr, together with MC Guru on the lyrical side. Originally from Houston, he has lived in Brooklyn, New York virtually his entire professional career. - Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Larry David
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. David was co-creator, head writer and executive producer (as well as the voice of New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner) for the television series "Seinfeld". He also created and stars in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem Author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and other novels & the recipient of the 1999 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction - Joe Torre
The classic example of an affiliative leader - and the one often cited by Goleman - is Joe Torre , the ex-manager of the New York Yankees. Just think about the challenges faced by the manager of a professional baseball team. And the New York Yankees are not just any team. Joe Torre was the manager of one of the most talented teams in all of baseball. And with all that talent come a lot of ego-centric players. - Biz Markie
Biz Markie (born Marcel Hall April 8, 1964 in Harlem, New York) is an East Coast hip hop rapper and DJ, best known for humorous singles such as "Just a Friend". He has been labeled The Clown Prince of Hip-Hop. - Ol' Dirty Bastard
Russell Tyrone Jones was an American MC known by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Ol' Dirty Bastard simultaneously brought a measure of humor and a touch of the absurd to the Wu-Tang Clan. Often noted for his unusual microphone technique (critic Steve Huey writes of Jones' "outrageously profane, … - Brad Meltzer
One of America's literary sensations, Meltzer is the author of four best-selling legal thrillers: The Tenth Justice , The First Counsel , Dead Even , The Millionaires , and The Zero Game . With wit and humor, Meltzer offers audiences myriad anecdotes, from his first 24 rejection letters to his inspiratio ... - Masta Ace
Masta Ace (born Duval Clear on December 4, 1966) is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. Appearing on classic 1988 posse cut, "The Symphony", he garnered notoriety as an unsung asset to the Juice Crew posse, where he released a number of well-respected albums that were nonetheless little-heard outside purist circles. The single that has earned him the most attention has been "Born to Roll" (a remix to the track "Jeep Ass Niguh", … - Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller, "A People's History of the United States". Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States. - Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", … - Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings "I Write the Songs", "Mandy" and "Copacabana". His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis. - Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6 1917 - January 3 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic "Catch-22". The novel was partly based on Heller's own war experiences and its literary devices are continued on into his other novels. It influenced, among others, Robert Altman's comedy M*A*S*H and the subsequent long-running TV series, set in the Korean War. The phrase "Catch-22" has entered the English language to signify a no-win situation, … - Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American independent film writer and director. He attended Midwood High School (1987) and Vassar College. He is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and "Village Voice" critic Georgia Brown. He made his writing and directing debut at the age of 24 with "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives, … - Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer. - Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write many major hit songs for himself and others. Sedaka's voice is in the tenor and alto ranges. - Richie Havens
Richie Havens (born January 21 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American folk singer and guitarist. Havens is perhaps best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style, soulful covers of pop and folk songs and his opening performance at the Woodstock Festival; all the more remarkable for the absence of most of his upper teeth. Havens uses open D tuning on the guitar. By fretting all strings it produces a major chord on any position on the neck of the guitar. - Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of "The New Yorker". In the early 1950s, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the "New York Daily News", and "Newsday". - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an award-winning author and historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Widely published revelations of plagiarism began in 2002, and her admission that she had previously settled a plagiarism case out of court had an effect on her reputation. While Goodwin steadfastly denied plagiarism, using the word "unintentional" to excuse her unattributed use of others' work, her concurrent position on the Harvard Board of Directors, … - Meir Kahane
Rabbi Meir David Kahane (also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, author, political activist, and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political and nationalist views, … - James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and film director. He is best known for producing American television programs such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Simpsons" (in which he created miscellaneous characters, including the Bouvier family), "Rhoda" and "Taxi". - Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (b. Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1930) is son of a Jewish immigrant from the Central European region of Galicia who was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a low-income neighborhood in racial transition. Podhoretz's family was left-wing, with his elder sister joining a socialist youth movement. Podhoretz received bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University-where he studied under Lionel Trilling-and the Jewish Theological Seminary. - Marv Wolfman
Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on "Tomb of Dracula" and creating "Blade" for Marvel Comics, and "The New Teen Titans" for DC Comics. Wolfman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. - John Flansburgh
John Conant Flansburgh (born May 6, 1960) is an actor and musician from Brooklyn, New York (though born and raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts). He is half of the longstanding alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar. He is also left-handed. Commonly referred to by the nickname "Flans" (and by "Flansy" on the song "Mr. Xcitement" from the album "Mink Car"), he is married to writer/singer/puppeteer Robin Goldwasser, … - Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan (born September 6, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She graduated from San Francisco University High School before attending the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge. She is the author of three novels, "The Keep", "The Invisible Circus", and "Look at Me", which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and a short story collection, … - Nelson George
Nelson George (b. September 1, 1957) is an African American author, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He attended St. John's University, after which he served as a music editor for Billboard magazine from 1982 to 1989. While there, George published two books; "Where Did Our Love Go: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound" in 1986, … - Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Steve Guttenberg
Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24 1958) is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including "Cocoon" and "Three Men and a Baby". - Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. His best-known work is "The Phil Silvers Show", a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name. The show's chief writer, Nat Hiken, was TV's first writer-producer, and Hiken helped set a high comic tone for the show through his inventive plots and snappy comedic repartee for the characters.
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