Marcia Gay Harden is an Oscar-winning film, TV, and stage actress. She landed her first break when cast in Joel and Ethan Coen's 1990 film Miller's Crossing alongside Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro. In 1993, she starred in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, which earned her a Tony nomination. Harden continued to play small parts on stage and in films throughout the '90s, but her career-making role didn't come until 2000, when she starred opposite Ed Harris in the biopic Pollock and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Since then, she's given solid performances in over a dozen films (of varying levels of quality), including Mystic River (for which she earned an Oscar nomination), Mona Lisa Smile, Bad News Bears, and American Dreamz. In 2009, she returned to Broadway with God of Carnage, winning a Best Actress Tony for her performance. She's been nominated twice for an Emmy—first for a guest role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2007, then for her role in the TV film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler in 2009—but didn't win for either, keeping her as yet from the coveted "triple crown" (Oscar, Tony, Emmy).

Kurtz has been performing on the stage and screen for three decades.

Michael J. Fox is an '80s movie icon and likable former sitcom star. He's also
afflicted with a crippling nerve disorder.

Toni Morrison is one of the most beloved and admired writers of the 20th century. The daughter of a ship welder, Chloe Anthony Wofford (she picked up "Toni," in college) was born during the Depression in Lorain, Ohio. After attending Howard University, Morrison earned her master's in English at Cornell and spent a few years in academia before working as a textbook editor in Syracuse, then as a senior editor at Random House. Morrison was nearly 40 in 1970 when she published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, though she didn't gain significant recognition until 1977's Song of Solomon, which won National Book Critics Circle Award. After a string of successive novels, her most celebrated book, Beloved, came in 1987, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and she is currently the last American to receive the recognition. She joined the faculty of Princeton as the Robert F. Goheen professor of the humanities in 1989, retiring in 2006, though she remains a professor emeritus at the university. Before any of her fame, Toni was married to Harold Morrison and had two children, Slade and Kevin, but she hasn't spoken publicly about her romantic life since (saying only that it's been "satisfactory"). Morrison has released several children's books with her son Slade, including 1999's The Big Box and 2003's Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse?

Paltrow has it all: an Oscar, a rock star husband, and two cute kids; for everything else, check her blog.

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The inexhaustible octogenarian has been a fixture on the gossip scene for decades.

The city's finance commissioner under Mayor Ed Koch and deputy chancellor of the New York City Department of Education during the Rudy Giuliani administration, Shorris was Eliot Spitzer's pick to head up the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He stepped down from the post in 2008.

All-American Christie Brinkley was one of the most popular models of the early '80s. She graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue three times in a row, became the face of Cover Girl, and hawked everything from Diet Coke to Clairol. As her youthful looks turned into middle-aged wrinkles, she cashed in on the infomercial circuit, shilling for Total Gym fitness machines alongside martial-arts demigod Chuck Norris. In recent years, she's spent her time on a number of standard-issue ex-supermodel pursuits—writing fitness books, launching a perfume, designing sunglasses and toddler toys, and dabbling in political activism. Brinkley has been down the aisle—and back to the courthouse—four times. The consecutive grooms were, in order: Jean-François Allaux (whom she divorced in 1981), Billy Joel (inspiring "Uptown Girl," but ending in 1994), Richard Taubman (lasting only a year), and architect and former model Peter Cook (whom she married in 1996, but divorced in a bitter, affair-tainted—but ultimately lucrative for Brinkley—settlement a decade later). Brinkley has three children, one with each of her last three husbands.

The former anchor of Good Morning America, Sawyer took over the network's evening newscast from Charles Gibson when he retired at the end of 2009. Her husband is Mike Nichols.

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Leigh is an under-the-radar indie goddess best known for her parts in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Single White Female.

One of the most prominent tech executives in New York, Ryan helped turn DoubleClick into the preeminent internet advertising company. These days he's the chairman and CEO of AlleyCorp, a network of six affiliated Internet companies.

Kirshenbaum is the founder and co-chair of ad agency Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners. He's the guy to blame for introducing the world to Wendy the Snapple Lady.

A preppy pin-up in the '70s, Candice Bergen later became famous as TV's favorite uptight working woman, Murphy Brown. Raised in Hollywood, Bergen was the daughter of popular radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. After getting kicked out of Penn for poor grades, she turned to modeling before earning her first role in Sidney Lumet's 1966 film The Group. A string of starlet roles earned her celebrity status thereafter in the '70s, but her career cooled at the end of the decade. She returned to the spotlight in 1988 playing an acerbic TV newscaster on Murphy Brown, and stayed with the show until 1998, winning five Emmys along the way. In the early ‘90s, she had a highly-publicized spat with then-Vice President Dan Quayle after he blasted Murphy Brown for promoting single motherhood. Post-Murphy, she (unwisely) turned down a job on 60 Minutes to host her own Oxygen network talk show, which was cancelled after a year. She's since had roles in a few lackluster comedies, like Miss Congeniality, Sweet Home Alabama, and View from the Top. Her career took a turn upward in 2005 when she joined the cast of Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt, receiving two Emmy nominations for the role. Bergen bas been married twice, first to French film director Louis Malle, who succumbed to cancer in 1995, and then to real estate developer Marshall Rose in 2000. She has one daughter, Chloé, from her first marriage.

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Christian Slater is an actor best known (especially in recent years) for his off-screen antics, including an extensive dating CV and a rap sheet to match.

Ron Berger is the CEO of ad agency Euro RSCG Worldwide, a unit of French ad giant Havas. He also dabbles in documentary filmmaking.

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Tom Florio is the former publisher of Vogue. He was the man responsible for weighing down the Anna Wintour-edited fashion tome with 112 pounds of ads every September. These days, he's been snatched up by the company Advanstar to head their fashion group.