Theater scion Simon Hammerstein is an off-off Broadway director and the founder of achingly hip Lower East Side nightlife venue The Box.

Lady Bunny is a drag performer, comedian, and occasional DJ, otherwise known—at least to the Department of Motor Vehicles—as Jon Ingle.

Along with Tom Bernard, Barker runs the specialty film house Sony Pictures Classics.

"Marty" is responsible for some of the most influential American films of the last thirty years, including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

Tom Bernard

A towering figure on the theater scene, Hal Prince has spent the last four decades producing and directing some of the biggest shows on Broadway, including Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera.

Once one-third of the Fugees, Wyclef is now a solo artist, music producer, party fixture, and globe-trotting do-gooder.

Jones is a multiple Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter of jazz-lite, country and soul-tinged tunes. Don't understand why she's so famous? Try asking your mom.

O'Brien is the peppy, telegenic newscaster who co-hosted CNN's American Morning until mid-2007. She's now the host of the In America documentary unit on CNN.

Deborah Needleman

The French-born "Get me Patrick" Demarchelier is one of the most famous fashion photographers in the world.

Ja Rule is the platinum-selling hip-hop artist who rose to fame with the hits "I'm Real" and "Always On Time" in the early 2000s. He is also famous for his numerous feuds with other rappers and, as of June 2011, for landing himself in jail.

Legendary TV personality Mike Wallace was a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes from 1968 until his departure in 2006. He passed away in 2012.

Bob Silvers is the editor in chief of the New York Review of Books.

A liberal talking head and media critic, Alterman is widely seen as one of the most insufferable members of America's chattering class.

Susanne Bartsch

A native of Sweden, Lundqvist is the golden-boy goalie for the New York Rangers.

An heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, Robert Wood Johnson IV is the fat checkbook behind the New York Jets.

Kelis Rogers, better recognized mononymously by her first name, is known for having a milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard, and not much else.

Jacob Weisberg