Dafoe is the weirdly compelling Oscar-nominated character actor who has played everyone from Jesus Christ to the Green Goblin.

Francesa is host of the influential daily sports talk show formerly called Mike and the Mad Dog.

Moore is the generously-proportioned, baseball-capped documentarian who's a thorn in the side of big business, the Bush White House, and liberals who don't agree with him. Love him or hate him, you probably know his name, which is all he's really after in the end.

Aronofsky is the director of such feel-good films as Pi, the traumatic heroin saga Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. His ex is Rachel Weisz.

Indie queen Sofia Coppola is a favorite of moviegoing hipsters, who appreciate her quiet, cerebral flicks like Lost in Translation.

One of America's foremost playwrights, Albee has penned dozens of plays, including the seminal Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Miller is the Oscar-nominated director who is best known for the 2005 film Capote and 2011's Moneyball.

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.

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.

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.

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

The former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown is a magazine industry icon.