Palminteri is on the short list of go-to actors when casting mobsters, thugs, toughs, and hoods.

Lucianne Goldberg is a right-wing muckraker, former spy for Richard Nixon, occasional literary agent, author, talk radio personality, and the woman who convinced Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky.

One of the few women at the top of the Wall Street food chain, Krawcheck is the former president of Bank of America's global wealth and investment-management unit and senior executive at Citigroup. These days, she spends her time working the media circuit and advising start-ups.

The "man with the golden ears," Clive Davis is the legendary record label head who served as the CEO of BMG until 2008. He's currently the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment.

Robbins is a movie star, liberal activist, and self-appointed defender of the American Way. He can often be spotted spouting half-coherent political rants to the nearest camera.

Buscemi is the ubiquitous, award-winning, bug-eyed actor whom directors love to kill off midway through movies and TV shows.

Sedaris is a comedian, writer, and occasional waitress best known for the Comedy Central show Strangers With Candy and her collaborations with her humorist brother David.

Although she's an accomplished dancer, Broadway actress, and two-time Tony winner, Neuwirth is still best known-much to her chagrin-as the prim Dr. Lilith Sternin from the TV shows Cheers.

A socialite and former contributing editor at Vogue, Sykes wrote the 2004 chick-lit novel Bergdorf Blondes.

A legendary (and legendarily nutty) art director, George Lois is best known for his series of famous Esquire covers and for conceiving MTV's first marketing campaign.

McCourt is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American author of Angela's Ashes, a memoir of his horrific childhood. He passed away in 2009.

A popular director of knee-slapping TV commercials, Buckley's a favorite of advertisers and is regularly hired to direct a handful of spots for the annual ad orgy also known as the Super Bowl.

Joshua may be the youngest of the three Foer boys, but he's wasted no time proving himself as irksome and precocious as older brother Jonathan. Joshua's science-related freelance articles have appeared in Slate and The Nation, and in 2011 he published his first book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.

Brown is the founder of the massive makeup and skincare product line that bears her name.

Moore's place in history was cemented with her beloved, groundbreaking series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Tim Quinn is the resident makeup guru at Giorgio Armani.

Possibly New York's most famous hair stylist, Frédéric Fekkai's been cutting hair in the city for a quarter century. If you're a beautiful socialite, chances are he's also tried to hit on you.

Possibly the most in-demand hair stylist in New York, Hershberger owns the exclusive Meatpacking District salon that bears her name.

The French make-up artist makes actresses camera-ready-and her cosmetics and skincare line is purchased by decidedly non-superstar women everywhere.

Since achieving overnight fame at age 21 with his debut, Less Than Zero, Ellis has been one of America's most talked-about novelists—and possibly its most reviled.