Baitz is a playwright and screenwriter known for his semi-autobiographical plays and for the TV show he created, Brothers & Sisters.

The hard-knock Coles has played wide receiver for the New York Jets, Washington Redskins, and Cincinnati Bengals.

Along with Richard Frankel, Steven Baruch and Thomas Viertel, Routh is a partner in Richard Frankel Productions, one of Broadway's most powerful production companies.

Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman has written the scripts behind some of the most critically and popularly-acclaimed films of all time. Now an octogenarian, Goldman is still an active player in Hollywood, bringing close to 50 years of experience to consult on tomorrow's box-office hits.

A prolific indie producer, Hope has helped shepherd dozens of films to the screen over the past two decades, including In the Bedroom, American Splendor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and The Savages.

Nick Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning op-ed columnist for the New York Times.

A veteran nightlife promoter, in recent years Baker has been involved with such venues as Lotus and Double Seven, along with Jeffrey Jah and David Rabin, and Mansion with Eric Milon.

Toffler is the president of MTV Networks Music and Logo Group, which means he oversees the cable conglomerate's numerous music properties—MTV, MTV2, VH1, CMT—as well as gay channel Logo. As the president of MTV Films, he's also the man you can thank for Jackass and Napoleon Dynamite.

Don Hill was the gray-haired veteran scenester and the founder of the SoHo rock club that bore his name. He passed away in 2011, and the club has since closed.

As a master mixer, longtime DJ, and rap icon, Funkmaster Flex lives up to his catchy moniker. He is also really, really into cars.

Larry Silverstein

The patriarch of the family that has controlled the New York Times for more than a century, Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger Sr. served as publisher of the paper for three decades. Current Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is his son. He passed away in 2012.

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (or "Pinch") is the chairman and publisher of the New York Times, which his family has owned for more than a century.

The pretty-boy actor who starred in Pretty Woman and the very first two-time winner of People's "Sexiest Man Alive" award, Gere is better known these days as Hollywood's most prominent Buddhist.

Joanna Coles

Keith Gessen

A longtime veteran of the MTV machine, Norman served as president of MTV from 2005 to February 2008. She went on to become the CEO of OWN, Oprah Winfrey's TV network, but was dismissed in 2011 due to mediocre ratings. She's since taken on an executive editor position for the Huffington Post's "BlackVoices" page.

A rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah has perhaps the best bling in all of hip-hop. He's a Sunni Muslim these days.

RZA is one of the founding members of hip-hop collective the Wu Tang Clan. These days, he pays the bills by composing scores for movies and TV shows.

A protégé of the late Carrie Donovan, Wells has been the editor-in-chief of Allure since it was founded in 1991.