The newly-promoted executive VP at the Hachette Book Group, Pietsch was previously publisher of Little, Brown, where he was the force behind such money-makers as Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

A Broadway actor, Martin played Detective Ed Green on Law & Order until he exited the show in 2008.

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Possibly the most temperamental father in America, Baldwin has managed to go from hunky actor to paunchy hothead while still landing high-profile acting jobs.

Nesbit, one of the most powerful literary agents in the biz, is co-head of Janklow & Nesbit.

McCormick is one-half of boutique literary agency McCormick & Williams.

Spevak is the CEO of Equinox, the increasingly omnipresent chain of high-tech-looking gyms that Danny Errico founded in 1991.

Brody is best known for his Oscar-winning role in 2003's The Pianist and for the kiss he planted on Halle Barry after he won the award.

A writer, humorist, and lit world social fixture, Fran Lebowitz is renowned for her flip one-liners and for her scathing essays on weighty topics like race.

A novelist, literary critic and essayist, Ozick is considered one of America's foremost fiction writers.

A New York-based novelist and journalist whose varied interests and talents are evident in his six novels and frequent non-fiction contributions to The New York Times, Salon, and The Village Voice.

A painter and sculptor, Feinstein is also the buxom inspiration behind many of hubby John Currin's paintings.

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The self-described "most famous health and fitness guru in America," David Kirsch is best known as the guy who got Heidi Klum ready for the Victoria's Secret runway just eight weeks after she gave birth.

New York's top podiatrist and a foot expert at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Positano spends his time fixing the feet of professional athletes and women who have been maimed by their Manolos.

Former male model Dowdell runs Peak Performance, the private gym where he whips Victoria's Secret models and A-list actors into shape.

Perricone is the know-it-all dermatologist who tells us what to eat to make ourselves look better, and hawks his own line of ultra-luxe skin care.

Dr. Herbert Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian, the non-profit behemoth that operates Columbia's and Cornell's hospitals along with over 30 other medical facilities in the area.

One of the nation's most high-profile child psychiatrists, Koplewicz is the founder and director of the Child Study Center at NYU and the vice chairman of NYU's psychiatry department. He's also the author of half a dozen books on psychiatric disorders in kids.

Oz isn't the best cardiothoracic surgeon in the city, but thanks to obsessive self-promotion and near constant appearances on Oprah, the Discovery Health network, and his own program The Dr. Oz Show, he's certainly the most famous.