One of the city's top heart surgeons, Isom heads the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell.

The chairman of the department of plastic surgery at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (MEETH), Aston is one of the most popular plastic surgeons with aging socialites. He's also married to one—Muffie Potter Aston.

Adams is chairman of the cardiothoracic surgery department at Mount Sinai and one of the city's top heart surgeons.

A renowned cardiologist and the former president of the American Heart Association, Fuster heads up Mount Sinai Heart and serves as a professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Dan Baker is one of the most exclusive—and most expensive—plastic surgeons in New York. He's the ex-husband of socialite Nina Griscom.

The man who got Anderson Cooper $1 million for his memoir, Luke Janklow is a literary agent at the mid-size agency Janklow & Nesbit. His father is Mort Janklow.

Franzen is known for his National Book Award-winning novel The Corrections, and his public spat with Oprah after she picked it for her book club.

Salman Rushdie is the Booker prize-winning author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, a newly minted knight, and the recipient of a death sentence. He's better known to tabloid readers as the grizzled old man who was once married to Padma Lakshmi.

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.

The white-suited Tom Wolfe is one of the original pioneers of New Journalism, a movement in the 1960s that merged literary techniques with reportage.

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A self-proclaimed "agent of change," Godin is the author of 11 books, a sermonizer on the future of marketing, and a popular blogger.

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Schmidt-Holtz is the CEO of Sony BMG Entertainment, the joint venture between—you guessed it—the Japanese electronics/entertainment giant Sony and the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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.

A protégé of Julian Robertson and Paul Tudor Jones, Dwight Anderson runs the hedge fund Ospraie Management LLC. One of the highest profile "junior tigers" working on Wall Street, his fund was been particularly hard hit by the global financial crisis and he was forced to close down his main commodities fund. He's since attempted to bounce bank by raising $100 million to start up two new funds.

Marron was a towering presence on Wall Street during his years as CEO of PaineWebber and chairman of UBS America. Today, as the founder Lightyear Capital, he carries more clout than any other private equity fund honcho with a measly $3 billion under his control.

Hutchins is one of the founders of Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm that takes big stakes in big technology companies.