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1. Harvey Keitel
   Born in Brooklyn, Harvey Keitel was a delinquent who was thrown out of vocational school for truancy. This ultimately led him to Lebanon with the U.S. Marine Corps. When he got returned home, he studied with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. As a struggling actor, he landed some acting roles off-off-Broadway while making a living as a court stenographer and as a shoe salesman.
2. Laurence Harvey -- Director
   In his autobiography Close Up (2004), British actor John Fraser wrote that Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager James Woolf, who "discovered" Harvey in the 1950s. According to Fraser, "As a teenager, [Harvey] started out living with Hermione Baddeley, a blowsy star of intimate revue more than twice his age. Then he married Margaret Leighton, old enough to be his mother, but a woman of style. When this marriage was over, he married Joan Cohn, widow of Harry Cohn, managing director of Columbia Pictures. Throughout all these career marriages, he still managed to string Jimmy Woolf along."
3. Harvey Weinstein -- Weinstein Company
   Guide Note:Bob and Harvey Weinstein are American Film Producers and co-founders of Miramax Films, which they sold to Disney. They currently own and operate the Film production and distribution company, The Weinstein Company.
4. Linus Pauling
   Linus Pauling was a brilliant chemist and an untiring political activist who received Nobel Prizes for chemistry and peace. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 for his chemical research which was centered on the themes of chemical bonding and molecular structure. Published in 1939, his book entitled The Nature of the Chemical Bond remains a landmark study which is still widely read and referenced. Dr. Pauling received the 1962 Nobel Prize for Peace. The award's citation acclaimed him for his work "not only against the testing of nuclear weapons, not only against the spread of these armaments, not only against their very use, but against all warfare as a means of solving international conflicts." Dr. Pauling was the recipient of numerous other awards, including the first Pauling Medal in 1966.
5. Paul Young -- John Paul Young
   With over 4 million sales worldwide, John Paul Young (June 21, 1950–) is an Australian singer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Young moved to Sydney as a child and by the early 1970s had become the lead singer with the Sydney rock band Elm Tree.
6. Joan Collins -- Paul Newman
   Nominated for an Emmy award and winner of the Golden Globe and People’s Choice Award, as well as numerous other awards worldwide, Joan has appeared in more than 55 feature films and dozens of television programmes. Some of her most memorable films are THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING, RALLY ROUND THE FLAG BOYS, THE VIRGIN QUEEN, THE BRAVADOS, THE BIG SLEEP, LAND OF THE PHARAOHS, ROAD TO HONG KONG and THE STUD. She has worked with some of the greatest movie legends including Richard Burton, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Joan Fontaine, Laurence Harvey, Bob Hope, James Mason, Ray Milland, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joanne Woodward, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Nigel Hawthorne. She has guest starred in some of the most popular TV series, such as STAR TREK, STARSKY & HUTCH, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, LOVE BOAT, THE PERSUADERS, SPACE 1999, BATMAN, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., POLICEWOMAN, BARETTA, THE NANNY, WILL & GRACE and ROSEANNE.
7. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller -- Win Rockefeller
   Always avoiding the spotlight, Rockefeller was remembered for handing dimes to those he encountered in public. Married in 1864, Rockefeller outlived his wife Laura Celestia (”Cettie”) Spelman. The Rockefellers had four daughters and one son (John D. Rockefeller, Jr.). “Junior” was largely entrusted with supervision of the foundations.
8. Talk Radio -- Years
   NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning broadcast journalist and author Lou Dobbs announced today that he will be bringing his influential and popular point of view to a coast-to-coast radio audience with a new daily Talk Show. The show, tentatively titled "The Lou Dobbs Show," will be produced, distributed to affiliates and sold to advertisers by United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. ("USRN"), a privately-held radio programming company based in New York. Dobbs, who is best known as the anchor of the nightly "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on CNN, has become an ideological flashpoint himself in recent years and is certain to bring his insightful journalism along with his provocative views to this new daily program. Lou Dobbs and United Stations Chairman/CEO Nicholas J. Verbitsky made this announcement today in New York City.
9. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park -- Orville Wright
   The 1905 Wright Flyer III, a National Historic Landmark, is housed in Wright Hall and forms one unit of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The plane is the third powered machine constructed by Wilbur and Orville Wright and is the one that they considered to be the world's first practical airplane. The national park unit at Carillon includes a replica of the last Dayton bicycle shop where the Wright brothers worked. Together with two wings constructed onto Wright Hall the complex forms the John W. Berry, Sr., Wright Brothers Aviation Center. Carillon Historical Park is a 65-acre site located between the Miami River and a natural moraine, just 2 1/2 miles south of downtown Dayton. Colonel and Mrs. Edward A. Deeds of Dayton were the founders of the park.
10. Betty Field
    Betty Field was a versatile character and lead actress said to have never repeated a characterization. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before appearing professionally in summer stock in 1933. The following year, Field made her Broadway debut and soon became a popular ingenue in George Abbott's comedies of the late '30s. She made her premiere feature-film appearance in What a Life (1939), reprising her role in a Broadway play of the same name. With her provocative performance in Of Mice and Men (1940), she established herself as a significant actress. Throughout the '40s, Field alternated between Broadway plays and Hollywood films.

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