Barbra Joan Streisand (STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theatre actress.
She has also achieved note as a composer, liberal political activist, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy
Awards, nine Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, and is one of the very few entertainers to have won all
of these honors, although she has yet to win a competitive Tony Award. In 2008 she was inducted as a Kennedy Centre Honoree.
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian,
writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have
made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and
his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them.
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and
singer. He is the second highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night
Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest
Stand-ups of All Time.
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer,
and performer, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana".
In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equaled only by Frank Sinatra, Michael
Jackson and Johnny Mathis.
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, musician, screenwriter and film producer. He
is the founder of Happy Madison Productions, a film production company that also developed the television series Rules of
Engagement. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed
over US$100 million at the box office.
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter,
composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks
is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award.
Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time.
