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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated west-northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for ... ~Wikipedia

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West Hollywood (abbreviated WeHo), a city in Los Angeles County, California, was founded on 29 November 1984. The city, along with Beverly Hills, is surrounded completely by the City of Los Angeles. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Departmen... ~Wikipedia

Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated actor. He is best known for his roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D., the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother and as a parody of himsel... ~Wikipedia

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Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American television and film actor, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and for the role of Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Segel s... ~Wikipedia

Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (pronounced /ʍiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American writer, director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the well... ~Wikipedia

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Davis is known primarily as a stage actress, and won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a ... ~Wikipedia

Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American film actor, director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying... ~Wikipedia

Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an Emmy-nominated American actor, writer and producer. He stars in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men opposite Charlie Sheen. He has received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Sup... ~Wikipedia

Angus Turner Jones (born October 8, 1993) is an American child actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as "Jake" in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003-present). ~Wikipedia

Tyler Perry (born September 14, 1969) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of indie films and stage plays. His best-known character is "Madea", who is a physically imposing and overbearing, but well-inten... ~Wikipedia

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York Cit... ~Wikipedia

Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945), better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known... ~Wikipedia

Taylor Daniel Lautner (born February 11, 1992) is an American actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for his 2005 performances in the family films The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and as Jacob Black ... ~Wikipedia

Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her film roles in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed The Village and Lady in the Water, and as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3. She will soon star as Katherin... ~Wikipedia

Paramount Pictures Corporation is a major global American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912, it is the oldest running movie studio in Hollywood, beating Universal Studios by a month. P... ~Wikipedia

Halle Maria Berry (IPA: /ˈhælɪ ˈbɛrɪ/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Acade... ~Wikipedia

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Paula Julie Abdul (pronounced /ˈæbduːl/ "AB-dool"; born June 19, 1962) is a Grammy Award-winning American pop singer, dancer, Emmy Award-winning choreographer, and television personality. Married to Emilio Estevez between 19... ~Wikipedia

Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ~Wikipedia

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Sandra Annette Bullock, IPA: ˈbʊlək (born July 26, 1964) is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award-nominated American-German actor. She came to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Spe... ~Wikipedia

Demi Kutcher (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962) is an American actress. She is better known as Demi Moore, using the surname of her first husband, singer-songwriter Freddy Moore. (She pronounces her name "dem-EE," with the emp... ~Wikipedia

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Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in The Notebook, Half Nelson, and Lars and the Real Girl. ~Wikipedia

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film actor and director. He has also been nominated for three other Academy Awards in recognition of his roles in I Am Sam, Sweet and Lowdown and Dead Man ... ~Wikipedia

Simon Phillip Cowell (born October 7, 1959) is an English artist-and-repertoire ("A&R") executive, television personality/producer and entrepreneur, best known as a judge on such TV shows as Pop Idol, American Idol, The X Factor, and Br... ~Wikipedia

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. It has produced or distributed more t... ~Wikipedia

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She came to international prominence in the 1970s, starring in a number of critically-acclaimed cult classics for renowned direc... ~Wikipedia

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Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jan... ~Wikipedia

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figu... ~Wikipedia

Nicole Elikolani Prescovia Scherzinger (also known as Nicole Kea) (born June 29, 1978) is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, and occasional actress best known for her role as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls. ~Wikipedia

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Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956 in San Fernando Valley, California) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor, voice actor, writer and director, best known in his role as Hal, the father of the family in the Fox Network television situation co... ~Wikipedia

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a ... ~Wikipedia

Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II, June 9, 1963) is an American actor, known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Edward Scissorhands. ~Wikipedia

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the... ~Wikipedia

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American award-winning actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era. She... ~Wikipedia

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),... ~Wikipedia

James "Jim" Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English Academy Award-winning, theatre, film and television actor. ~Wikipedia

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Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American television, film and voice over actor. ~Wikipedia

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Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career. ~Wikipedia

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (pronounced /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθɚ/; born July 3, 1962), better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as t... ~Wikipedia

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE) is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion. ~Wikipedia

John William Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film caree... ~Wikipedia

Scarlett I. Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an actress and singer of American and Danish citizenship. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World, Lost... ~Wikipedia

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his glamorous performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and direct... ~Wikipedia

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor. He garnered worldwide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997), and has starred in many other successful films including Romeo + Juliet (1996), Catch Me If You Can (20... ~Wikipedia

Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian television and film actor. He came to prominence in the television sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1998–2001), before establishing a career as a Hollywood motion picture actor, starring in ... ~Wikipedia

Rachel Anne McAdams (born October 7, 1976) is a BAFTA Award-nominated Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers and Red Eye. ~Wikipedia

Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking. She is also noted for her social and polit... ~Wikipedia

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, fantasy and science fiction. ~Wikipedia

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Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American stage and screen actress. ~Wikipedia

Michael James Vogel (born 17 July 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. Vogel began acting in 2001, and has since appeared in several notable films and series[citation needed], including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sisterhood of t... ~Wikipedia

Justin Drew Bieber (pronounced /ˈbiːbər/, BEE-bər; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian pop-R&B singer. His performances on YouTube were seen by Scooter Braun, who later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Ush... ~Wikipedia

William Hall Macy, Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, double Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on... ~Wikipedia

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Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. A former United States Marine who def... ~Wikipedia

Tenitra Michelle Williams (born July 23, 1980), commonly known as Michelle Williams, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is better known for being one third of the hugely successful R&B girl group Destiny's Child, ... ~Wikipedia

Blake Christina Lively (born August 25, 1987) is an American actress. She stars in the book-based TV series Gossip Girl, and has appeared in several films including Accepted and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. ~Wikipedia

Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. Beverly Hills and the City of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles, It is part of the so-called "Golden Triangle" of Beverl... ~Wikipedia

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses in recent years. This established her as a r... ~Wikipedia

William Hall "Billy" Bush (born October 13, 1971) is the co-host of the syndicated NBC Universal TV show Access Hollywood. He is a first cousin of George W. Bush. ~Wikipedia

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American-Australian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Gibson moved to Australia when he was 12 years old and he later stu... ~Wikipedia

Robert A. "Bob" Iger (born February 10, 1951) is the head of The Walt Disney Company. He was the president of Capital Cities/ABC from 1994-1999, has been the president of the Walt Disney Corporation since January 2000 and CEO since October ... ~Wikipedia

Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer. After appearing in several television roles during the late 1990s and early 2000s, she became known to young audiences for playing Maddie Fitzpatrick on the Disney Channel... ~Wikipedia

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She began acting when she was eleven months old. Barrymore made her screen debut in Altered... ~Wikipedia

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 31, 1971; pronounced /ˌjuːən məˈgrɛgər/) is a Scottish actor who has had significant success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. He is ranked No.36 in Empire magazine's "... ~Wikipedia

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Sharon Waxman is an American journalist who has written for The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others.. She is the author of the book Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System, whi... ~Wikipedia

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. ~Wikipedia

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian actress, model, and entrepreneur. Vergara had been widely known in South and Central America initially from her modeling work, and then in the late 90s for co-hosting two TV s... ~Wikipedia

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), known popularly as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor... ~Wikipedia

Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. ~Wikipedia

Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor. He is probably best known for his role in the classic sitcom Cheers as Woody Boyd. Notable film roles include Mickey K... ~Wikipedia

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning American film, stage and television actor. He is best known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Videodr... ~Wikipedia

Ben Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at RADA. Whishaw is perhaps best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, and plays the lead character in Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. ~Wikipedia

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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage ... ~Wikipedia

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; baptised Norma Jeane Baker June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe-winning, critically-acclaimed American actress, singer, model, Hollywood icon, cultural icon, fashion icon, pop icon, film... ~Wikipedia

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen ... ~Wikipedia

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