OBSESSED
Why I'm Labeled A Taxidermy Lover

Doug Bradley, 06/27/12

Former director of communications for the University of Wisconsin System; Vietnam veteran

Stephen H. Warner was killed in an ambush near the Laotian border on February 14, 1971. He didn't have to be there. He wasn't supposed to be killed.

Jennifer Weiner, 06/27/12

New York Times bestselling author

You don't have to don the literary equivalent of a Tom Wolfe suit to be published or pretend you're a man, with a man's concerns and a man's voice, to get attention? My mind was officially blown.

Andrew Fish, 06/27/12

Writer

Since watching Hemingway & Gellhorn a few weeks back I've been spending much of my free time absorbed in this piece of history and personality I'd never heard of before.

Claudia Zelevansky, 06/27/12

Theater director, educator and arts administrator

To be honest, I suspect my hands would still shake if I did it again today. I still might think: Who am I to be writing to her? I'm still not brave in the way I imagine her to be, but these days I usually put the letter in the mailbox in the end. And Nora Ephron gets some credit for that.

Johnny Nevin, 06/27/12

Music and Dance writer, 4dancers.org

Balance is something that Billy Siegenfeld knows inside out. In his Jump Rhythm Technique, and in the art of Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, he explores where balance comes from and what it's made of, where to find it and how to use it.

Carole Bayer Sager, 06/27/12

Singer and songwriter

She said it all. Or most of it all. And what she didn't say or write we will never again hear. At least not the way Nora would have said it or written it.

Tribeca, 06/27/12

Movies, Film Culture and More

In Stella Days, Martin Sheen gives a magnificent performance as Father Barry, a progressive priest whose wisdom and passion for cinema inspire those around him.

Regina Weinreich, 06/27/12

Author, Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics

Deftly bringing both the edgy past and cleaned-up present together with humor and heart, Nancy Savoca's new movie, Union Square, features a stunning performance by Mira Sorvino.

John Corso, 06/27/12

Art critic

Liam Gillick's tongue-in-cheek show at Casey Kaplan attests to an exciting career in transition: room to grow, fluid self-criticality, and an evolving stance on the source of meaning in art.

Meghan O'Keefe, 06/27/12

Comedian and writer

Nora Ephron was never really a celebrity to me so much as she was a dream weaver. I grew up watching her films in my living room. They fed my youthful appetites for romance and humor. Most of all, these films shaped my dreams of love.

Jon Chattman, 06/26/12

Published Author, thecheappop.com/asidesmusic.com founder, Blogger

LP isn't just a singer/songwriter -- she's a true artist and by the time you finish reading and watching this, she'll already be too big for this post.

Howard Fineman, 06/26/12

Editorial Director, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

The Newsroom is a paint-by-numbers Sorkin effort, given a frisson of media interest and buzz only because the workplace this time is the media itself. Nothing gets us going like someone we don't like preaching to us about our shortcomings.

Lynda Resnick, 06/26/12

Vice Chairman, Roll Global

Her writing was flip and deep. She thought about things, everyday things, and then wrote about them in the most approachable way. Like "Come on girls, we see this thing alike, don't we?"

James Campion, 06/27/12

Political Analyst, 'The Aquarian Weekly'

Alice Cooper is an American treasure and he knows it. Once the viscous, drunken villain of rock and roll and a threat to the very decency of our moral foundation, he has transformed into the clean and sober fist-pumping defiant champion of our hearts.

Amanda Guinzburg, 06/26/12

Writer, editor, photographer

As much as I trusted her, my mother's constant companion from my earliest years through my young teens, Nora seemed always, inexplicably, to trust me too.

Lisa Mirza Grotts, 06/27/12

Author, Etiquette Expert

Okay, so I'm a royalist. I admit it. Simply put, I love tradition, and nowhere else in the world can you find such pageantry and history and tradition as in London.

David Sable, 06/27/12

Global CEO of Y&R

What really separates us from the rest of the animal world? Storytelling is as old as we are and will last longer than any mere technology used to enhance it.