Scott Turow
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of eight best-selling works of fiction, including his first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987) and his most recent, Ordinary Heroes published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in November, 2005; a novella, Limitations was published as a paperback original in November 2006 by Picador following its serialization in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He has also written two non-fiction books—One L, about his experience as a law student, and Ultimate Punishment, a reflection on capital punishment. Mr. Turow has been a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, a national law firm, since 1986, concentrating on white-collar criminal defense, while also devoting a substantial part of his time to pro bono matters. He has served on a number of public bodies, including the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment appointed by Governor George Ryan in 2000 to recommend reforms to Illinois’ death penalty system. Scott Turow is currently a Member of Illinois’ Executive Ethics Commission regulating executive branch employees. He is also a past president of the Authors Guild, and is currently a trustee of Amherst College.
Robert Reich
Robert Reich is one of the nation's leading thinkers about work and the economy. Now Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, he has served under three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He also served on President Barack Obama's economic transition board. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries of the past century.
Reich is the author of 12 books including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages, and the best-sellers Locked in the Cabinet and The Future of Success, which in 2002 was ranked by Business Week magazine as the #2 best-selling business book. His most recent book, Supercapitalism, published in 2007, warned of the perils of an under-regulated and over-leveraged financial system. He has written more than 200 articles on the global economy, the changing nature of work and the centrality of human capital. He is a consultant to many governments and corporations.
Reich's commentaries are heard weekly on public radio by nearly five million people and his columns appear frequently in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other major national newspapers. He appears several times a week on CNBC, and regularly on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
In late 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel prize, in Prague, for his original contributions to world thinking and culture. In 2004, he was named one of America's three most influential opinion leaders on business and the economy, based on a study by Accenture. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal named him one of the nation's top ten thought leaders. He is also an accomplished playwright. In summer of 2005, his new play, Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod.
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall's acting career began with Saturday morning classes at the New York School of the Theatre, followed by, at age fifteen, a year of study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. An introduction to Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland led to a brief modeling career. For Bacall’s second appearance in the magazine’s pages, Vreeland captioned a photo with a mention of the eighteen year old’s acting ambitions. The inside double page spread, and the now famous Red Cross cover shot by photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, caught the attention of Slim Hawks, wife of director Howard Hawks. Upon his wife’s recommendation, Hawks brought Bacall to Hollywood to test for a contract and subsequently signed her. Some six months later, he tested her for the lead in his 1944 film, To Have and Have Not, opposite Humphrey Bogart. The couple went on to co-star in The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and director John Huston’s Key Largo. Married in 1945, they appeared together in the1955 live television presentation of Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest.
Having made her Broadway debut in a walk-on part at age 17, Bacall returned to the stage with starring roles in 1959’s Goodbye Charlie and Cactus Flower in 1965. In 1970 she made a triumphant musical comedy debut as Margo Channing in Applause! based on the film All About Eve, winning her first Tony award before embarking on a year long national tour. She went on to play the role for over a year at London’s West Majestic Theater, a performance recognized with an Evening Standard Award. After a 1977 summer tour of the musical Wonderful Town, she returned to Broadway in 1981 to star in the Peter Stone - Kander & Ebb musical Woman of the Year, again winning a Tony award followed by a national tour. In 1985, Ms. Bacall starred in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at London’s Haymarket Theatre directed by Harold Pinter. She then toured the play for five months across Australia. Bacall returned to Broadway in 1999 for the revival of Noel Coward’s Waiting in the Wings.
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