Joy Bauer has built one of the largest nutrition centers in the country. Located in Manhattan and Westchester, Joy Bauer Nutrition, provides counseling to both adults and children dealing with a variety of nutritional concerns, including weight management, diabetes, eating disorders, cardiac rehabilitation, sports nutrition, food allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, pregnancy, lactation, and menopause. ... read full bio

There is no more versatile and accomplished American writer than Joyce Carol Oates. The author of many books, Oates has penned bestselling novels, critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, a recent memoir, A Widow's Story, and an unlikely bestseller, On Boxing. Her remarkable literary industry - which includes work as an editor and anthologist... read full bio

Judge Glenda Hatchett | Taking her message of say what you mean, and mean what you say, out of the courtroom on her hit show Judge Hatchett and on the road to the public, Judge Glenda Hatchett is hosting a parenting conference this summer, focusing on empowering parents and strengthening families.... read full bio

As the judge on the number one-rated new television show Divorce Court, Mablean Ephriam, Esq. is by turns tough, compassionate, and very funny. It would certainly require a sense of humor to deal with the divorcing couples on her show, who scream, cry, swear, insult each other, and reveal the most intimate secrets of their failed marriages--all while the cameras... read full bio

Judith Jamison - American dancer, Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - is a legendary icon in the world of the performing arts. Ms. Jamison, who as a dancer with the troupe, from 1965 to 1980, became the most stellar of modern dance's female performers, was appointed Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance... read full bio

A prolific writer and former actress, Judith Sachs entertains as she instructs, hence her popularity as a speaker and spokesperson. Coming from a long line of physicians, she is well versed in the healthcare topics she addresses. Her many books include: Nature's Prozac, What Women Should Knows About Menopause, What You can Do About Osteoporosis, When Someone You Love had... read full bio

Julia Sweeney is an American actress and comedian who lives in Hollywood, California. She is best known for her roles on Saturday Night Live, especially as the androgynous character Pat." She is also well known for her critically acclaimed one-woman monologue, God Said, Ha! in which she addressed her experience of surviving cancer. A film version of the show was... read full bio

The daughter of Philip M. Hatfield (a radiologist) and The Boston Globe fashion critic Julie Hatfield, Juliana was born in Maine and grew up in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the seminal Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved... read full bio

Julianne Moore began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, achieving recognition in several independent films before her performance in Boogie Nights brought her... read full bio

Julie Morgenstern, dubbed the "queen of putting people's lives in order" by USA Today, is an organizing and time management expert, business productivity consultant, and speaker. A New York Times bestselling author, Julie's five books are timeless reference guides that are insightful, reader-friendly and jam packed with innovative strategies. Each volume features techniques and observations culled from her 20 years... read full bio

John Jewel Smith was born, diagnosed with Down's Syndrome and two inoperable holes in his heart. At the age of two, a rare form of meningitis left him profoundly deaf. She put movie acting on hold so she could stay home to raise her son. Later she turned to the real estate business to support herself and... read full bio

Juliette Lewis appeared in The Wonder Years as Wayne's girlfriend in Episodes 24, 34 and 36. Lewis first garnered international attention and acclaim in 1991 with her turn as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Over the next few years, she won further critical... read full bio

There's usually a wide-eyed look accompanying one who witnesses Junior's unique instrumental prowess for the first time... or the second, or third, for that matter. Junior invented his own guitar, one that combines the standard 6-string guitar and the steel guitar. He calls it the guit-steel." In Junior's hands, the guit-steel is an amazing tool, a means to creating some... read full bio

Junot Díaz can now add the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to an already long list of accolades that have been awarded to his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. A true literary triumph, this heartbreaking, at times hilarious, always dazzling story of the endless human capacity to persevere in the name of love confirms Díaz as one... read full bio

Terius Gray may call himself Juvenile, but he is no young buck when it comes to the music business. The New Orleans native has been consistently putting it down for fifteen years. He has released eight albums which have spawned some of rap's most popular club hits, started his own UTP label imprint, and unbeknownst to many, laid the foundation... read full bio