PICTURED LEFT: James Caan, actor, Dogville
PICTURED RIGHT: James Patterson, author of shaggy dog thrillers

PICTURED LEFT: Liam Neeson, actor in The White Rose
PICTURED RIGHT: Rick Moody, author of The Black Veil

PICTURED LEFT: John Updike: “This middle-aged affluent will self-destruct in five seconds.”
PICTURED RIGHT: Peter Graves: “This message will self-destruct in five seconds.”

PICTURED LEFT: Martin Amis, bad boy of British literature.
PICTURED RIGHT: Keith Richards, bad boy of British invasion.

PICTURED LEFT: Anne Rice, writes novels dealing with undead vampires.
PICTURED RIGHT: Angelica Houston, appeared in The Dead.

PICTURED LEFT: Virginia Woolf, part of the Bloomsbury coterie.
PICTURED RIGHT: Lauren Ambrose, “Clare” from Six Feet Under, part of an art school coterie.

PICTURED LEFT: Dave Eggers, who works on the 826 Valencia Project.
PICTURED RIGHT: David Marcus, who works on the Genesis Project.