Nathan Lane is an award-winning star of stage, screen, and television. Most recently on Broadway in Terrence McNally s "It s Only a Play", he has won two Tony awards, five Drama Desk Awards, two Obies, and the Olivier Award. On television he has recently had recurring roles on "Modern Family" and "The Good Wife". He has received six primetime Emmy nominations, and has won two daytime Emmys and the People s Choice Award. He has made over thirty-five films, including "The Birdcage", "The Lion King", "Stuart Little", and "The Producers". In 2006 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2008 he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Bette Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. She lives in New York City.

Andrew Bergman (b. 1945) is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. After receiving a PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Bergman sold "Tex X", a novella about a black sheriff in the Old West, to Warner Bros. The studio hired him to turn his story into a screenplay, as part of a team of comedy legends led by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. The result was "Blazing Saddles" (1974), which is widely regarded as one of the funniest films of all time.After that early success, Bergman published the first two novels in a mystery series starring Jack LeVine, a hard-boiled Jewish PI. After "The Big Kiss-Off" "of 1944" and "Hollywood and LeVine", he continued writing and directing films, producing such classics as "Fletch", "The Freshman", and "Soapdish". In 2001 he returned to LeVine in "Tender Is LeVine". Bergman continues to live and write in New York City.