Bruce Springsteen aka The Boss

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter recording and touring with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
His nicknam is "The Boss".
Springsteen probably is best known for his album Born in the U.S.A. (1984), which sold 15 million copies in the U.S. and became one of the best-selling albums of all time, with seven singles hitting the Top 10, and the massively successful world tour that followed it. The title track was a bitter commentary on the treatment of Vietnam veterans, some of whom were Springsteen's friends and bandmates.

Succes 2010: Wolfgang Puck, chef de top mondial

Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions.

Following the 1981 publication of his first cookbook, Modern French Cooking for the American Kitchen based on his Ma Maison recipes, Puck opened the restaurant Spago on the Sunset Strip in 1982. Fifteen years later, in 1997, Puck opened the award-winning Spago in Beverly Hills, which has been recognized as one of the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. since 2004. His success enabled him to launch the Wolfgang Puck Companies which includes the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. and Wolfgang Puck Catering. The Wolfgang Puck Companies encompasses over 20 fine dining restaurants, premium catering services, more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express operations, and kitchen and food merchandise, including cookbooks and canned foods.

Puck is The Honorary Chair Chef for the "Five Star Sensation" Benefit in Cleveland, Ohio every two years helping to bring $10 Million Dollars to support The Ireland Cancer Foundation of University Hospitals.

Wolfgang Puck's favorite food is macaroons. :)

Succes 2010: Paul M. Nurse Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, FRS is a British geneticist/cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.

Succes 2010: Oliver E. Williamson, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics

Succes 2010: Mark Shuttleworth, primul "afronaut". Costul biletului: 20 de milioane de dolari

Mark Richard Shuttleworth, antreprenor din Africa de Sud, este cel de-al doilea turist spaţial şi primul african care ajunge în Spaţiu. A platit circa 20 de milioane de dolari pentru "excursie".

Shuttleworth locuieşte în prezent la Londra şi are dublă cetăţenie sud-africană şi engleză.

Succes 2010: Terry Gilliam, singurul Monty Python american

Terrence Vance Gilliam este un regizor și membru al grupului britanic Monty Python. Este singurul membru al grupului născut în afara Marii Britanii in Minnesota, Statele Unite.

Dupa destramarea grupului Monty Python, Gilliam a devenit scenograf și regizor de film. Filmele sale au o importantă componentă fantastico-ironică, abordând probleme de identitate, integrare socială, libertate, integritate mentală. Caracterele reale sunt acompaniate de personaje simbolice si mitologice, un loc aparte având piticii, cavalerii apocaliptici, toate plasate într-un mediu baroc, inconfundabil din punct de vedere stilistic.

Printre succesele sale se numară Brazil (1985), o adaptare dupa 1984, romanul lui George Orwell, Regele pescar (1991), unul dintre cele mai frumoase basme ale New York City și ale Central Park-ului, 12 maimute (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, o poveste halucinogenă si Frații Grimm (2005). Actorii săi favoriți sunt, pe lânga foștii colegi din Monty Python, Jeff Bridges, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Depp, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Jeter, Simon Jones, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, Jack Purvis, Peter Vaughan and Robin Williams.

Succes 2010: Klaus Tschütscher, prim-ministrul Liechtensteinului