In 2000, Affleck partnered with Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey to form LivePlanet, Inc. Their first endeavor, "Project Greenlight", aired on HBO and drew critical raves for its behind-the-scenes look at the challenges faced by a first-time filmmaker. The second season of "Project Greenlight" aired on HBO at the beginning of June 2003 and a third season is currently in the works. Affleck and Bailey also co-wrote the innovative drama "Push, Nevada", which aired on ABC in the fall of 2002.

By the age of four, Raquel had already filmed a children's safety video for Boo Boo Productions. She had also recorded several children's songs, which will soon be released with a companion book.

Raquel made her television debut on HBO's "A Little Curious." She also appeared in "Nick Jr.," Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth", "Third Watch", several episodes of "Sesame Street" and numerous commercials.

Raquel lives in Long Island with her parents, her two brothers and two sisters. She studies gymnastics and is on her third belt in karate.

Raquel has two ferrets (Mia and Chia) and hopes to one day appear in a movie with them.

One of Raquel's dreams has already come true. She wanted, some day, to meet her idol Jennifer Lopez. How ironic that in Raquel's first film, she plays her daughter.

Tyler's other film credits include: a starring role in the Bernardo Bertolucci film "Stealing Beauty" opposite Jeremy Irons, Pat O'Connor's "Inventing the Abbotts" with Joaquin Phoenix and Billy Crudup, and Michael Bay's "Armageddon" opposite Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. More recently, she has been seen in Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" alongside Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, and Charles Dutton, the Jake Scott-directed "Plunkett & MacLeane" and "Onegin" co-starring Ralph Fiennes.

Tyler is the new face for Parfums Givenchy, the first celebrity to be connected to the designer since Audrey Hepburn more than 40 years ago. She also serves as National Ambassador for the US Fund for UNICEF.

The turning point for Carlin came in Fort Worth, Texas (1959) in KOXL. Together with newsman Jack Burns, he started developing comedy routines for an eventual nightclub act that led to a two-year stint, playing leading clubs and making a first appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jack Paar. They also recorded an album, "Burns & Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight", on ERA Records.

After splitting with Burns in 1962, Carlin spent about a year working in nightclubs without much success. In 1963, he found the Café au Go Go in Greenwich Village and spent the better part of two years developing his comic style. It was in this folk/Jazz setting that he developed the first bits that got him on television with "The Indian Sergeant", "Wonderful Wino" and "Hippy Dippy Weatherman".

In 1965, Carlin began to get extensive TV exposure: fifty-eight appearances in 1965 and 1966 alone, mostly on "Merv Griffin" and "Mike Douglas". Network spots during that period included "The Hollywood Palace", "Jimmy Dean", "Roger Miller" and Carlin was a regular on "Kraft Summer Music Hall" with John Davidson, and the following year he starred with Buddy Greco and Buddy Rich on "Away We Go", the summer replacement for Jackie Gleason. His first album, "Take-Offs and Put-Ons", was released in 1967 on RCA Victor. Between 1967 and 1970, he made another eighty TV appearances, including "Ed Sullivan", "Tom Jones", "Steve Allen", "Jackie Gleason" and "Carol Burnett". He also worked in all major nightclubs, including the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

In 1972, a recording contract led to the release of "FM & AM", and album that won a Grammy Award after going gold. It was the first of four successive gold albums that Carlin recorded for Little David Records during the first half on the 1970s. In all, he released fourteen solo albums, ten of which have been nominated for Grammy awards. There have been four separate collections, the most notable being 1999's "George Carlin: The Little David Years (1971-1977)".

In addition to recordings, Carlin has found wide exposure through cable television, specifically Home Box Office. In 1977, he taped "On Location: George Carlin at USC". This special at the California campus was the first in a string of twelve HBO comedy concert broadcasts, including the highly regarded "Carlin at Carnegie", taped at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1982, and the groundbreaking "Jammin' in New York", broadcast live in 1992 from the Paramount Theatre in Madison Square Garden.

To date, Carlin's HBO specials have garnered three Emmy nominations and won six CableACE awards, and thus far eight of these shows have been released in two separate DVD packages. In the early 1990s, Carlin picked up two additional Emmy nominations for the "Mister Conductor" in forty-five episodes of the critically acclaimed PBS children's show "Shining Time Station".

In 1997, Carlin ventured into a new field as Hyperion published his first book, "Braindroppings", a collection of original routines, one-liners, commentaries and essays. The "book-on-tape" version, read by Carlin himself, won the 2001 Grammy in the Best Spoken Comedy category. He followed this title with "Napalm & Silly Putty" in April 2001, and both books found staying power on The New York Times bestseller list, the latter reaching #1 in its second week. A third book, "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?" will be published by Hyperion in the fall of 2004.

In August 2001, "The George Carlin Collection", a special package of Carlin's first four HBO stand-up concert shows (1977-1984) was released on DVD and VHS. In November 2001, Carlin performed his twelfth special "Complaints and Grievances", live, from New York's Beacon Theatre. The album of the same name was released in December.

Recently he has been doing extensive voice-over work in three animated films now in production: "Tarzan II", "The Wild Live", and "Happily N'ever After".

Having returned for some time to New York to appear in the Broadway production of "The Graduate" with Kathleen Turner in the U.S. Most recently, Biggs was most recently seen on-screen in the latest Woody Allen project, "Anything Else," opposite Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito and Stockard Channing. He will soon be seen co-starring again with Christina Ricci in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling biography, "Prozac Nation." In the Miramax film, Biggs plays 'Rafe,' Elizabeth's boyfriend in director Erik Skjoldbjaerg's film.

The fall of 2003 marked the release of the last in the trilogy of the "American Pie" series, "American Wedding." His film credits also include the romantic comedy "Saving Silverman" with Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Amanda Peet; the Amy Heckerling film "Loser;" and the romantic comedy, "Boys and Girls" opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Claire Forlani. Biggs began his career in television on the soap opera "As the World Turns," for which he won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series. He also appeared on the shows "Drexel's Class" and "Total Security."

History was made in January 2001, when Lopez became the first woman to have the number one movie and the number one album in the same week. The romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner" co-starring Matthew McConaughey and released by Columbia Pictures, was the nation's top grossing film while her sophomore recording release "J.Lo" debuted at the top of the Billboard Top 200 Chart.

In 2002, Lopez was awarded "ShoWest Female Star of the Year." Additionally, the National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino advocacy group in the nation, named her "Entertainer of the Year" at the American Latino Media Arts Awards (ALMA) for TV and film.

Lopez made her feature debut in the highly acclaimed feature "Mi Familia," garnering an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role as the young mother 'Maria Sanchez.' Her other film credits include Oliver Stone's "U-Turn," "Money Train," with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, Francis Ford Coppola's "Jack" with Robin Williams, "Blood and Wine" opposite Jack Nicholson, Luis Mandoki's "Angel Eyes," Michael Apted's thriller "Enough" and "Anaconda" with Jon Voigt, Eric Stoltz and Ice Cube. Her voice can also be heard in the animated feature "Antz" opposite Woody Allen and Sylvestor Stallone.

In December 2002, Lopez starred in Revolution's romantic comedy "Maid in Manhattan" co-starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson. The Wayne Wang film opened at number one at the box office with close to $19 million; establishing an opening day record for her.

In addition to "Ed," Mike has made numerous television appearances including a memorable turn as Sen. Anthony Merino on "The West Wing" (NBC). Mike starred twice last year opposite Gene Wilder in "Murder in a Small Town" and "The Lady in Question" for A&E. He appeared last summer in an arc on "Falcone" (CBS) and he was a series regular on the highly acclaimed "E Z Streets" (CBS). His other television appearances include the pilots "Jersey" (NBC), "The Doyles" (ABC), and the series "Hardball." His MOWs include "The Last Don" and he is a veteran of many comic and dramatic episodes including "Third Rock from the Sun," "Martial Law," "Newsradio," and "Frasier."

Root voices 'Chode' in "Tripping the Rift," Sci-Fi Channel's first animated series, premiering March 4, 2004. This edgy half-hour CGI-animated series is based on the award-winning short film of the same name. "Tripping the Rift" follows the adventures of The Free Enterprise, a smuggling vessel led by Root's character, a stumpy purple alien. 'Chode,' along with his colorful group of misfit shipmates, battles arch enemies and new obstacles in space each week.

Fans continue to approach Root with how much they adored 'Jimmy James' on "NewsRadio." He found inspiration for the eccentric, down-to-earth, cut-to-the-chase businessman and owner of the fictional WNYX news radio stationÑin his own father. "My father, a construction supervisor, just knew how to get things done in a simple, to-the-point manner." The half hour comedy, "NewsRadio" ran on NBC TV from 1995-1999.

Rave reviews came his way from critics who adored his performance as the blind 'Radio Station Man,' in the Coen Brothers feature "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" for Universal/Disney. He co-stars in his second Coen Brothers film, "The Ladykillers," out, Friday, March 26.

He starred as the put-upon 'Milton Waddams' in the Twentieth Century Fox film, "Office Space," with Jennifer Aniston, released in 1999. This comedy about the plight of white-collar workers in today's corporate world marked a unique re-teaming for Root and director Mike Judge, who debuted in his first live-action feature film. Judge, creator of the Emmy winning hit animated television series "King of the Hill" cast Root as the voice of 'Bill,' Hank Hill's next door neighbor on the series. Bill is described as "a lonely-hearted Army barber with low self-esteem." He also provides the voices of 'Strickland,' Hank's boss and 'Topsy.' " King of the Hill" won the 1998-99 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.

He provided the voices for two other animated series, in Columbia Tri-Star's "The Big Guy" and "Rusty the Robot," as 'Donovan' and Disney's "Star Command," as 'Sheriff.' His features include Twentieth Century Fox's "Ice Age," in which he voiced a hilariously menacing 'Rhino' and 'Zeb' in Walt Disney's feature film, "Country Bears."

Numerous feature-film credits include: the upcoming "Raving Genius Dodgeball: A True Underdog's Story" and "Anchorman." He also starred in "Bicentennial Man," "Krippendorf's Tribe," "Bye Bye Love," "Dave," "Kindergarten Cop," "Extreme Justice," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Robocop III," "V.I. Warshawski," "Ghost," "Black Rain," "Crocodile Dundee," "Guilty by Suspicion" and "Stanley and Iris."

Root first TV series was Stephen King's "The Golden Years." He won the role of 'R.O. Moon' in the short-lived series "Harts of the West" and had recurring roles on the award-winning HBO series, "From the Earth to the Moon," "The Betty Broderick Story," "Sweet Justice" and "L.A. Law." He starred on the series "Ladies Man," a half hour comedy for CBS television. His additional TV credits include guest-starring roles on "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," "Grounded for Life," "Malcom in the Middle," "Christy," "Chicago Hope," "NYPD Blue," "Murphy Brown," "Home Improvement," "Party of Five," "Northern Exposure" and "Roseanne."

Root also appeared in the NBC miniseries "Pandora's Clock" and was nominated for a CableACE Award for his performance in the cable movie "Road to Galveston," with Cicely Tyson and Piper Laurie.

Along the way, Smith has also found time to make himself a nuisance by smearing his name all over John Pierson's Indie Film bible, "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes". He's published the screenplays to all five of his previously released films, written comic books featuring not only his own characters (the multiple-printed Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob), but also legendary mainstays of the superhero world (the award-winning Daredevil and Spider-Man and the Black Cat at Marvel Comics, and the award-winning Green Arrow at DC Comics), and written a monthly column for UK based Arena Magazine. With his View Askew partner, Scott Mosier, he's also executive-produced four low budget, first film efforts (including Bryan Johnson's Lion's Gate release "Vulgar") and one large budget, multiple Academy Award winner ("Good Will Hunting").

Besides Mallrats, however, Smith has survived other humbling "creative" experiences which he inexplicably has failed to suppress-such as his ill-fated "Superman Lives" screenplay for Warner Brothers, and his animated series version of "Clerks" for ABC primetime, which the network unceremoniously aired only twice.

Smith was one of the first filmmakers to venture into cyberspace, establishing the insanely popular View Askewniverse website (www.viewaskew.com) in the mid-nineties and more recently Movie Poop Shoot (www.moviepoopshoot.com), And if the film thing doesn't pan out, he owns a comic book store - Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, in beautiful downtown Red Bank, New Jersey.

As for the hood ornaments he's collected, there's plenty of tin to go around: the Filmmaker's Trophy at Sundance for "Clerks"; the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critic's Week Award at the Cannes Film Festival, also for "Clerks": The Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for "Chasing Amy", and a Humanitas Award for "Good Will Hunting". Smith also received the Defender of Democracy Award from Norman Lear's People for the American Way organization for his production of "Dogma". For his writing in the comics field, Smith has received a Harvey Award, a Wizard Fan Award, an Eagle Award, and had "Green Arrow Quiver" named as one of 2003's Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Service. In the fall of 2002, the town of Paulsboro in NJ named a street after him: Kevin Smith Way.

Along with classmate (as well as future cinematographer) Laszlo Kovacs, he filmed footage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, with a camera concealed in a shopping bag. Soon after, the pair left Hungary and arrived in Los Angeles, where they worked as lab technicians and still photographers and shot educational films.

During the 1960s, credited as William Zsigmond, he paid his dues on various low-budget potboilers, among them "Living between Two Worlds" (1963), "What's Up Front" (1964), "A Hot Summer Game" (1965), and "Hot Rod Action" (1969). He worked with directors James Landis on "The Sadist" (1963), "The Nasty Rabbit," "Deadwood '76" and "Rat Fink" (all 1965), and Al Adamson, on "Psycho a Go-Go!" (1965), "Five Bloody Graves" (1969), and "Horror of the Blood Monsters" (1970).

Zsigmond was the cinematographer of Ib Melchior's "The Time Travelers" (1964), on which his camera operator was Laszlo (then known as "Leslie") Kovacs; the duo shared the photography credit on a documentary, "Mondo Mod" (1967). He went solo on "The Name of the Game is Kill" (1968), "The Monitors" (1969), and "Futz" (1969), where for the first time he was billed as Vilmos Zsigmond.

His first big credit was Peter Fonda's "The Hired Hand" (1971). Since then he has worked on an all-star lineup of films directed by Scorsese, Spielberg, De Palma, Robert Altman, Michael Cimino, and Mark Rydell, among others.

He won the Academy Award, for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), received two nominations, for "The Deer Hunter" (1978) and "The River" (1984); and an Emmy, for "Stalin" (1992).

In 1971, he competed against himself for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award with three of a possible four nominations (for "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Images" and "Deliverance"). He won the prize seven years later for "The Deer Hunter."

Among his credits are "Red Sky at Morning" (1970); "Cinderella Liberty," "The Long Goodbye," "Scarecrow" (all 1973); "The Sugarland Express" (1974); "Obsession" (1976); "The Last Waltz" (1978); "The Rose," "Winter Kills" (both 1979); "Blow Out" (1981); "The Border" (1982); "Table for Five, No Small Affair" (1984); "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987); "Fat Man and Little Boy" (1989); "The Two Jakes" (1990); "Sliver" (1993); "Intersection," "Maverick" and "The Crossing Guard" (all 1994).

He appeared onscreen in the documentary "Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography" (1993), and made his directorial debut with "The Long Shadow (1992)."

Holtzman was the set decorator on Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. He was the assistant set decorator on M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, and the set dresser on Jonathan Demme's Beloved and Philadelphia.

Her film credits include "Welcome To Collinwood," "Summer Catch," "30 Days," "Return To Paradise," "Julian Po," "Cafe Society" and three films with the director Stanley Tucci: "Big Night," "The Impostors" and Joe Gould's "Secret."