2007 Survey Respondents: Doug Aitken, Florence Almozini, Kurt Andersen, Brooke Anderson, Carl Andress, Nicole Aragi, Karole Armitage, Jeff Ayers, Jon Robin Baitz, Fred Bass, Marty Bell, Jed Bernstein, Amy Bissell, Holly Block, Mark Blum, Steve Bodow, Andy Borowitz, Maureen Bray, Frank Bruni, Matthew Buchholz, Laura Bell Bundy, Sara Caples, David Carr, Graydon Carter, Michael Cerveris, Glenn Close, Malaak Compton-Rock, Karen Cooper, Lauren Cornell, Christopher Cox, Stephen Crone, Alan Cumming, Blythe Danner, Joshua David, Jacqueline Z. Davis, Dana Delany, Jonathan Demme, Donny Deutsch, Anna Deavere Smith, Adam Duritz, Mike Egan, Sam Elliot, Tovah Feldshuh, Renée Fleming, Carter Foster, Christina Foxley, Jonathan Franzen, John Freeman, Jose Freire, J. Michael Friedman, Peter Gelb, Jeanne Gerrity, Massimiliano Gioni, Bruce Goldstein, David Marshall Grant, Judd Greenstein, Michael Greif, Mamie Gummer, Tim Gunn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Hammond, Mariska Hargitay, Bruce Haring, Meredith Harper, Patrick Harrison, Anne Hathaway, Larry Henry, Emile Hirsch, Jim Holt, Karen Brooks Hopkins, Archana Janardhanan, Tamara Jenkins, Edgar Jerins, Nadine Johnson, Radhika Jones, Sarah Jones, Gabriel Kahane, Lauren Kelly, Anthony King, Geoffrey Kloske, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Kuhn, Sara Lasser, Leigh Lezark, Ruby Lerner, Donna Lieberman, Tod Lippy, Bradford Louryk, Victoria Lynford, Mike Maggiore, Aasif Mandvi, Stephanie March, Ryan McGinley, Charles McGrath, Sarah McNally, Christopher Meloni, Paul Menard, Marilyn Minter, John Cameron Mitchell, Shamim Momin, Meredith Monk, Emily Mortimer, Nico Muhly, Vik Muniz, Geoffrey Nauffts, Gordon Nicol, B.J. Novak, Gregg Pasquarelli, Richard Peña, Piper Perabo, Lisa Phillips, Francine Prose, Pusha T, Phylicia Rashad, Lynn Redgrave, Frank Rich, Nathaniel Rich, Dakota Blue Richards, Barbara Roan, Mo Rocca, Jane Rosenthal, Alex Ross, Meredith Rothstein, Keri Russell, Andy Samberg, John Schaefer, Collier Schorr, David Schwartz, Jason Sellards, Howard Sherman, Gary Shteyngart, Janet Silver, Ira Silverberg, Russell Simmons, Andrew Solomon, Aaron Spangler, Michael Stipe, Swizz Beatz, Jessica Szohr, Johnny Temple, Rob Thomas, Safi A. Thomas, Lyn Trotman, Christine Vachon, Gianni Valenti, Ron Warren, Juliane Wanckel, Veronica Webb, Chris Weitz, Edmund White, Eric Winick, Carol Woods, Jeffrey Wright, Robert Wuhl, Janet Zarish, Julián Zugazagoitia.

Photographs: Jim Spellman/WireImage (Cotillard, Kline, Redgrave); Patrick McMullan (Bardem, Blanchett, Hawke); Craig Blankhorn/courtesy of HBO (Gandolfini); Gene Pittman/The Walker Art Center/Courtesy of the Whitney (detail of Walker’s “Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War As It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart”); Lorenz Kienzle/courtesy of MOMA (Serra’s “Intersection II,” 1992-93); Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (detail of Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s); Steve Granitz Archive/WireImage (Langella); Joan Marcus (Cox); Monique Carboni (Michele), Patrick McMullan (Anderson, Brooks, Carell, Danes, Gosling, Prince, Stevens, Swinton, Wheeldon); Iwan Baan (40 Bond); Michel Denancè/courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop (New York Times building); Richard B. Levine/Newscom (IAC building); Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (Clooney); David Lee/Courtesy of Universal Pictures (Washington); Jasin Boland/Courtesy of Universal Pictures (Damon); Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment (Maguire); Richard Young/Rex USA (Seymour Hoffman); Kent Eanes/Courtesy of NBC (30 Rock); Courtesy of AMC (Mad Men); Courtesy of Showtime (Weeds)