New York TV newswoman Kristine Johnson

Kristine Johnson is an anchorwoman at WCBS-TV in New York, the CBS network's home station on the East Coast.

The daughter of a Philippine mother and an American father, Kristine Johnson had previously been an anchor on NBC's "Early Today" and also an anchor on MSNBC's "First Look," but she chose a career on "local" broadcast news in New York - that local market being comprised of sixteen million viewers or so. She's been co-anchor of the noon and 5 PM newscasts since 2006 and the 11 PM newscast since 2007.

MSNBC newswoman Tamron Hall

Tamron Hall is one of the best reasons to watch MSNBC.

The Texas-born Hall is a daytime anchor on that cable news channel, and she currently co-anchors "The Big Picture" in the 3 PM Eastern hour with David Shuster. Their witty, playful banter is fun to listen to.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Tamron Hall was a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas, and she was a reporter and morning anchor at WFLD-TV in Chicago for ten years (1997 to 2007).

Actress Isla Fisher

Isla Fisher is a young and up-and-coming actress from Australia, born to Scottish parents and currently engaged to the outrageous comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

She first gained fame in Australia as Shannon Reed on the television serial "Home and Away" in the nineties She has appeared in many films in the past decade, including 2004's I ♥ Huckabees and 2005's Wedding Crashers.

Not all of her films have been favorably received. In 2009 she starred in the comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic as Rebecca Bloomwood, a young woman who works as a financial journalist to support her addiction to shopping. It was released just as the world was going through a recession that resulted from overspending and overconsumption, and suddenly being broke was no laughing matter.

Actress/singer Deanna Durbin

Last week, I paid tribute to Lauren Bacall, and this week I'm tipping my hat to another living legend of the 1940s.

Deanna Durbin starred in numerous Hollywood muscials of the forties, and she was known for her versatile voice as well as her glamourous looks. Her films included Can't Help Singing, her only Technicolor film, but she also did more serious fare like the film noir Chrismtas Holiday and the mystery movie Lady On a Train. Dissatisfied with the Hollywood starmaking machinery, the Canadian-born Durbin retired from movies in 1948 and moved to a farm in France. She's avoided the limelight ever since.