PROGRAM GUESTS

ROBERT DE NIRO
Robert De Niro's distinguished body of work includes performances in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Ulu Grosbard's True Confessions and Falling in Love, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, Scorsese's King of Comedy, New York, New York, Goodfellas and Cape Fear (his seventh Scorsese film), Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Roland Joffe's The Mission, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Alan Parker's Angel Heart, Martin Brest's Midnight Run, David Jones' Jacknife, Martin Ritt's Stanley and Iris, Neil Jordan's We're No Angels, and Irwin Winkler's Guilty By Suspicion. De Niro takes pride in the development of his production company, Tribeca, and the Tribeca Film Center, which he founded with Jane Rosenthal in 1988. Through Tribeca, he develops projects on which he serves in a combination of capacities, including producer, director and actor.

Tribeca's A Bronx Tale, marked De Niro's directorial debut. The film, in which De Niro also stars, is based on the highly successful one-man show by New York playwright Chazz Palminteri. Tribeca features include Thunderheart, Cape Fear, Mistress, Night and the City and The Night We Never Met.

In 1992 Tribeca launched Tribeca TV and sold its first series, the critically acclaimed Tribeca, to the Fox Network. De Niro served as one of the series executive producers. Tribeca is headquartered at De Niro's Tribeca Film Center, in the TriBeCa district of New York. The Film Center is a state-of-the-art office building designed for the film and television industry. The eight-story facility features office space, a screening room, banquet hall and restaurant, in addition to a full range of services for entertainment professionals.

JON HUNTSMAN
By the time he was in high school, Jon Huntsman had already developed into a star athlete and student. One day his high school principal told him that the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania was recruiting. Wharton? Huntsman had never heard of it, but he was asked by his principal to show up for the interview. The recruiter turned out to be Wharton alumnus Harold Zellerbach of Crown Zellerbach. Zellerbach offered him a partial scholarship to Wharton. Off to Philadelphia went Huntsman, then 18. He wrote his thesis in college on the Paper and Pulp Industry, fully expecting to repay the generosity of the Zellerbachs by going to work for them on graduation.

When he went to see his mentor's son William Zellerbach, he recalls that Zellerbach told him, "You can come to work for us, but you are the most natural entrepreneur the family has ever met. Get a job where you can learn to operate a business from the ground up. Go make your mistakes at someone else's expense, then go out on your own." "At the time, I felt heartbroken that they didn't want me," says Huntsman. "But it was the best advice I've ever gotten."

Though he had offers from IBM and Wall Street for twice the wage, Huntsman decided to go into the egg business, working for his wife's uncles. "I drove around in a pickup truck. It's a dirty business, and dealing with farmers is about as tough as it gets. But I learned all aspects of running a company."

He was busy and doing well, but still it bothered him when he got condescending notes from his Wharton classmates. "What's that you're in? Fish or eggs?" they ribbed him. The truth is, before long he was in packaging. In 1965 the egg company went into a joint venture to make the innovative polystyrene egg container. Huntsman was picked to run the venture. . .

PROGRAM GUESTS (cont'd)

JUDITH JAMISON
Judith Jamison is the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the best-known and most popular modern dance company in the United States. Miss Jamison grew up in New York City, the daughter of a sheet metal worker and teacher. As a young girl, Judith was sent to classical dance classes and later attended the Philadelphia Dance Academy where she was recruited by Agnes de Mille for the American Ballet Theatre. In 1964, Miss Jamison was invited by Alvin Ailey to join his company as principal dancer and, for the next 15 years, thrilled and captivated audiences around the world as "modern dance's first box-office star." In 1988, Miss Jamison starred in the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies. She returned to the Ailey troupe and has carried on the legacy of its founder, rejuvenating the company and extending the heritage of black expression. This majestic dancer, choreographer and teacher is acclaimed as one of the most influential forces in American culture.

QUINCY JONES
Quincy Jones' first gold album, Body Heat , replaced large orchestral arrangements with a funky, driving rhythm section and featured synthesizers and guitars. Shortly after its release, Quincy had a bout with two neural aneurysms that almost took his life. After coming through two delicate operations in which the odds for survival were heavily against him, he went straight back to work with a renewed sense of commitment . . . Quincy didn't devote the 1970's entirely to records. For Ray Charles' 25th show business anniversary in 1971, he conceived and composed "A Black Requiem," which Charles performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra along with eighty voices and a jazz ensemble. He also produced the award-winning CBS tribute, Duke Ellington, We Love You Madly! In 1977 he scored the landmark TV mini-series Roots, won an Emmy for same, and turned it into a best-selling album. Quincy's Oscar nominated movie adaptation of the score of the Broadway musical The Wiz (1978) marked the first time he worked with Michael Jackson.

On the set of The Wiz, Quincy and Michael became mutual admirers, so it was only natural that they go into the studio together to make Michael's first solo album. The result was the Quincy-produced Off The Wall, (which sold eight million albums), making Jackson an international superstar and Quincy the most sought-after record producer in Hollywood.

These successes prompted Warner Bros. to offer Quincy his own label, Qwest Records. But before establishing Qwest, Quincy had one more album under his contract with A&M. The Dude, which featured the singers Patti Austin and James Ingram, received twelve Grammy nominations and went on to win five Grammy Awards including one for Producer of the Year, in 1981. The same year, the Jones-produced, Broadway show recording, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, also won two Grammys, for the Qwest label.

Also in '81, Qwest released Patti Austin's Every Home Should Have One album, from which Patti Austin-James Ingram duet, "Baby Come To Me" skyrocketed to number one and gold status. The Quincy produced gold album, Donna Summer, introduced the former disco queen into the realm of jazz. In collaboration with Steven Spielberg, Quincy also produced the successful children's album, The E.T. Storybook, with narration and performance by Michael Jackson.

In 1982, Quincy and Michael Jackson re-teamed to make Thriller, the long-awaited follow-up to Off The Wall. It became the highest selling album of the '80s, spawning an unprecedented six Top 10 singles: "The Girl Is Mine," "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Human Nature," and "P.Y.T." Reflecting on the changes in pop music over the years, Quincy says, "If there are any common denominators, they are spirit and musicality. I've heard the rhythm section change many times. But looking at it more broadly, you find the same things coming back in different forms. Life is about patterns. With Basie, you had a four-to-the-floor beat, and then it came round again with disco. Sooner or later it all comes back then I go for the music that gives me goosebumps."

Quincy Jones has reached the essence of a lot of different artists, and in doing so he has reached the essence of music itself... the ability to touch people's feelings and emotions.

MICHAEL R. MILKEN
is a legend in the world of finance. While scarcely in his 30s, Milken revolutionized the securities industry, with his use of high-yield, high-risk securities. Over the last generation Mr. Milken was instrumental in financing hundreds of companies and creating millions of jobs around the world in industries ranging from cable and telecommunications to home-building and health care. As a co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, he has helped create such innovative programs as Mike's Math Club, the Festival for Youth, and the Milken Scholars Program. He is also chairman and founder of CaP CURE -- now the world's second largest source of funding for prostate cancer research. As co-founder and chairman of the Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation, Mr. Milken formulated the Institute's mission to advance studies of the global economy and the determinants of economic growth.

STEPHEN A. WYNN
Stephen Wynn is Chairman and Chief Executive of Mirage Resorts Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who worked weekends at his father's bingo business on the Maryland shore. Steve became one of the original investors in the Frontier Hotel, which was sold to the legendary Howard Hughes. At the age of 31, he gained control of the Golden Nugget and with "boldness and innovation" transformed the property into Las Vegas' most luxurious hotel and casino. Steve then built one of the most spectacular and successful resorts in the world, The Mirage, a $600 million, 67-acre tropical wonderland. This brilliant entrepreneur recently completed construction of Treasure Island, the Adventure Resort, which features a swashbuckling pirate theme that stimulates the imagination of its guests.