Judith Crist (born May 22, 1922) is an American film critic. She appeared regularly on the Today show from 1964-1973 and has appeared in one film, Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. She is the author of The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl; Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies and Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking.

Crist attended Morris High School and received a B.A. from Hunter College and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After graduating from Columbia in 1945 she was employed by The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter, film critic and arts editor for 22 years, as well as being employed as TV Guide's resident film critic. After the Tribune went under, she became the founding film critic at New York magazine. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia's School of Journalism since 1958. She is the mother of Steven Crist, thoroughbred handicapper and publisher of the Daily Racing Form.

Like Dwight Macdonald, Ms. Crist reviewed films for the Today show in the 1960's. She conducted the Judith Crist Film Weekends at Tarrytown House, NY, from 1971 to 2006. She was a longtime member of the Executive Committee of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Association and she served three terms as President of the Alumni Association in the 1960s.

The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. The book contains numerous historical anachronisms, which is why many scholars now accept it as non-historical; it has been considered a parable or perhaps the first historical novel.

The name Judith (Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Modern Yehudit Tiberian Yəhûḏîṯ ; "Praised" or "Jewess") is the feminine form of Judah.

The Book of Judith has a tragic setting that appealed to Jewish patriots and it warned of the urgency of adhering to Mosaic law, generally speaking, but what accounted for its enduring appeal was the drama of its narrative. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the Israelites. Gaining his trust, she is allowed access to his tent one night as he lies in a drunken stupor. She decapitates him, then takes his head back to her fearful countrymen. The Assyrians, having lost their leader, disperse, and Israel is saved. Though she is courted by many, she remains unmarried for the rest of her life.

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004. Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, and in 2010, a prominent media observer dubbed him "the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century."

Williams was reared in a middle-class Irish Catholic home. His father, Gordon L. Williams, was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. During childhood, his family moved from his birthplace, Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Elmira, New York. He lived in Elmira for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.

He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.

Lynn Cullen (born 1948 as Ida Lynn Miller) is an American liberal radio talk show host in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most recently, she was briefly on radio station WAMO-AM 860 weekdays from 5-7 p.m. EST. As of May 15, 2009, WAMO and several sister stations are in the process of being sold, and Cullen and all other employees were abruptly laid off. On July 7, 2009, it was announced that she will broadcast a one-hour Internet radio show on the Pittsburgh City Paper's website starting on August 18, 2009

From 1999 until a format change on August 2008, Cullen was a radio talk show host on radio station WPTT-AM 1360.

Cullen's reporting for WTAE-TV from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991 Emmy award,^{[citation needed]} four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press Club,^{[citation needed]} and three Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster Awards for feature reporting.^{[citation needed]} She also received the Printer's Devil Award from Women in Communications for her ability to see humor in the world and to puncture the pompous among us.^{[citation needed]} In addition, the YWCA honored her for her rigorous work against racism and bigotry.^{[citation needed]} Her best TV work had a literate sense of irreverence that was unlike anything else in the Pittsburgh market at that time.^{[citation needed]}