For instance, in the music industry, the top-selling pop singers have a strong potential to become celebrities, but the behind-the-scenes professionals tend to remain little known to the general public ( e. g. dancers, disc jockeys, record producers, and composers ); though in recent years, Club DJs such as David Guetta, Skrillex and Deadmau5 or composer David Foster have achieved worldwide fame for their respective work in the music industry.

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

* 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer ( d. 2008 )

* In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

American novelist David Foster Wallace described Steps as a " collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever ".

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

* 1949 – David Foster, Canadian musician and composer

Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the new song.

** David Foster Wallace, American writer ( d. 2008 )

* Writer David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

The paradox is also mentioned several times in David Foster Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System as well as The Information, by James Gleick.

** The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

Newton-John collaborated with producer David Foster to record " Hope Is Always Here " for the November 2009 television special, Kaleidoscope.

Its first single was a re-recording of " I Honestly Love You " produced by David Foster and featuring Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds on background vocals that charted Pop ( No. 67 ) and AC ( No. 18 ).

* New York State Theater ( renamed David H. Koch Theater ) at Lincoln Center, New York City, New York ( with Richard Foster ; 1964 )

Altman was introduced to the story by David Foster, one of the film's producers.

Others from Hope include former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty ; attorney Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( 1945 – 1993 ); former Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor David L. Armstrong ; Gary Dee ; former Arkansas Secretary of State Kelly Bryant, PGA golfer Ken Duke, actress / vocalist Ketty Lester, and actress Melinda Dillon.

In addition, David Foster Wallace references the Jolt Cola ad campaign in the short story " Mister Squishy ," originally published in McSweeney's and collected in Oblivion: Stories.

* Enfield Tennis Academy, a fictional Boston-area sports academy in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest

The new design was styled under the direction of Project Design Chief Joe Oros and his team of L. David Ash, Gale Halderman, and John Foster — in Ford's Lincoln – Mercury Division design studios, which produced the winning design in an intramural design contest instigated by Iacocca.

* 1998 David Foster

He is joined by producer David Heyman, who Cuarón worked with on Harry Potter.

* 1964 – David Kohan, American television producer and writer

* 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer

* 1961 – David Morales, American DJ and producer

* 1959 – David Frankel, American director, screenwriter and producer

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Between 1988 and 1989, many aspects of the show were modernised by new producer, David Liddiment.

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

David Lawrence Angell ( April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American producer of sitcoms.

Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier.

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

* 1943 – David Geffen, American record producer

Originally titled The Girls Upstairs, the musical was originally to be produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward in late 1967, but the plans ultimately fell through, and Stuart Ostrow became the producer, with Joseph Hardy to direct.

* 1968 – David Gray, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

* 1928 – David L. Wolper, American television producer ( d. 2010 )

* 1967 – David Chacón Perez, Venezuelan director and producer

* 1916 – David Brown, American film producer ( d. 2010 )

Whale lived in Hollywood for the rest of his life, most of that time with his longtime companion, producer David Lewis.

As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes ( directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

David Belasco, the producer of the play, insisted that Gladys Smith assume the stage name Mary Pickford.

* 1959 – David Ball, English musician and producer ( Soft Cell and The Grid )

* 1955 – David Kirschner, American illustrator, producer, and author