[photographs of each individual accompany article] Nancy Evans ‘72 As co-founder and editor-in-chief of iVilliage.com, former president and publisher of Doubleday, two-time author, television co-host, and contributing-editor to both Redbook and Glamour magazines, Nancy Evans has worn many hats in the 30-odd years since she left Skidmore during the college’s transition to coeducation. Evans made headlines in 2000 when iVilliage’s IPO raised $87.6 million, making her a millionaire several times over. The company is the largest web site for women in the country, with 10.8 million unique visitors each month and 5.7 million women members. Evans began her career as an editor at Harper’s Weekly. In 1985, she became vice-president and editor-in-chief of the Book-of-the-Month CluB, starting the Children’s Book-of-the-Month club during her time there. In 1987, she left her position in favor of a job at Doubleday, serving as the organization’s president and publisher, a post she kept until 1991. While at Doubleday, she won the Matrix Award for Book Publishing from Women in Communications. Later, Evans co-hosted “First Edition,” a nationally televised book and author show, for three years on PBS. In addition to co-writing two books - a guide for new writers called “How to Get Happily Published” and a book for children called “Goodbye, House” - Evans has also written for such publications as The New York Times Book Review, The Harvard Business Review, Ms. Magazine, and Family Circle. Rob Hoffman ‘97 Rob Hoffman, a business major who went into studio recording, assisted in mixing Michael Jackson’s “History” album, physically cutting and splicing Jackson’s analogue two-track master tape with a razor blade to rearrange tracks, a skill he learned in Skidmore’s own recording studio. “I’m really glad I learned how to cut and splice tapes using Skidmore’s Otari 2 track machine,” he said on Skidmore’s web site. “This was a critical skill in my work with Michael Jackson.” Had Hoffman botched the splice, the entire mix would have had to be redone, at serious expense and embarrassment. After graduating from Skidmore, Rob Hoffman earned a degree in Recording Arts from Full Sail Real World Education in Florida, a leading trade school specializing in the entertainment arts. In addition to his work with Michael Jackson, Hoffman has worked with many of the biggest stars in the music industry, including Quincy Jones, Joe Cocker, Hole, Barry White, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, Jo Dee Messina, Sean ‘P-Diddy’ Combs, and Christina Aguilera. Hoffman has worked especially closely with Aguilera, for whom he co-wrote and produced the demo that got her signed to RCA Records. Hoffman also wrote and produced the song “Obvious” for Aguilera’s multi-platinum self-tided album, and “Soar” for Aguilera’s latest album, “Stripped,” along with songwriting partner Heather Holley. Hoffman and Holley formed Illicit Music, writing and producing for some of the biggest names in pop music and currently working with some seven artists. Eddie Cahill Eddie Cahill’s face is 30 feet tall, at least on the massive billboards the WB network put up to promote Cahill’s dramedy “Glory Days,” which aired Wednesdays at 9 p.m. earlier this year. Cahill, best known as Rachael’s eye-catching assistant “Tag” on Friends, attended Skidmore for the ‘96-’97 academic year before leaving to study acting at NYU. He proceeded to guest star on “Felicity,” where he played a crack-dealer, “Sex and the City,” where he played Carrie’s bisexual hook-up, “Charmed,” and, of course, “Friends.” On “Glory Days,” Cahill plays main character Mike Dolan, an author who returns to his hometown after publishing a best-selling, semi-autobiographical novel. Upon returning, he is forced to deal with the people he fictionalized in his murder-mystery novel. Professor of Theater Larry Opitz, who directed Cahill in his adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial” in 1997, remembered Cahill as a good comic actor, wacky, and talented. “I really enjoyed him as a student and an actor,” he said. Opitz is not the only one who noticed Cahill; he was named one of E! Online’s “Sizzlin’ Sixteen” for 2001 and one of the “What’s Next” people for 2002 by Teen People Magazine. Georgette Blau ‘96 Georgette Blau ‘96 remembers fondly her days at Skidmore, “how each dorm was just a hop, skip, and a jump away,” and the close friendships she formed in Saratoga Springs. Three years after graduation, in June 1999, Blau founded On Location Tours, she says, “just as a side thing to my regular 9-5 job.” The original ‘Manhattan TV Tour’ continues to bus tourists to some 15 famous locations around Manhattan, including the Cosby residence, the real “NYPD Blue” precinct, and Paul and Jamie’s apartment building from “Mad About You.” Customers can even order soup from the real Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. In October 2000, Blau left her job and devoted all her time to On Location’s efforts, adding two new tours in 2001, a Sopranos tour in March, and a Sex and the City tour in October, the latter allowing tourists to “drink where they drink, shop where they shop, and gossip where they gossip.” The Sopranos tour takes customers to 35 sites in New Jersey in three hours, including “interior locations where shooting - no pun intended - occurred.” The new tours have helped the business grow from one employee and a 15-passenger van to seven part-time tour guides and 57 passenger busses. Blau plans to start two new tours in 2003 and expand to other cities in the long term. On Location Tours are online at http://www.sce-neontv.com. Nelle Nugent ‘60 Big-time Broadway, television, and film producer Nelle Nugent got her start in the early 70s working on Broadway, first as a production stage manager and then as a general manager, before becoming associate managing director at Nederlander Productions, a company she saw grow and prosper during her tenure. Nugent booked hundreds of acts for Nederlander Productions, which owns theaters all over the United States and Great Britain, from ballet companies, to Broadway productions, to popular entertainers like B.B. King, David Bowie, Elton John, and George Carlin. Leaving Nederlander with Elizabeth McCann in 1976, she co-founded McCann & Nugent Productions. “Dracula,” the first play they produced, ran seven seasons and won a Tony award for Best Revival. The pair went on to produce many Tony- and Obie award-winning plays. In 1985, Nugent began working with the Walt Disney Company in film and television and founded Foxboro Productions, Inc. in 1986. The company produced several made for television movies and independent films, including “Getting In,” an independent film starring Dave Chappelle, Calista Flockhart, and Matthew Perry. During this time, Nugent also shot a pilot episode of a show called “Morning Maggie,” which featured Matthew Perry with co-star Hank Azaria. Nugent returned to Skidmore for a week in September, speaking to a number of classes and screening her latest film “After the Storm,” an adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story starring Benjamin Bratt and Armand Assante.