Sharon Oreck

Between 1984 and 2000, Oreck directed hundreds of music videos, working with some of the industry's biggest stars (and, in some cases, most difficult personalities). Now she's recalling her MTV adventures in her funny new pop-culture memoir, Video Slut: How I Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad, and Got a Waterfall to Flow Backwards.