Who

A real estate investor-turned-Hollywood-producer-turned-investor, social fixture Barish is partly to blame for the chain restaurant/celebrity tchotchke museum called Planet Hollywood.

Backstory

A University of Miami grad, Barish made millions with a Florida-based commercial real estate investment fund he started in 1966, when he was all of 21. Bored by the business, he moved to Hollywood to get into the film industry, founding Keith Barish Productions in 1979. Over the course of the '80s, Barish produced more than a dozen films, including critically acclaimed 1982 drama Sophie's Choice and the less-adored sexploitation flick Nine ½ Weeks, starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.

In 1991, Barish teamed up with Robert Earl, the founder of the Hard Rock Café, to launch the movie-themed Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. Meteoric success followed, as A-listers like Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger joined as investors, dozens of celebs donated memorabilia, and outposts of the chain opened across the country. Barish's movie producing career slowed down in the '90s as he focused on Planet Hollywood—though he still managed to score a hit with 1993's The Fugitive—but by 1998, the chain was in tatters after expanding too quickly. The same year Barish jumped ship, the company reported a $244 million loss.

Currently

A longtime fixture on the Upper East Side/Hamptons social scene, Barish isn't producing movies much these days—his last film was 1998's U.S. Marshals, the sequel to The Fugitive—but he stays busy. He manages a fund which invests in small start-ups and is a prolific nightlife investor with his son Chris. Over the years, the father-son duo have invested in Jet Lounge, Jet East, Moomba, Light, Light at the Bellagio, and Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg's Marquee. Today, Chris serves as the CEO of Martini Park, a forthcoming chain of "New York-style" restaurant/lounges.

Personal

Barish and his socialite wife Ann have been married for more than three decades. The couple owns a penthouse apartment on Park Avenue (in the same building as Bob Rubin) and a century-old Gin Lane estate in Southampton. They also have a house in Miami Beach on the Biscayne Bay.