Possible Clues:

• 1992 Denzel Washington title role
• Forbes publisher Forbes
• "Outliers" author Gladwell
• __ X
• First name of a civil rights activist who would turn 85 today, and whose adopted last name is a hint to this puzzle's theme
• Scottish king becomes Hitler for Huddersfield
• TV kid "in the middle"
• Middle kid, in a sitcom
• - Bradbury, Eng. writer
• 2003 Canadian Idol winner