Brilliant Careers

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  • Daniel Clowes

    With a new graphic novel out and a movie on the way, the author of "David Boring," "Ghost World" and "Eightball" talks about writing stories, making movies and what it's like being him.
    By Carina Chocano December 5, 2000

  • The Dalai Lama

    China hates him, the West wants to hug him. The spiritual leader of Tibet isn't just the bodhisattva of compassion -- he's one heck of a marketer.
    By Chris Colin November 28, 2000

  • Rev. Billy Graham

    At 82, the Elvis (and Marshall McLuhan) of preachers is still the king of ecumenical evangelism.
    By David Rubien November 21, 2000

  • From Degas to dot-com

    Listen to the second annual celebration of Salon's "Brilliant Careers" series featuring Tracey Ullman, Roger Ebert, Mike Figgis and more!
    Emceed by Ben Stein November 14, 2000

  • Merle Haggard

    From prison and politics to rambling and romance, his journey has been, well, complicated. But austere lyrics and rich country jazz have made him one of music's masters.
    By Alex Halberstadt November 14, 2000

  • Dolly Parton

    The artist with one of the greatest country voices of all time says that throughout her life she's been driven by three passions: God, music and sex.
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 31, 2000

  • Ted Williams

    Almost 60 years ago, the greatest hitter who ever lived hit over .400 and no one has done it since.
    By Mark Miller October 24, 2000

  • Tommy Lasorda

    After 50 years of baseball, the legendary manager swears he bleeds Dodger blue.
    By Mark Miller October 17, 2000

  • Christopher Walken

    No one plays the kook, the psycho, the fallen angel, the bloodthirsty ghoul better than the actor who claims he's just a regular Joe.
    By Stephen Lemons October 10, 2000

  • Michael Caine

    Over four decades -- from "Alfie" to "The Cider House Rules" -- he has played warm, cold and everything in between, and never feared losing the audience's sympathy.
    By Charles Taylor October 3, 2000

  • Helen Gurley Brown

    In a tempestuous era, her Cosmopolitan magazine grappled with how women should define themselves, and reconcile liberation with their interest in men.
    By Melissa Hantman September 26, 2000

  • Van Morrison

    The Irish singer-songwriter has identified himself with poets from Blake to Yeats, and like those "poetic champions," he has searched for the right words, the right feeling, as if for the Holy Grail.
    By Sean Elder September 19, 2000

  • Jerry Wexler

    The great Atlantic Records producer gave us rhythm and blues -- as well as just about every R&B legend -- and retooled the very foundations of music producing.
    By Alex Halberstadt September 5, 2000

  • Roger Angell

    Long before he started writing about baseball for the New Yorker he was a fan of the game, and he has never been afraid to show it.
    By Steve Kettmann August 29, 2000

  • Ray Davies

    The man whose kinkiness gave the Kinks their greatness has written songs that some of us will carry around, like a talisman, forever.
    By Stephanie Zacharek August 22, 2000

  • Robert Altman

    Hollywood's ultimate outsider is at long last the Big Daddy of American cinema.
    By Stephen Lemons August 15, 2000

  • John Waters

    It's been a long, nauseating haul, but the director of "Pink Flamingos" and the new "Cecil B. DeMented" has made it as an American icon.
    By Daniel Reitz August 8, 2000

  • Paul Verhoeven

    By Andrew O'Hehir
    By August 4, 2000

  • Paul Verhoeven

    Is the director of "Total Recall" and "Hollow Man" a pornographer, a homophobe and a misogynist -- or a misunderstood genius who's been defeated by his own contrary nature?
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 1, 2000

  • Sir George Martin

    He was the only "fifth Beatle" who really deserved the title -- without him the '60s' greatest group might never have happened.
    By Frank Houston July 25, 2000

  • Evan S. Connell

    By flipping the known world on its head, the relentlessly contrarian author of "Son of the Morning Star" and "Deus Lo Volt!" has become that rarest of writers: Dangerous.
    By Greg Bottoms July 18, 2000

  • John McEnroe

    His combination of talent and temperament worked hand in hand, exploding on the court and turning tennis into performance art.
    By Larry Platt July 11, 2000

  • Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    Her books on dogs have made her a bestselling author, but her fascinating life as a writer began over 40 years ago in the Kalahari Desert.
    By Susan McCarthy June 27, 2000

  • Nina Simone

    Now on a rare tour of the U.S., she's been the "High Priestess of Soul" for decades, making music that's an eloquent blend of joy, sorrow and anger.
    By Jennifer Gilmore June 20, 2000

  • Roger Corman

    The King of B movies became an industry giant by keeping budgets lean, and his films rich with breasts, bikers and blood.
    By Greg Villepique June 13, 2000
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