http://dir.salon.com/topics/brilliant_careers/?source=rss&aim=brilliant_careers en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT By Cary Tennis Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/09/restless_graduate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/09/restless_graduate/index.html?source=rss I'm not sure I want to spend the next 10 years doing bong hits and playing video games. Nor do I want to join a book discussion group. By Stephanie Zacharek Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2002/01/22/saint_laurent/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2002/01/22/saint_laurent/index.html?source=rss Yves Saint Laurent's love for women was never so loudly professed as in the lines of his garments. By Lynda Cardwell Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/13/bragg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/13/bragg/index.html?source=rss He's gone from Calhoun County, Ala., to Islamabad and back, but the author of "Ava's Man" never leaves his family far behind. By Jeff Galipeaux Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/06/moreau/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/06/moreau/index.html?source=rss When you visit the woman Orson Welles called "the greatest actress in the world," don't try to light her cigarette -- you might get burned. By Loren Fox Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/27/whitman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/27/whitman/index.html?source=rss The CEO of eBay presides over a company worth more than four times as much as Kmart. Maybe there's something to this e-commerce thing after all. By Andrew Nelson Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/20/mankiller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/20/mankiller/index.html?source=rss The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't even ask where she got her name. By Amy Reiter Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/13/tom_stoppard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/13/tom_stoppard/index.html?source=rss For the last four decades, the playwright has filled the theater world with clever wordplay, big ideas and palpable passion. By Brian Libby Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/06/lynch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/06/lynch/index.html?source=rss The pleasant, bizarre filmmaker who gave us the Lynchian world insists that now, more than ever, we must face the darkness. By Amy Standen Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/30/roger_payne/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/30/roger_payne/index.html?source=rss After fighting to protect whales for 30 years, the biologist who discovered that humpbacks sing still feels nothing but awe for the huge "impossible animals." By Jeffrey MacIntyre Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/23/delillo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/23/delillo/index.html?source=rss America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives. By Steve Kettmann Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/16/howe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/16/howe/index.html?source=rss The laid-back manager of the hard-charging Oakland A's does it his way, laconically and happily. And that drives his critics crazy. By Allen St. John Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/09/henderson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/09/henderson/index.html?source=rss Say what you will about his attitude, he walks the walk. And in the last few days he's walked right into the record books -- twice. By Brian Libby Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/02/bono/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/10/02/bono/index.html?source=rss Over two decades, U2's leader has evolved from heart-on-his-sleeve idealist to irony-drenched rock 'n' roll Liberace to hopeful pragmatist. By Mike Thomas Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/25/harvey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/25/harvey/index.html?source=rss He's been a radio icon since Limbaugh and Stern were in grade school. More than that, he is the finest huckster ever to roam the airwaves. By Elizabeth Kuball Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/18/anne_bancroft/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/18/anne_bancroft/index.html?source=rss Thirty-four years after creating the indelible Mrs. Robinson, she's an actress who still shines in every role. By Paul A. Toth Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/11/mamet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/11/mamet/index.html?source=rss He mows down b.s. with his satire, yet still sells popcorn. By Chris Colin Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/04/richman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/09/04/richman/index.html?source=rss The rough and charming godfather of punk sings quietly now and makes us nostalgic for a time that never existed. By Stephanie Zacharek Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/28/dion/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/28/dion/index.html?source=rss His voice belongs not solely to the chart-making pop star but also to another, secret singer, who sang in the margins when practically no one was listening. By Steve Burgess Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/21/janet_jackson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/21/janet_jackson/index.html?source=rss Her best singles represent the kind of quality craftsmanship that made us listen to the radio in the first place. By David Davis Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/08/marvin_miller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/08/08/marvin_miller/index.html?source=rss As the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he challenged the assumptions that players are chattel and that labor unions have no place within sports. By Stephen Lemons Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/31/macgowan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/31/macgowan/index.html?source=rss The life-embracing, death-defying founder of the Pogues is a king hell drinker, a writer and one of the last of a vanishing breed. By Christopher Kemp Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/24/robert_ballard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/24/robert_ballard/index.html?source=rss The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic says he's driven by "a childish desire to poke around." By Maura Kelly Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/17/john_hughes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/17/john_hughes/index.html?source=rss The films he created in the decade of greed made adolescent angst funny and bearable without romanticizing it. By Chris Robinson Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/03/parn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/07/03/parn/index.html?source=rss The Lenny Bruce of animation comes from Estonia, but his influence is felt all the way to "Rugrats" and "Duckman." By Mary Elizabeth Williams Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/19/brooks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/19/brooks/index.html?source=rss The comedy impresario currently steamrolling Broadway owes "Blazing Saddles," fart humor and his dancing Hitler to a red rubber ball.