http://dir.salon.com/topics/brilliant_careers/?source=rss&aim=brilliant_careers en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST By Stephanie Zacharek Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST 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. By Stephanie Zacharek Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/12/julie_christie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/12/julie_christie/index.html?source=rss The most honest and revealing of actresses, she speaks a language of her own that we instantly understand.