Volume 11

Born in Glendale, Calif., Epper’s father was a movie stunt performer. Her mother was a stunt performer. Her brothers and sisters were stunt performers (though one sister dropped out of the biz). So it’s perhaps not a big surprise that she followed her family into the business, and in a big way. She doubled for … Read more

Rutan is best known for setting perhaps the last great achievement in aeronautics.

Starting with a passion when he was 10, Cuscuna created a career like no other.

Probably the longest-serving audio engineer in the history of the film industry: he worked on around 600 films and TV shows!

A life in three acts, with enough luck and adventure to be a major Hollywood movie.

Humans aren’t as good at decisions than they think, and Kahneman figured out why.

His family fled World War II as he was turning 3, but he was still left with a profound impact.

Harris didn’t want to be “the first,” he just wanted to fly, and fly, and fly. And he did.

Hiatt was one of the giants on whose shoulders others later stood.

Pioneering work on finding ways to repair spinal cords to help paralyzed people.