Curated playlist
2010 deaths
- Hans L. TrefousseHans Trefousse once argued for eleven hours to make a Nazi commander surrender in Leipzig.
- Mitsuyo SeoAnimator Mitsuyo Seo was jailed as a leftist in 1931, then made a film of Momotarō bombing Pearl Harbor.
- Bruria KaufmanBruria Kaufman spent five years working alongside Albert Einstein in Princeton. She co-wrote two articles with him.
- Alexander McQueenAt Alexander McQueen's Voss show, the audience saw only themselves for over an hour. Then a glass box shattered.
- Kihachirō KawamotoPuppet animator Kihachirō Kawamoto said his puppets only came alive after a year studying in Prague.
- Carl MacekCarl Macek's rewrites of anime angered many fans of the original Japanese shows. Fans still split over his work.
- Angus MaddisonAngus Maddison, a British economist born on the 6th of December 1926, spent his working life putting numbers on the long history of economic growth. His field was quantitative macroeconomic history, which measures how economies grow and…
- Bo HanssonBo Hansson took his girlfriend's copy of The Lord of the Rings in 1969 and went off to write music.
- Irvin KershnerIrvin Kershner once asked George Lucas a direct question: "Of all the younger guys around, all the hot-shots, why me?" Kershner told the story himself, and Lucas had an answer ready: "Well, because you know everything a Hollywood director…
- Vladimir MotylOut of favor with Soviet officials, director Vladimir Motyl was still invited to make White Sun of the Desert.
- Satoshi KonWhen Satoshi Kon died in 2010, the news landed as a shock. He had kept his illness private, and only a short time earlier he had appeared at public events with no visible sign that anything was wrong. Kon was a Japanese film director,…
- John Eric HolmesA neurology professor asked TSR for an easier Dungeons and Dragons. John Eric Holmes wrote its 1977 Basic Set.
- Éric RohmerÉric Rohmer wore a false moustache to the New York premiere of one of his films.
- Frank KermodeIn 1996, city refuse collectors carted off critic Frank Kermode's boxes of valuable books. He sued for £20,000.