Curated playlist
Dartmouth College alumni
- Meryl StreepDino De Laurentiis insulted Meryl Streep in Italian, not knowing she spoke it. She answered him in Italian too.
- Dr. SeussAn education publisher dared Dr. Seuss to write a book children can't put down. The result was The Cat in the Hat.
- Leon BlackLeon Black paid $119.9 million in May 2012 for a pastel by Edvard Munch, one of the four versions of The Scream. At that moment, no work of art had ever sold for a higher price. The buyer was an American private equity investor, born on…
- Joseph CampbellGeorge Lucas said Joseph Campbell's book helped shape Star Wars. They met only in 1984.
- David HarbourDavid Harbour made his television debut in 1999 on Law & Order, playing a waiter. He was born on the 10th of April 1975, and he is an American actor. A waiter is about as small as a screen part gets. So how does an actor go from that…
- William W. FitzhughWilliam W. Fitzhugh founded the Arctic Studies Center in 1988. It focuses only on northern cultures.
- Fred RogersFred Rogers weighed 143 pounds for most of his adult life, and he treated the number as a private message. In a 1998 Esquire profile, he told the writer Tom Junod, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four…
- David BenioffDavid Benioff was a club bouncer and a high school wrestling coach before Game of Thrones. He later co-ran the show.
- Mike MearlsMike Mearls inherited the lead designer job at Dungeons and Dragons when Rob Heinsoo was laid off in 2009.
- Robert ReichRobert Reich stands 4 feet 11 inches tall, and he has spent his working life arguing with people who hold far more power than he does. Born on the 24th of June 1946, he became an American lawyer, professor, author and political…