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Composer Alexandre Desplat; IMDB Founder, Col Needham

Composer Alexandre Desplat on doing the lonely job that he loves. Plus, the founder of IMDB.

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By Kim Masters • Dec 17, 2012 • 30m Listen

Alexandre Desplat wrote the music for Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom and Rise of the Guardians. Plus, Col Needham, the founder of IMDB on his influential and sometimes controversial website.

Banner image: (L-R) Alexandre Desplat and Renee Fleming. Photo by Mimi Ritzen Crawford

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