Lauren Graham helped Amy Sherman-Palladino gain the confidence to develop fast-paced TV shows. Sherman-Palladino called Graham a 'mad scientist.' Gilmore Girls was Sherman-Palladino’s first big hit.

EUREKA! I’ve done it! After decades of research and mountains of dug-up corpses, I’ve finally engineered the perfect sci-fi book list about mad scientists! When the denizens of the internet read it, ...