1.   Early fascination with electronic music technology led him to compose scores for Italian films.

2.   He credits his early fascination with movies to his father, a retired Con Edison worker.

3.   Kehoe showed an early fascination for mechanics and electricity, taking courses at Michigan State College in East Lansing.

4.   That early fascination with wriggling things led to undergraduate studies in wildlife biology at Iowa State University.

5.   That early fascination led him to work as a track laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad after he graduated from high school in Elmira.

6.   Born in Siberia to a wounded war veteran and a hospital nurse, Verlinsky says an early fascination with animals and differences between species sparked his interest in science.

7.   Lucas, who wrote the original story, explained that it stemmed from his early fascination with radio.

8.   His early fascinations -- architecture, the classics and trains -- showed up as recurring themes in his works.