Lawrence of Arabia
Tunes of Glory
Bridge on the River Kwai
Jaws
La Grand Illusion
The Right Stuff
Ridicule
The Snake Pit
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Gladiator
Bride of Frankenstein
North by Northwest
Withnail & I
Grosse Point Blank
Miller's Crossing
City Lights
The Seventh Seal
Monster's Ball
Queen Margot
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Prestige
Capote
Books:
Recently read: Collapse by Jared Diamond, My Wicked, Wicked Ways by
Errol Flynn, Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, Rise and Fall
of the Third Reich by Albert Speer...
Favorites:
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Panzer Commander: the Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The God Particle by Leon Letterman
What It Takes by Richard Ben Kramer
Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo by Joe Adamson
Me by Katharine Hepburn
The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
Favorite music:
Stars and Stripes Forever
Beethoven's piano transcription of his violin concerto
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band at Carnegie Hall
Innuendo by Queen
Favorite performances:
Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny,
Casablanca, and To Have
and Have Not
Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia
Olivia De Havilland in The Snake Pit
Alec Guiness in Tunes of Glory
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Detail, and Five Easy Pieces
William Powell in The Thin Man
Laurence Olivier in Richard III
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers
Bette Davis in Jezebel
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Charlie Chaplin in City Lights
John Cleese and Graham Chapman as The Pepperpots
Charles McKeown as The Blind Man Who Falls in a Ditch in Life of Brian
Brian Cox in Manhunter
Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs
Russell Crowe in The Insider
and A Beautiful Mind
Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, and
Alice Adams
David Strathairn in Matewan
Errol Flynn in Captain Blood
Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr.
Laurel and Hardy in Brats
Rosalind Russell in Mame and The Women
Ernie Kovacs as Percivel Dovetonsils
Peter Lorre in M and Maltese Falcon
Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
and The Mummy
Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools
Harold Lloyd in Mad Wednesday
Charles Laughton in The Private Life
of King Henry VIII
Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory
Favorite films when I was a kid (I still like them all!)
Mad Monster Party
Bride of Frankenstein
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
Duck Soup
Patton
The Raven (Roger Corman)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Producers
Favorite foods:
Maple syrup
Organic dark chocolate
burdock root
Green onions
Green and jasmine tea
