Tuesday, June 3, 2008

A sample of our interests . . .

General:

Stephen Sondheim
Leonard Bernstein
Raul Esparza
Robert Cunningham
Broadway theatre
Elaine Stritch
Barbra Streisand
John Schlesinger
old movies
old movie stars
The Venice Film Festival
world traveling
Details and Esquire magazines
George Clooney
Jackson Tippett McCrae
Ellen DeGeneres
Jackson Pollock
Isamu Noguchi
Mark Rothko
Chuck Palahniuk
David Sedaris
Karl Zerbe
Paul Cadmus
Millard Sheets
Lee Krasner
James Brooks
Willem de Kooning
Arshile Gorky
Mart Crwoley
William Friedkin
Kenneth Nelson
Cliff Gorman
Keith Prentice
Dominick Dunne
Steve Almond
Joan Didion
E.M. Forster
Emma Thompson
Stephen Fry
Will & Grace
Frasier
Scrubs
Shakespeare
Kenneth Branagh
anything erotic
Mike Nichols
Emily Watson
great books
Keats
MacLeish
Brideshead Revisited
Dante
and we could go on and on . . .

Books we like or are getting to:


To Kill A Mockingbird
Auggie March
Berlin Stories
Choke
Fight Club
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked
Survivor
Me
A Passage to India
Catcher in the Rye
The Bell Jar
Slaughterhouse-Five
Catch-22
Everything That Rises Must Converge
The Naked and the Dead
The Bark of the Dogwood
On the Road
Gravity's Rainbow
The Crying of Lot 49
Barring Some Unforeseen Accident
Mason & Dixon
Against the Day
Tale of Two Cities
Echo Park
The Castle
The Apes of God
Ulysses
The Human Stain
The Anatomy Lesson
Rabbit is Rich
Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
Middlesex
The Hours
March
Empire Falls
The Known World
A Thousand Acres
Breathing Lessons
Ironweed
A Home at the End of the World
The Way West
The Brief Wondrous Lif of Oscar Wao
The Road
Gilead
House Made of Dawn
The Color Purple
Lonsome Dove
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Fixer

Movies we love:

The Boys in the Band
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Midnight Cowboy
Angels in America
Fanny
The Longest Day
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lillies of the Field
A Thousand Clowns
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Funny Girl
Nashville
Network
Julia
The Turning Point
Coming Home
An Unmarried Woman
All That Jazz
Breaking Away
The Elephant Man
Pulp Fiction
Babe
Il Postino
Scen of a Woman
Howard's End
The Crying Game
As Good as it Gets
The Insider
Gosford Park
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Ben-Hur
Gangs of New York
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Seabiscuit
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton
Juno
Atonement
Capote
Brokeback Mountain
Munich
Wings
No Such Thing
Widow's Peak
No Country For Old Men

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