Bill Treadway
My blogs
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Professional writer. Movie lover. Need I say more? |
| Interests | movies, music, writing (both fiction and reviewing), talking with my friends, politics, social issues, reading, pro wrestling (Ring of Honor/WWE/TNA), baseball, hanging out with The Godfather, cooking, repairing things around the house, natural remedies, filmmaking, |
| Favorite movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Producers, Nashville, Pinocchio, ALL the Disney classic animated features and short subjects, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Great Dictator (oh hell-ALL Chaplin), The General (oh hell-ALL silent Keaton. The talkies though..),Safety Last (oh bloody hell-ALL Lloyd),West Side Story, Superman 1 and 2 and Returns (fuck 3 and 4), Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, Frenzy, Almost Famous, Apocalypse Now, King Kong (1933 only please), Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, Neil Young Heart of Gold, The Last Waltz, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let it Be, Heroes of World Class, Once, The Family Jewels, The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Batman- Mask of the Phantasm, shinbone alley, Winter Kills, Being There, Night of the Living Dead 1968, Dawn of the Dead 1978, Day of the Dead 1985, Land of the Dead 2005, Martin, Creepshow, Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), Born Losers, Billy Jack, Captains Courageous, Arsenic and Old Lace, It's a Wonderful Life, early Marx Brothers, The Godfather 1 and 2 (forget 3), The Pride of the Yankees, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, silent Lon Chaney Sr, Harry and Tonto, An Unmarried Woman, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, most Woody Allen (except September and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy), the Pink Panther sequels..and many more. |
| Favorite music | Crosby Stills and Nash (my favorite group), Neil Young, The Beatles, Todd Rundgren, The Beach Boys, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chase, Harry Chapin, Gram Parsons, The Byrds (especially the later era stuff), Gene Clark, Traffic, Steve Winwood, Badfinger, The Monkees, Tommy James and the Shondells, Tommy Roe, Classics IV, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, The Grass Roots, Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, Lobo, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Buffalo Springfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream, Blind Faith, Eric Clapton, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis Presley, Santana, Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield, The Blues Project..and many others. |
| Favorite books | Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999-06, I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, Two Weeks in the Midday Sun (Ebert's Cannes journal), Leonard Maltin's guides; How I Made One Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime by Roger Corman, Final Cut (the chronicle of the making of Heaven's Gate), Elia Kazan: A Life, Mick Foley's 2 autobiographies, To Be the Man by Ric Flair, Harry Potter, ANY Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Lawrence Sanders or Tom Clancy, Crosby Stills and Nash: the Official Biography, Conversations with Wilder; Pure Dynamite; Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir by Peter Fonda; Little House on the Prairie; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lord of the Rings (don't get me started on those movies..)To Kill a Mockingbird; Adventures in the Screen Trade; What Lie Did I Tell?; Summer Sisters (which I hope to make into a film someday) |
Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.
Because if I ever wear a scarf, I'll be confused for internationally wanted gangster Johnny Throat.