Doug Bale
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | increasingly retired |
| Location | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | oldtime newspaper guy, longtime theatre writer, sometime sailor, bigtime bookworm, parttime bookseller, fulltime husband |
| Interests | books, plays, films, television, classical music, jazz, sailing, cycling, photography, travel. politics, language . . . |
| Favorite movies | The Quiet Man, To Have and Have Not, Red River, Chicago, A Sunday in the Country, Master and Commander, Sense and Sensibility, Henry V (Olivier's), Richard III (McKellen's), Mr. Hulot's Holiday, |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssoh, Ravel, Debussy, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Berlin, Carmichael, Porter, Waller |
| Favorite books | Shakespeare, Shaw, Dickens, Feydeau, Molière, Carlyle, Chesterton, Coward, Forester, Ransome, Atwood, Richler, crime writers (Hammett, Chandler, MacDonald, Stout, Simenon, Sayers, Rankin, Freeling, Mankell, Leonard and the marvellous John McFetridge) |