Don Halward
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired English Teacher |
| Location | Ladner, British Columbia, Canada |
| Interests | gadgets, photography, languages, collectables, books, people, boating, motorcycling, banjo, travel |
| Favorite movies | To Kill a Mockingbird, How Green Was My Valley, Pulp Fiction, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Field of Dreams, Branagh's Hamlet, Second-Hand Lions (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Katherine Hepburn), Lord of the Rings, The Last Dance (final concert of The Band), White Hunter Black Heart (Eastwood), most Eastwood films, Four Weddings and a Funeral (prima!), most romantic comedies |
| Favorite music | Bach (especially anything played by Glenn Gould) and most other classical, Satie, opera (a new interest), music of the 60's and 70's, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Weavers, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Valdy, Joni Mitchell, Carl Perkins, Lighthouse (remember that great Canadian group?), Chicago, The Band, Credence Clearwater Revival, Kenny Ball, bluegrass, music by my daughter, Keely (see MySpace) |
| Favorite books | anything by Mark Twain or George Bernard Shaw (favourites of my youth, for their independent thinking), Dickens (for portraying an era from the standpoint of a social conscience), Georges Simenon novels, poetry of Dylan Thomas, stuff from the Paris Literary scene, stuff from the Beat Generation, Mickey Spillane, Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant stories, Henry Miller (for Paris, and for being different), Henry James (for elegant storytelling), William Faulkner (for grammatical courage and sense of humour), Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, " and Margaret Lawrence's "A Bird in the House, " the only book that still moves me to tears and grabs me by the guts, sometimes. |