Cindy Fey
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | motherwriterteacher |
| Location | Midwest, United States |
| Introduction | A new life, different than the others, the best so far. My books, a YA novel, a rom-com, and a memoir about the early deaths of my parents, my brother Christopher and my sister Nancy, flame on the front burner again |
| Interests | writing, parenting, film, travel, lit, teaching, My mantras: No sighing before noon! At the end of the day think "What are three good things that happened today?" |
| Favorite movies | Top Hat, Michael Mann's The Insider and Heat, Vigo's L'Atalante, Dirty Dancing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The White Balloon, Andrew Davis's Pride and Prejudice, William Wyler + Bette Davis = The Letter and Jezebel, Todd Haynes + Julianne Moore = Safe and Far From Heaven, The Sweet Hereafter, Nashville, Doctor Zhivago, Faces, Killer of Sheep, The Age of Innocence, You Can Count On Me |
| Favorite music | You've been a fool and so have I/But come and be my wife/And let us try before we die/To make some sense of life/We're neither pure nor wise nor good/We'll do the best we know/We'll build our house and chop our wood/And make our garden grow/And make our garden grow, Leonard Bernstein, Joni Mitchell, the Stones, Victoria Williams, "Fix You.", Astral Weeks, Horses, "A Quick One (While He's Away)", George Frideric Handel, Mozart's clarinet concerto |
| Favorite books | Saturday, The Snow Leopard, Mommy Mantras, Personal History, Adopted Jane, Into Thin Air, David McCullough's John Adams, Operating Instructions, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Bordwell and Thompson's Film Art, The Remains of the Day, A Death in the Family, Cold Mountain, The Killer Angels. (My last reconsidering of this list removed three formerly beloved white male authors who use women as objects. I am changing.) |