RichardL
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| Interests | Reading fiction and history, playing golf and tennis, cinema, eating out, good conversation, Billy Connolly (THE storyteller), The Economist (aah, libertarianism), World Soccer (the thinking man's footie mag) |
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| Favorite movies | Aliens, Terminator 2, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Twelve Angry Men, The Sound of Music (no shame), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Pinocchio, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Goldfinger, Airplane, The Godfather, Ghostbusters, Batman, ET, Back to the Future, Transformers: The Movie, The Never-Ending Story, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Die Hard, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars (the old ones), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Jurassic Park, Gladiator, The Big Lebowski, Broken Flowers, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, Casino Royale, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hot Fuzz |
| Favorite music | Queen, Nirvana, Texas, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Garbage, The Verve, Fleetwood Mac, Eminem, classical music (the stirring stuff). |
| Favorite books | The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, The Color Purple, 1984, Lord of the Flies, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The Butcher Boy, Fathers and Sons, Catch-22, Great Expectations, Dombey and Son, Far from the Madding Crowd, Paradise Lost, The Old Man and the Sea, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Henry V, The Rover (fiction and plays). Crazy Horse and Custer, The Wages of Destruction, Law's Empire, The Last Days of Socrates, Freakonomics (biography, history, law, philosophy, economics). |