Howard M. Alperin

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Gender Male
Location United States
Favorite Movies The Great Debaters, Last of the Mohicans, The Help, The Electric Horseman, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Good Night, Man on Wire, Big Fish, Freedom Writers, Rocky, Jeremiah Johnson, Vision Quest, Bad News Bears (original), The Boys from Brazil, My Bodyguard, Evita, Last of the Dogmen, Scarface, American Gigolo, Breathless, River's Edge, All the Right Moves, Risky Business, All the President's Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hard Eight, Over the Edge, Outsiders, Harold & Maude, Brokeback Mountain, Blood Diamond, Marathon Man, Last King of Scotland, The Flock, Cinema Paradiso, Titanic, Sixth Sense, Dead Man, Napoleon Dynamite, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Let it Ride, Salvador, Norte, Rata-Ratones-Rateros, Altered States, Once, Oh God!, Mamma Mia, Oh Brother- Where art Thou?, Che, There Will Be Blood, The Passenger, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Bella, Roadie (2011), Dog Day Afternoon, Charlie Wilson's War, The Tenant, Big Fan, The Lucky Ones, Half Nelson, The Dead Girl, Capote, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, Barfly, Homeboy, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, The Saint of Fort Washington, Zero Dark Thirty, To Live and Die in L.A., The Sessions
Favorite Music Abba, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Soda Stereo, Depeche Mode, Moenia, Joe Jackson, John Legend, Sean Paul, Shaggy, Vilma Palma, Waylon Jennings, OMD, Semisonic, Better than Ezra, The Cure, La Ley, The Call, Cheap Trick, U2, Juanes * Reik, Los Enanitos Verdes, Nek, ELO, Styx, Journey, Los Inquietos del Vallenato, Loverboy, Men Without Hats, Counting Crows, The Killers, KiSS, Rick Springfield, Los Yes Yes, The Stylistics, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Cumbia Kings, Belanova, The Alarm, Tears for Fears, INXS, Bryan Adams, Los Angeles Azules, Billy Joel, Alphaville, R.E.M., Bush, James Brown, Luciano Pavarotti, Queen, Adam Ant, Blondie, The Cars, La Conquista, J Geils Band, Duran Duran, Wham!, Supertramp, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Weezer, The Doors, Culture Club, Terrence Trent D'Arby
Favorite Books Manhunt-The 12 day chase for Lincoln's killer, The Gates of the Alamo, Marching Powder (True story of drugdealer doing time in Bolivian prison), The Innocent Man-Nonfiction/John Grisham, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Priceless (by the Founder of the FBI Art Crime Team), A Death in Belmont (About Boston Strangler), Seize the Sky (Custer loses to Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at Little Big Horn), A More Perfect Constitution, Bootlegger's Son (Barry Switzer's Biography), The Interpretation of Murder (Fiction-Freud helps solve a murder his only visit to U.S. in 1909), Crime and Punishment, Counting Coup (True story of high school basketball at Little Big Horn), At Play In the Fields of the Lord, Eating the Dinosaur, The Lost City of Z (about explorer Fawcett in the Amazon), The Rum Diary, Repeat Until Rich(true story about counting cards at blackjack), One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'the Kid' Ungar-Greatest Gin/Poker Player of All Time, Inside Scientology, Where Men Win Glory (Story of Pat Tillman's life and death as NFL player and Soldier in Afghanistan), The Breaks of the Game, Makes Me Wanna Holler (About being a young black man), In the Garden of Beasts (Story of American Ambassador in Nazi Germany)