Robert Nason's Culture Bog
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | I've published articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Jewish Review of Books, Commentary, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, and The Mailer Review. |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Introduction | Native New Yorker. Bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University, 2 years of film study at Purchase College, 2 years studying acting at HB Studio, 2 months studying French at Reid Hall in Paris, 2 tours of duty as a volunteer on Kibbutz Degania Bet. Is this too much information? |
| Interests | Film, theater, literature, travel, swimming, book collecting, adventurous dining. |
| Favorite Movies | Citizen Kane, Psycho, Breathless, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Rear-Window, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Double Indemnity, Metropolis, City Lights, My Dinner with Andre, All About Eve, Funny Face, An American in Paris, The Bad and The Beautiful, Borat, The Graduate, Chinatown, Manhattan, Network, The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Bride of Frankenstein, The Producers (1968 version), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Casablanca, Sweet Smell of Success, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence of Arabia, The King's Speech, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Charade, Bob le Flambeur, Last Tango in Paris, Eyes Wide Shut, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Young Frankenstein, Touch of Evil, The Godfather, Part 2, The Music Box, The Passenger, 8 1/2. |
| Favorite Music | Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Classical, . |
| Favorite Books | A Child of the Century, The Sun Also Rises, Portnoy's Complaint, Humboldt's Gift, Catch-22, The Armies of the Night, Of a Fire on the Moon, Here at the New Yorker, In Cold Blood, Triumph of the Therapeutic, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, What Makes Sammy Run? 1984, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Shock of the New, William Saroyan's Obituaries, Flicker, Nausea, The Outsider, Dying Inside, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Martian Chronicles, The Big Sleep, Tropic of Cancer, You Can't Go Home Again, The Razor's Edge, Cakes and Ale, Cat's Cradle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Late, Great Creature, The Essential Ellison, The Gods Themselves, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Orson Welles: A Life, Collected Plays of Harold Pinter, Ulysses, The Lord of the Rings, Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s, Understanding Media, City of Nets, I Lost it at the Movies, The Israelis: Founders and Sons The Brothers Karamazov, My Life and Hard Times, The Illusion of Technique, A Moveable Feast To Jerusalem and Back, A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888/89, H.L. Mencken's Prejudices, Getting Even, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The Great Comic Book Heroes, The Portable Nietzsche, Plays of Anton Chekhov, The Theater of Revolt, Plato's Symposium, What Mad Universe? |
What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?
When I had a package of a thousand of them bought at the old Gimbel's department store for a pittance.