Henry Dane
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | TV Writer/Producer |
| Location | Boston, MA, United States |
| Favorite Movies | Blade Runner, Sling Blade, (will consider other movies with "blade" in the title, but not of the Wesley Snipes "Blade" series), The Visitor, The Crowd (1928), Working Girl, Chinatown, Good Will Hunting, Pecker, Birdcage, The list is long, Diract Angsept Gestung* (see Favorite Books). |
| Favorite Music | Billy Joel, Rupert Holmes, Burton Cummings & the Guess Who, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carly Simon, The Kinks, Cashman & West ... It's true. I love '70s music. But I also like some Classical and even Jazz and Big Band. |
| Favorite Books | Anything by Raymond Chandler, "Two Minute Rule" by Robert Crais, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, *"Wasp" by Eric Frank Russell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" & "Down & Out In Paris & London" by George Orwell, "Hunger" by Knut Hamsen, "The Given Day" & "Live by Night" by Dennis Lehane, "Early Autumn, " "A Savage Place, " "Looking for Rachel Wallace, " "Small Vices" by Robert B. Parker, "A Fairy Tale of New York" by J.P. Donleavy, "Archie and Mehitabel" by Don Marquis, "The Mist, " "The Stand, " "Bag of Bones, " "On Writing, " Or really just about anything by Stephen King, "Story" by Robert McKee, The Matthew Scudder series, by Lawrence Block, The Dave Robicheaux and Billy Bob Holland series by James Lee Burke, The Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series by Robert Crais (I just started re-reading 'em from the start and they're even better second time around!), The Jackson Donne series by Dave White, Everything by L.A Morse, The Jake Sands series by Ron Ely, Anything by Bill Bryson, The Easy Rawlins series by Walter Mosley, "Fortunate Son" by Walter Mosley, Anything by Michael Connelly ... The Ray Dudgeon series by Sean Chercover, Wait -- how could I forget: ANYTHING by Joe R. Lansdale, in particular the Hap & Leonard series, but really any of his novels or short story collections, The Michael Kelly series by Michael T. Harvey, Anything by Duane Swierczynski, The short story collections of Raymond Carver and T.C. Boyle, Anything by Charles Bukowski, but especially "Ham on Rye, " The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett, The Parker series by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), Anything by Tucker Coe (also Donald Westlake), Anything by Jonathan Valis, "The Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy ... oh, and sci-fi: Anything by Robert Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Frederick Brown (plus his mysteries), Bob Shaw, James White, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, And hey, how about all the New Wave Brits: John Braine, John Wain, Alan Sillitoe ... Somebody stop me! |