richman0829
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired teacher, Army Reservist |
| Location | Long Beach, CA, United States |
| Interests | Reading and Omnilore discussion group; computers (made my own graph to monitor diet and exercise regimen), travel (Vixen motorhome, space-available military hops). |
| Favorite movies | 10 Commandments, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, 7 Up/49 Up, Adventures of Robin Hood, African Queen, Anchors Aweigh, Back to the Future, Ben-Hur, Best Years of Our Lives, Bicentennial Man, Big Country, Bridge on the River Kwai, Captains Courageous, Casablanca, Casino Royale (‘07), Cheaper By The Dozen (‘50), Cinema Paradiso, Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Clueless, Cold Turkey, Day the Earth Stood Still, Dead of Night, Decline of the American Empire (then Barbarian Invasions), Dinner Game, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, District B-13, ET, El Cid, Exorcist, Fantasia, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Forbidden Planet, Friendly Persuasion, From Russia With Love, Gandhi, Gigi, Gleaners, Godfather, Gods Must Be Crazy, Gold Rush, Great Escape, Harvey, High Noon, Himalayas, Hospital, How Green Was My Valley, I’m All Right Jack, Incredibles, Inherit the Wind, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jerry Maguire, Judgment at Nuremberg, Jungle Book, King and I, King Kong, Kon-Tiki, L.A. Confidential, Lawrence of Arabia, Life of Emile Zola, Lord of the Rings, Lost Horizon, Lost Weekend, M, MASH, Major Barbara, Malcolm X, Maltese Falcon, A Man for All Seasons, Manchurian Candidate (‘62), Marty, Meet Me in St. Louis, Memento, Men in Black, Les Misérables, Misfits, Missing, Monsieur Verdoux, Monte Walsh, Moscow on the Hudson, Motorcycle Diaries, Mountains of the Moon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Music Man (‘62), My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, On the Beach, On the Waterfront, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Paths of Glory, Patton, People vs. Larry Flint, Pinocchio, Punchline, Quest For Fire, Quiet Man, Scaramouche, Shane, Singin’ in the Rain, Snow White and 7 Dwarfs, Some Like It Hot, South Pacific, Spartacus, Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Star Wars, Three Musketeers (‘48), Tight Little Island, Titfield Thunderbolt, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, True Grit, Verdict, Vikings, Visitors (Fr.), Who Framed Roger Rabbit,Will Penny, Wizard of Oz, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Zatoichi |
| Favorite music | Dixieland, Give Me The Simple Life (S. Tyrell), Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony, anything by Prokofiev |
| Favorite books | £200 Millionaire (short story), Atlas Shrugged, Automatic Millionaire, Boat of a Million Years, Central Liberal Truth, Cohousing, Colossus trilogy, Declaration of Independence, Evolution of Cooperation, Fail-Safe Investing, Farewell to Alms, Federalist Papers, For Us the Living, Fountainhead, Guns Germs and Steel, Hobbit series, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, I See You (short story), Lensman and Skylark series, Little Book of Common Sense Investing, March of Folly, Millennial Project, Millionaire Next Door, More Than Human, Nero Wolfe series, Nonzero, Passages, Richest Man in Babylon, Singularity is Near, Starship Troopers, Steel Beach, Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, The 100, The Prince, Tipping Point, Transparent Society, Travis McGee series, Voyaging on a Small Income, Walden, Walden Two, Wareville series, White Guilt, Why Government Doesn’t Work, Wind in the Willows, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |