George Tennessee Wiseman
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Biotech |
| Occupation | Jefferson Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences |
| Location | Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | I must admit I'm not really a member of the National Academy of Sciences but I thought it would be fun to put that so I'm going to imagine that I AM a scientist, just for today. Humor me. :) |
| Interests | Everything, history, dogs, art, music, crime & punishment, foreign affairs, technology, physics, politics, movies, music from the 1920, civil rights, gay rights, animal rights, human rights, global warming, offshore drilling, the economy, Hebrew studies |
| Favorite movies | GONE WITH THE WIND, THE GODFATHER, THE WIZARD OF OZ, BLADE RUNNER, PINK FLAMINGOS, CHINATOWN, CLEOPATRA (Paramount Pictures/Walter Wanger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1963), ALIEN, MODERN TIMES, THE LOVED ONE, FEMALE TROUBLE, THE SEVEN SAMURAI, BROKEN BLOSSOMS, THE TRAMP |
| Favorite music | CAROLE KING and JAMES TAYLOR, ALMOST ALL MUSIC: Classical, Baroque, Romantic, Modern, Opera, Soundtracks, R&B, Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Salsa, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, Lady Gaga, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Prokofief, Pucchini, Alex North, Elvis, Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, Sydney Bechet, Pops (Louis Armstrong), Ella, Peggy Lee, James Brown, The Carpenters, Muddy Waters, The Divine Sarah Vaughn, The fabulous, lovely and divinely chic Lena Horne, Norah Jones, The Great Mahalia Jackson, and I COULD just keep on going but why? If I had to pick a single favorite singer of all time it would unequivocally be the legendary Ella Fitzgerald. I once was fortunate enough to meet Miss Fitzgerald. Since then, life has never been the same. |
| Favorite books | The most recently read ones including AMERICAN LION: ANDREW JACKSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jon Meacham, THE EVOLUTION OF GOD by Robert Wright; DORIS DAY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by David Kaufman, LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS: THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY and CARELESS LOVE: THE UNMAKING OF ELVIS PRESLEY by Peter Guralnick, PETER THE GREAT by Derek Wilson, THE TAO OF PHYSICS by Fritjof Capra, GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell, DETOUR by Cheryl Crane, ANGELA DAVIS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Angela Y. Davis; THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE by Robert Evans, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer |