John
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Location | New Rochelle, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Bon vivant, raconteur, flaneur, other French words. Husband of a brilliant, gorgeous, funny, loving wife; father of a 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, to whom the same adjectives apply. News editor at a weekly feature section of a great national newspaper. About a 3.5 on the NTRP tennis rating scale (3.0 on a bad day). |
| Interests | parenting, news media, politics, playing tennis, Martha's Vineyard vacations, television, music, movies, sports, Scotch whisky, beer, wine, biking, economics, architecture, energy transition |
| Favorite movies | Broadcast News, Withnail and I, Pulp Fiction, The Untouchables, Miller's Crossing, Groundhog Day, Unforgiven, Chinatown, Trading Places, The Paper, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Die Hard, The Thin Man, Woman of the Year, Caddyshack, Metropolitan, The Shining, Bull Durham, Citizen Kane, Ocean's Eleven (2001), Raising Arizona, Airplane!, Top Secret!, The Last Seduction |
| Favorite music | Elvis Costello, the Smiths/Morrissey, Bettie Serveert, the English Beat, Everything but the Girl, the Style Council/Paul Weller, the Specials, A Tribe Called Quest, Foo Fighters, the Beatles, the Strokes, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac |
| Favorite books | The Information (Amis), London Fields (Amis), The Stories of John Cheever, The Garden of Eden (Hemingway), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), The Confessions of Felix Krull (Mann), Master of the Senate (Caro), Pet Sematary (King), Independence Day (Ford), The Sportswriter (Ford), Home Repairs (Ellis), The Rules of Attraction (different Ellis) |