Cathleen

I'd like to meet:

Hugh Hefner

Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, Madonna, Mike Ovitz, Sue Mengers, Bono, George Clooney, Bill Maher, Bruce Springsteen, Simon Cowell, Karl Lagerfeld, Nigella Lawson, Anna Wintour,Tom Ford, Tim Gunn.

Music:

Seminal: The Beatles Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen Jackson Browne Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Peter Frampton The Partridge Family Mink DeVille U2

Late 70's Summer Hits: Brother Louie-The Stories Brandy (you're a fine girl)-Looking Glass Dancing in the Moonlight-King Harvest Oh Babe What would you say?-Hurricane Smith Stuck in the Middle with You-Stealer's Wheel Radar Love-Golden Earring I'm on Fire-Dwight Twilley Band

Early 80's New Wave: Elvis Costello Nick Lowe David Johanson Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, Martha and the Muffins, Go-Gos Ah-ha, Wang Chung, Echo and the Bunnymen

Other: Chick folk rock: Beth Orton, Roseanne Cash Soundtracks: Garden State, Laurel Canyon Current: Regina Spektor

Movies:

Gone with the Wind The Sound of Music Coming Home Face-Off It Happened One Night The Godfather Boogie Nights

Television:

Current: The Wire The Shield The Sopranos Cold Case (I always cry at the end) Close to Home (I know, more shameful than Cold Case) Rescue Me Competition: Project Runway, Top Chef Two and a Half Men The Brini Maxwell Show Cooking Shows: Nigella Eats, Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello, The Barefoot Contessa

Classic: The Honeymooners My Three Sons The Munsters Batman Superman F Troop Monty Python's Flying Circus Flip Wilson Captain Kangaroo

Books:

Childhood/Pre-teen: Nancy Drew books "Go Dog Go" All of a Kind Family Harriet the Spy Stuart Little Greek and Norse Mythology

Classics/Quasi-classics: Pride and Prejudice Sons and Lovers Angle of Repose-Wallace Stegner Dawn Powell novels The Beast in the Jungle-Henry James

Memoir/Non-fiction: Bronx Primitive-Kate Simon Slouching Towards Bethlehem-Joan Didion Nora Ephron early essays The Duke of Deception-Geoffrey Wolf The Diaries of Dawn Powell Into the Wild-Jon Krakauer

Contemporary Fiction: High Fidelity-Nick Hornby Bright Lights, Big City If the River Was Whiskey-TC Boyle

Heroes:

Peter Lawford Rodney Dangerfield Camilla Parker Bowles Rasputin Cleon Jones Gayle King Maria Von Trapp Totie Fields Theodore Roosevelt Dawn Powell Coco Chanel Mr. Peanut John Lennon (everyone has him-he's like the MySpace Tom of heroes) John McKenna Dave Singleton YOUR NAME HERE