I crave music. I like American Rock 'n' Roll the best, but I am a true MUSIC lover -- Pop, Country, Gospel, Punk, Surf, Bebop, 30's, 40's, Latin... try me. I love cinema, but I have a strange disorder that often constrains me to watching movies I've already seen. I do as much traveling as I can; I am always ready to go. I love walking and watching people interract with each other. That's one thing that still makes New York City such a great place to be at a time when it's eliminating a lot of the things that used to make it a great place to be.
The press. No wait, me in St. Louie.
What can I say?? Over the years on tour, I developed a pat answer for the innumerable interviewers: The Coasters, Creedence, and The Ramones. Of course, that was back in the '80's, so my intent was to pick a band from each of the Rock 'n' Roll decades who never did a lousy song. My thing is that I like songs a lot better than I like "bands" or artists. Example: "Tequila" is a great song, but I would not say I really like The Champs. Oh yeah, I like my own music a whole lot -- most of it.
Key Largo, Double Indemnity, Head, The Sting, "Kiss Me, Stupid," The Lady from Shanghai, Holiday, TOPPER (I spent most of my 20's trying to be as smooth as Cary Grant.), Monty Python and the Holy Grail. BILLY WILDER!!!
Baseball and TCM.
I will read just about anything until I find out I don't like it. Dickens and Hemingway, DAMON RUNYON, James Cain, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber. If anyone would care to jog my memory, there must be women writers I enjoy -- does Shari Flenniken count? I always think I don't read very much, but in conversations about literature, I mostly find that I'm "well read;" that may also have to do with the fact that if I haven't read a particular book, I often have an opinion on it anyway.
A funny category. I try to put everybody on a level playing field. Walt Whitman. Mother Theresa. John F. Kennedy. Doctors Without Borders.