Literature (reading it and writing it), theatre, ballet, movies, dancing, music (basically anything written before 1980), reading, knitting, Pilates, kayaking, old corners of older cities, shoe shopping, fashion design.
Travelers ... actual, armchair, or time.Women's fiction and romance readers and authors.Smart, witty, literate people who enjoy curling up with a book, and remember how good it feels. Mark Twain once said that "Books are for people who want to be someplace else."
The Beatles, Loreena McKennit, Diana Krall, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bonnie Raitt, ABBA, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bonnie Tyler, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe.
The Philadelphia Story, That Hamilton Woman, Sense and Sensibility (the Ang Lee version, screenply by Emma Thompson), Popeye (dir. Robert Altman), The Princess Bride, The Thin Man, Topsy Turvy, Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn), Holiday, Pat and Mike, Desk Set, Adam's Rib, Horse Feathers, Pan's Labyrinth, Working Girl, Over 21, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, My Favorite Wife, My Favorite Year, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda (Stuart Granger version), The Bishop's Wife, Dangerous Beauty, State of the Union.
Project Runway (my only addiction -- except for strong black coffee), Masterpiece Theatre.
Anything written by Jane Austen. Ditto, pretty much for Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Lovely Bones, In the Company of the Courtesan, My Sister's Keeper, Ella Minnow Pea. Anything written by Jasper Fforde. And of course: Miss Match, Reality Check, Temporary Insanity, Play Dates, Spin Doctor, Herself, Choosing Sophie, The Memoirs of Helen of Troy, By a Lady: Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England, Too Great a Lady: The Notorious Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton, All For Love: The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy.
William Shakespeare, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, John Glenn, JFK, RFK, Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton, John Lennon, Jim Henson, Miss Piggy, Danny Kaye, Laurence Olivier, George Bernard Shaw, Meryl Streep, Jane Austen, Margaret Sanger, Katharine Hepburn, Rosa Parks, my late grandparents, Noel Coward, Dr. Robert Siffert, William Werner, Dr. Michael Drew, Christopher Reeve.