Legal issues, public policy, political events,
environmental subjects and greener living, wildlife conservation, Civil War history, family.
Al Gore, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Paula Deen, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denzel Washington and Dawn French.
Beatles, Moody Blues, Eagles, Temptations, Four Tops, CSNY, Creedence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zepellin, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Cyndi Lauper, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Heart, MCR, Creed, Linkin Park, Matchbox Twenty, Tracy Chapman, Union Station, Handel's Water Music and Messiah. Ask me again next week.
Out of Africa, Philadelphia, The Shawshank Redemption, Gettysburg, Forrest Gump, Enemy Mine, Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian, Driving Miss Daisy, The Remains of the Day, Rob Roy, Across The Universe, Hairspray (the remake), and any old potboilers with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Susan Hayward. Pass the popcorn.
Current: CSI, Dr. G, Jeopardy; most reality cop, law, forensic and surgery shows! Classic or Vintage: AbFab, M.A.S.H., Carol Burnett Show,the Tomorrow Show and Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Prisoner in Cell Block H, Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Centennial, North and South miniseries, Ken Burns' Civil War.
I gravitate toward biographies and non-fiction on a variety of subjects, especially the sciences, but my (contemporary) favorite fictional works would include The Shining, The Stand, Centennial, Chesapeake, The Thorn Birds, The Silence of the Lambs, and almost everything by Patricia Cornwell and Tom Clancy. .
Carl Sagan, Alan Alda, Barbara Jordan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John Lennon, Meryl Streep, Paula Deen, Tom Snyder, my grandmother, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman. Dorothy Parker, H.L. Mencken.