Comedy, movies, baseball, acoustic guitar, history, mystery books, music, politics.
Mel Brooks. He just gets it. Or I get him. Or something. I'd like to sit down and talk to Mel Brooks.Gene Wilder. Especialy if Mel Brooks comes along, but either way.Paul Reiser. I suspect we're somehow related.Barack Obama. To see if he's for real.Hillary Clinton. To compare her to Barack Obama. Seems fair.Billy Crystal. I need to ask him something.Jon Stewart. Just to say thanks for keeping me sane since 2001.Ringo Starr. You know he'll give you the GOOD stories.Paul Simon. I don't believe some of those chords, and I want to see him do it right in front of me, to prove they can be played.Robert B. Parker. But he'd probably write a book just while we were talking.Did I mention Mel Brooks?BUT MOSTLY: Booksellers and mystery fans.
Beatles, first. Then, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Fountains of Wayne, Everything But the Girl (before they became a dance band), Jim Croce, A.J. Croce, Harry Nilsson, Boz Scaggs, Susan Werner... I could go on...
HORSE FEATHERS, DUCK SOUP, MONKEY BUSINESS, ANIMAL CRACKERS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, BLAZING SADDLES, THE PRODUCERS, A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, FIELD OF DREAMS, SILVERADO, THE SEARCHERS, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, REAR WINDOW, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE BANK DICK, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, DINER
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, BURN NOTICE, 24, SCRUBS, TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, MONK
Besides mine? GROUCHO, HARPO, CHICO AND SOMETIMES ZEPPO, by Joe Adamson. Julia Spencer-Fleming. David Skibbins. JA Konrath. Chris Grabenstein. Robert B. Parker. Linda Ellerbee. Also Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling and Irwin Shaw.
John Lennon, Harpo Marx, Gene Wilder, Paul Simon, Thurman Munson, Peter O'Toole, Carl Reiner, Carole King, Woodward and Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Jerry Seigel, Bill Cosby, Jon Stewart, Abe Lincoln (he was pretty good), Mel Brooks.