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Well, these are the living ones, off the top of my head: Bono, Billy Graham, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Sachs, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Kevin Smith, Maureen O'Hara, Olivia de Havilland, Marcus and Jane Buckingham, and definitely the guy or gal who can get me the job I want.
I love all kinds...depends on my mood...one of my favorite bands is U2. Bono is awesome: verily, he doth rock.
Braveheart, Chariots of Fire, Saving Private Ryan, Casablanca, Apollo 13, Quiz Show, Ben Hur, Gladiator, Branagh's Henry V, Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank Redemption, The Scarlet and the Black, Your Garden- Variety Series (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, James Bond, Shrek, etc.), The Matrix, Hitchcock's Classics, Gettysburg, Dogma, Crash, Elizabeth, Lonesome Dove, Layer Cake, The Sound of Music, Airplane, The Karate Kid, The Rock, The Last of the Mohicans, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Usual Suspects, Start the Revolution Without Me, gut-busting comedies ... just off the top of my head, of course ...
Lost, Rome, 24, The Sopranos, The Shield, Entourage, Arrested Development, Frasier, Family Guy, South Park, Scrubs, and The Daily Show (though frankly, I don't watch all of these regularly).
Ecclesiastes and The Song of Solomon, Job and John, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, Anything by Shakespeare, The Harry Potter Series (and proud of it), The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Art of War, Team of Rivals, All the King's Men, Gates of Fire, Robinson Crusoe, Clancy's early Jack Ryan Series, On Wings of Eagles, Pillars of the Earth, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I am Charlotte Simmons, The Chronicles of Narnia, Through Gates of Splendor, The Peace Child, Habakkuk ... also, one of the best political books I've ever read (and several times at that) is The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria -- I'd strongly recommend it.
The 300 at Thermopylae, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus Christ, St. Peter, Martin Luther, Gustavus Adolphus, All the Renaissance Era scholars and artists (especially Shakespeare), Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Teddy Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, FDR, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK and RFK, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham, Warren Buffett, Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, J.K. Rowling, Master Yoda ... and, of course: my family and friends! One simply can't have enough good role models.