I love royalty, dancing, singing, fine wining and dining, cultural education, museum-going, writing, playing, ALL kinds of music (yes, including country and classical), afternoon tea, deeply philosophical discussions during spontaneous road trips, REALLY fast cars, yachts and villas in the Mediterranean, uncontrollable fits of laughter on the floor, and random good deeds for random deserving people . . . among other things. =)
Everyone who is open-minded
Wow, okay (in no particular order) . . . Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Usher, Franz Ferdinand, Keith Urban, Jay-Z, BIG, P. Diddy, Bow Wow, Pretty Ricky, Frou Frou, Dido, BT, Taylor, Rascal Flatts, Heart, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Ella Fitzgerald, Missy, The Smiths, Morissey, The Cranberries, All-American Rejects, Modest Mouse, Eminem, Andrea Bocelli, 50 Cent, Enigma, Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Incubus, Tchaikovsky, Michael Jackson . . . I think you get the idea . . .
Pride and Prejudice (the A&E version), Pirates of the Caribbean, the ORIGINAL Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fast and Furious, ALL James Bond movies, the Princess Diaries, Vanity Fair, Garden State, My Fair Lady, Ever After, Bridget Jones' Diary, Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, The Shawshank Redemption, The LOTR Trilogy, Harry Potter, and I like a lot of Bollywood movies, as well as nearly every Disney movie made prior to Hercules.
All anyone really needs to become a well-rounded-tv-watching-person are five things: OPRAH, 24 featuring JACK BAUER, Sex and the City, The Daily Show, and any one of the random reality tv shows that are out there.
Anything by Dan Brown or Jane Austen . . . then, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Fire and Ice by Michael Adams, Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks, Granny Dan by Danielle Steel, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. There are others, but this is the last box, and I'm sure you're tired of reading . . . =) so ask me later!
Aside from the obvious (Dr. Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Jesus, etc.), my family . . . then The Big Four: Princess Diana, Oprah, Nelson Mandela and Sir Richard Branson.