screenwriters/directors, film, art, love, music, laughter, words that don't put me to sleep, a big smile, the world "out" there, people "out" there, smiling happy people, real people, those that "do" and not "say", the "dis"-orderly, the "non"-subscribers, those that don't compromise their vision for anything or anyone, my very own beliefs, cynics who are really closet romantics, the beautiful texture of the intense fragility of an e.e. cumming's poem, langston hughes, david mamet, oscar wilde, the poor and disenfranchised, argentinian films, the rain spraying in through an open window, introspection, thoughtfulness, sincerity, flying like an eagle into the future, and putting out the eternal flame narcissists have for themselves
those unafraid to express their opinion, the opressed and the righteous
Images of Tina Turner photographed by Robert Altman
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbeck, Les Brown, The Mills Brothers, Bunny Berigan, Chick Webb, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Lee Morgan, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Byrd, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Teddy Edwards, Stan Getz, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Johnny Griffin, Cal Tjader, Clifford Brown, Cannonball Adderley, Ray Charles, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Son House, Chuck Berry, Nina Simone, Hadda Brooks, Sam Cooke, The Temptations, ANYTHING Motown, Joe Tex, Otis Redding, Jackie Moore, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Patsy Cline, Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, Janis Joplin, Emmylou Harris, Simon and Garfunkel, The Alice Cooper Band, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, T. Rex, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Queen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Ramones, Aerosmith, The Talking Heads, AC/DC, NWA, Public Enemy, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Radiohead, Jane's Addiction, The Pretenders, The Cure, The Smiths, Tears for Fears, Prince, Jeff Buckley, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stephane Grappelli, Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Charles Trenet, Yves Montand, Tino Rossi, Paulo Conte, Virginia Rodrigues, Cesaria Evora, The Buena Vista Social Club, Ledisi, Cyrus Chestnut, Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, St. Germain, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Peter Cincotti, Thievery Corporation, Marc Moulin, Nouvelle Vague, Paris Combo, Les Nubians
FILM-MAKERS: Michelangelo Antonioni, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Pedro Almodovar, William Wyler, Ingmar Bergman, Claude Chabrol, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Kar Wai Wong, Stanley Kubrick, Bela Tarr, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Frederick Wiseman, Alain Resnais, Robert Bresson, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Coen Brothers, Gus van Sant, David Mamet, Luis Buñuel, Vittorio de Sica, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Cameron Crowe, Some John Waters-but I respect his vision, John Hughes, Robert Rodriguez. FILMS: Brother from Another Planet, Self-Made Hero, Das Boot, On the Waterfront, In The Mood For Love, L'Avventura, L'Notte, L'Eclisse, The Tin Drum, 400 Blows, Black Orpheus, Blood Simple, The Godfather I & II, Kept and Dreamless, Boyz N The Hood, My Dinner with Andre, The Bicycle Thief, Death and the Maiden, Croupier, The Anniversary Party, Bird, The Man Who Knew Too Much, LA Confidential, Jules et Jim, Umberto D., Freeway, You Can Count on Me, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Werckmeister Harmonies, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También, The Fisher King, Belle de Jour, The Seventh Seal, Rashomon, The Harmonists, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Eel, Gosford Park, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Sweet Hereafter, Vertigo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ordinary People, Welcome to The Doll House, Sex and Lucia, Lone Star, Love Jones, The Story of Adele H., Midnight Cowboy, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, My Fair Lady, Dog Day Afternoon, The Player, A Dirty Shame, French Twist, Walking and Talking, Mansfield Park, Fargo, Shortcuts, And God Created Woman, Cinema Paradiso, The Young Girls of Rochefort, City of God, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Dinner Game, Goodfellas, Strictly Ballroom, The Fisher King, Closer, Kung Fu Hustle, Run Lola Run, Garden State, Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Rouge, Blanc, Shawshank Redemption, Like Water for Chocolate, Ghost World, Sin City, The Proposition, and out of pure fun - 13 going on 30 ..
WRITERS: Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann, Kahlil Gibran, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, James Thurber, Isabel Allende, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Margeurite Duras, Italo Calvino, Joan Didion, Aldous Huxley, Po Bronson, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, David Sedaris, Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl, Maeve Binchy. TITLES: Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ways of White Folks, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Wings of the Dove, The Prophet, The Baron in the Trees, Giovanni's Room, The Big Sea, Wuthering Heights, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, The Lover, The Master and Margarita, I Wonder as I Wander, The Gambler, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Vicar of Wakefield, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Importance of Being Earnest, Giovanni's Room, Running with Scissors, Dry, The Sportswriter, Interpreter of Maladies, Tender at the Bone, The Nudist On the Late Shift, Calvin and Hobbes, Kitchen Confidential .. ..
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