Believe it or not, there are some folks that call me "Cupcake"!
Dawn French!
French & Saunders...my favorites!
Dolly!
"One is only poor, only if you choose to be."
My IDOL!
I don't know what it is about Nicole Kidman in this video, but the girl could make me hop the fence!
I LOVE Volbeat, especially their fun cover of "I Only Wanna Be With You".
...and the HOT lead singer Michael Poulsen
I LOVE Pat!!!
One of my all-time favorite Golden Girls moments!
The fabulous Fred Astaire getting down to my favorite Adam Ant song! Ahhh the wonders of modern technology!
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Have a listen to my personalized Launch Radio page:Henry's Yahoo Launch Radio Station
For music in general, I like a little of everything. I'm not dedicated to just one genre.
Here are some examples:
-Eurythmics
-Brandi Carlile
-Volbeat
-Celia Cruz
-All-American Rejects
-The Skids
-Dolly Parton
-Timbaland
-Alison Moyet
-The Raveonettes
-Bjork
-Green Day
-Indigo Girls
-Tish Hinojosa
-Adam Ant
-Siouxsie and the Banshees,
-Montserrat Caballe
-Lucinda Williams
-Missy Elliot
-Etta James
-Buck Owens
-The Go-Go's
-Dwight Yoakam
-Kelly Willis!
-Squeeze
-Yaz
-Scissor Sisters
-Pat Benatar
-When in Rome
-No Doubt
-The Mama's and the Papa's
-Johnny and June Carter Cash
-Ella Fitzgerald
-Mary J. Blige
-Emmylou Harris
-Rose Maddox
-Edith Piaf
-The Waking Hours
-Pansy Division
-Powder!
-Erasure
-Save Ferris
-Patsy Cline
-Loretta Lynn
-The Killers
-Dusty Springfield
-The White Stripes
-Dixie Chicks
-Lari White
-Amy Grant
-Kate Bush
-Tanya Tucker
-The Beastie Boys
-Trisha Yearwood
...and the list goes
on and on.
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I love the classics all the way. I would die without Turner Classic Movies.
Real stars like Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Gene Kelly, Katharine Hepburn and others will always take a position of priority! I just can't get enough!I love going to films via American Cinemathique or the A.F.I.’s "100 Best Films" screenings at the Arclight in L.A.
Having said all that, I like some new flicks too. Depends on the pic.
I'm also a sucker for those old disaster films a la Irwin Allan, any Biopics, Hitchcock films and Mel Brooks' comedies too. .
To name just a few specific titles:
-Muriel's Wedding
-Grey Gardens
-Walk the Line
-Young Frankenstein
-Come Back Little Sheba
-The Birds
-Coal Miner's Daughter
-Move Over, Darling
-Now Voyager
-Bringing Up Baby
-The Wizard of Oz
-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
-L.A.Confidential
-Vertigo
-Mr. Skeffington
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
-Airplane
-The Philadelphia Story
-King Kong (newest or oldest version)
-The Sixth Sense
-Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte(for Agnes Moorehead alone...BRILLIANT!)
-Beautiful Thing
-The Shining
-The Lion in Winter
-Dead Ringer
(Bette Davis version)
-Sunset Boulevard
-Chinatown
-The day the Earth stood still
-His Girl Friday
-Midnight Lace
-Singing in the Rain
-Fargo
-Wait Until Dark
-Adam's Rib
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Moonstruck
-Mighty Joe Young (original)
-Strangers on a Train
-Running With Scissors
-Big Fish
-Auntie Mame
-Strangers in Good Company
-Cloverfield
and the list goes on and on....
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As previously mentioned, I always look for the classic films first.
I am such a dork that after that I usually browse through any station that might be showing a documentary. Disasters and Supernatural go to the top of the list., History, Biographies, Science, etc. follow.
I also get a daily dose of the Food Network. I love Dave Lieberman, The Barefoot Contessa (Ina Garten) and Nigella Lawson!
I LOVE to laugh though too!
I catch almost every episode that airs of "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy".
Guilty pleasures?
The Golden Girls and The Girls Next Door!!! I don’t know what it is about Hef’s harem that attracts me, but I can’t get enough!All-time faves? Bewitched, The Carol Burnett Show, Laverne & Shirley, Soap, Twilight Zone...
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Recently read?
-"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by the brilliant David Sedaris
-"Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs (I stil think he ripped off my adolescence!)
-"Wicked" by Gregory Maguire
(not one of my faves)
-"I'd Love to kiss You, but I've Just Washed My Hair-Conversations with Bette Davis"
-"The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson" a bio about agent Henry Willson
-"Committed, A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir", Dan Mathews' (VP of PETA)
-"My First Five Husbands", Rue McClanahan's autobiography
-"Michael Toliver Lives", Armistead Maupin revisits the "Tales of the City" icon.
(...didn't love it as much as the original series).
-"Tab Hunter, Confidential"
-"Behind The Screen, how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood 1910-1969" (who new?) by William Mann
All-time favorites?
-"Swanson on Swanson", Gloria Swanson's autobiography
-"Wisecracker", the story of William Haines, first openly gay Hollywood STAR!
also by William Mann
-"History of God", a study on the evolution of monotheism
(...which one's different, do you know?)
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Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter
I also have to pay respect to all the gay people before me that chose to give up their personal safety and risked death and/or imprisonment to come out of the closet.
They chose dignity and honesty over shame and secrecy.
My life would be hell without them and I could never be the happy, openly gay man that I am!