Film Development, Anthropology, Astronomy, Classical History, Medieval History, American Civil War History, Game Design, Folklore, Blues, Rock, Classical, Jazz, Gothic Suspense, Graveyards, Ghosts, Dinosaurs, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, screenwriting, classic movies, arts & crafts movement, Oklahoma, California, The Grand Californian Hotel, italian cooking, the United Kingdom, British comedies, cryptology, forensic science, Egyptology, Semiotics, Puzzles, Computer Games, history of science
PEOPLE STILL ALIVE:
Bill Clinton,
Hillary Clinton,
John Edwards,
Al Gore,
Aaron Sorkin ,
Janeane Garofalo,
Neil Armstrong,
Paul McCartney,
Jeff Greenfield ,
Ted Koppel ,
Walter Kronkite,
Christiane Amanpour ,
Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Sarah Brightman,
The Bangles,
Eddie Izzard ,
Margret Cho ,
Stephen Spielberg,
Jean-Michel Jarre ,
Russell T. Davies,
Olivia Newton John,
Dan Ackroyd,
Billie Piper,
Jack Black,
Mike Meyers,
M. Night Shyamalan,
Ken Burns,
Robin Williams,
Tom Baker,
Chris Carter,
David Duchovny,
Nicholas Meyer,
Ronald D. Moore,
Michelle Branch,
Grace Park,
Sarah McLachlan,
Katherine Zeta Jones,
Tom Hanks,
Peter Gabriel,
Stephen Hawking,
James Burke ,
Nick Park,
Meg Ryan,
Kate Hudson,
Amanda Bynes,
Tim Burton
PEOPLE NO LONGER (PHYSICALLY) WITH US:
Carl Sagan,
John Lennon,
George Harrison,
Muddy Waters,
Jimi Hendrix,
Ingrid Bergman,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
H.G. Wells,
C.S. Lewis,
John Holliman ,
Edward R. Murrow,
Peter Jennings,
Rod Serling,
Vincent Price,
John Belushi,
Gene Roddenberry,
Henry II (King of England),
Richard I (King of England)
Katherine of Aragon,
William Cornelious Hallford (my great grandfather),
Abraham Lincoln,
Albert Einstein,
Lord Byron,
Mary Shelley,
Alfred Hitchcock,
David Lean,
Richard Burton (the actor),
Richard Burton (the explorer),
William Shakespeare,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Shelby Foote,
Robert E. Lee,
Ulysses S. Grant,
John F. Kennedy,
Jesus,
Mohammed,
Siddhartha,
Christopher Columbus
Like the books and music, I have so many movies that I've loved that it would impossible to list them all. Here's a quick run-down, in absolutely no order at all.Lawrence of Arabia Casablanca 7 Remains of the Day Robot Carnival Raiders of the Lost Art Real Genius Flirting Bridget Jones' Diary Animal House Time Bandits The Thing Maltese Falcon O Brother, Where Art Thou? Citizen Kane The African Queen The Great Escape The Guns of Navarrone The Phantom of the Opera (w/Lon Chaney) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Mindwalk St. Elmo's Fire Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 Real Genius Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country Star Trek: First Contact 2010 Hotel Rwanda Ghandi Out of Africa Galaxy Quest The Ring Wargames Blue Thunder Die Hard Hackers Henry V Dead Again Rebecca Psycho (original) North by Northwest Rear Window Jurassic Park I & II The Lord of the Rings Do the Right Thing Star Wars, Episodes 4-6 Quatermass and the Pit War of the Worlds (the original one) Forbidden Planet The Day the Earth Stood Still Blues Brothers An American Werewolf in London Terminator I & II Gargoyles (made for TV movie) Ghostbusters Crowhaven Farm (made for TV movie) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (made for TV movie) Better off Dead Chariots of Fire One Crazy Summer Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Meaning of Life Master and Commander Batman Batman Begins Alien Aliens The Nightmare Before Christmas Office Space Gettysburg The Mummy (original and remake) The Werewolf Dracula (original Universal version) Frankenstein (original Universal version) Maverick Manhunter Apollo 13 Time After Time Signs The Sixth Sense Field of Dreams October Sky Dead Poet's Society Hope and Glory Wizards Top Secret Airplane I & II Silverado Unforgiven Young Frankenstein Almost Famous Gallipoli Breaker Morant The Children's Hour Slender Thread Empire of the Sun Silent Running Sneakers The Usual Suspects Contact Frequency Cat People (original version) The Natural The Grudge Highlander Paint Your Wagon Sommersby Somewhere In Time Howards End Excalibur The Lathe of Heaven (made for PBS version)
SERIES:Star Trek: New Voyages, The Tudors, Jericho, Lost, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Battlestar Galactica, West Wing, Rome, Monk, Carnivale, Deadwood, X-Files, Millenium, Star Trek, Stargate Atlantis, CSI, Doctor Who, Nova, Red Dwarf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Moonlighting, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Twilight Zone, Sex and the City, News Radio, WKRP in Cincinnati, Northern Exposure, MASH, The Night Stalker, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, Actor's Studio, Ghosthunters
CHANNELS I WATCH THE MOST:SciFi, Discovery, The Learning Channel, History, Science, Spike, G4, BBC America, HBO.
I read a great deal, and my tastes run all over the map. The following list doesn't come anywhere close to being a complete list of my recommended works, but these have all, in their own way, contributed to my own tastes both as a reader and a writer. Most of these authors have created other works that I've loved, but I hope through experiencing these, other doors will open for you as well."Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood "Possession" by A.S. Byatt "Master of the Five Magics" by Lyndon Hardy "Foccault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco "Connections" by James Burke "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien "Dune" by Frank Herbert "The Ballad of Frankie Silver" by Sharyn McCrumb "Necroscope" by Brian Lumley "The Black Company" by Glen Cook "The Dragonbone Chair" by Tad Williams "A Memory of Whiteness" by Kim Stanley Robinson "A Morbid Taste For Bones" by Ellis Peters "The Case Files of Lord Darcy" by Randall Garrett "The Lions of Al-Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams "Silver Pigs" by Lindsey Davis "Crossroad Blues" by Ace Atkins "Instruments of Night" by Thomas H. Cook "Oxrun Station" by Charles Grant "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove "The Shadowy Horses" by Susanna Kearsley "I Don't Know For Sure, But It Seems Like..." by J.L. Hallford "Henry's Hill Stories" by Henry G. Hallford Sr. "Duanne Barry" by Chris Carter "The Civil War" by Ken Burns "The Eight" by Katherine Neville "Twilight Eyes" by Dean Koontz "The Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin "Shopping For Buddhas" by Jeff Greenwald "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon "When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats "Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories" by Alan Brennert "Little, Big" by John Crowley "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand "Desolation Road" by Ian McDonald "Santiago" by Mike Resnick "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck "Paradise Lost" by John Milton "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare "Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield "Le Morte D'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory "You Darkness That I Come From..." by Rainer Maria Rilke "Mistress of the Empire" by Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts