Studying old Movies, discovering new Music, Learning and debating History, Practicing Photography, Searching out new Designs, Admiring brave new Architecture and old classical buildings, Reading great writers and thinkers, Sculpting heads out of clay blocks, Saving Animals like dogs, dolphins and anything that is oppressed.
Winston Churchill, Horace, John Adams, Catherine the Great, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Gene Kelly, Judie Dench, Lily Tomlin, Janis Joplin, Robert Frost, Leo Tolstoy, Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Taylor, Nina Simone, Bob Hope, Spencer Tracy, Diane Keaton, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Edith Piaf, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, John Lennon, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Jodie Foster, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, Luc Besson, Ingmar Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Harrison Ford, Faye Dunaway, Roy Scheider, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Bette Middler, Barbra Streisand, Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Annie Liebovitz, Paul Newman, Grace Kelly, Tommy Lee Jones, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Downing Jr., Lauren Baccall, Sophia Loren, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bono, Gene Wilder, Warren Beatty, Oliver Stone, Dan Akroyd, Billy Crystal, Jon Stewart, Jane Fonda, Willem Defoe...
Oasis, U2, REM, The Verve, Live, George Michael, Frank Sinatra, Sade, Alanis Morissette, Moby, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pretenders, Elton John, Chopin, Cat Stevens, Nina Simone, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Janis Joplin, Sting, Seal, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Supertramp, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Faure, Delibes, Bizet, Puccini, Cristina Branco, Haris Alixiou, Dulce Pontes, Yo-Yo Ma, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Murray Head, Simon and Garfunkel, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Buena Vista Social Club, Propeller Heads, Fleetwood Mac, Five for Fighting, Glenn Gould, Billy Joel, Sade, Kim Carnes, Train, Nickelback, Michael Buble, Harmonium, Billy Idol, Jane Arden, Sarah McLaughlin, Pretenders, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin
Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Some Like it Hot, Chinatown, Terms of Endearment, The Godfather, Belle de Jour, On the Waterfront, White Christmas, Notorious, Life is Beautiful, L.A. Confidential, Casablanca, The Sound of Music, Sleeper, West Side Story, Jaws, Sunset Boulevard, The Truman Show, Persona, Jules et Jim, Wings of Desire, My Own Private Idaho, The Postman Always rings Twice, Citizen Kane, Curly Top, Stalker, Reservoir Dogs, Sullivan's Travels, Sophie's Choice, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, ET, La Ronde, Apocalypse Now, An American in Paris, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Thelma and Louise, Oklahoma!, Erin Brokovitch, Boogie Nights, When Harry Met Sally, Rebel without a Cause, Peeping Tom, The Battle of Algiers, In the Heat of the Night, Stand by Me, Bonnie and Clyde, To Kill A Mockingbird, Klute, Scarface, The Three Penny Opera, The Red Shoes, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shining, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Hustler, Fantasia, Once Upon a time in America, The Wages of Fear, The Seven Year Itch, Cabaret, Touch of Evil, A Room with a View, 8 1/2, Orpheus, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Aurevoir les Enfants, Dangerous Liaisons, The Great Escape, The Apartment, Gone with the Wind, Star Wars, Safety Last, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, The good the bad and the ugly, A Streetcar named Desire, North by Northwest, Enter the Dragon, The Four Hundred Blows, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Metropolis, The Seven Samurai, The Third Man, To Catch a Thief, Singin in the Rain, Annie Hall, Something's gotta give, What's Opera Doc?, The Pornographers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Remains of the Day, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train, Forrest Gump, The French Connection, My Life as a Dog, The Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace, how to Marry a Millionaire, All the President's Men, A Star is Born, Gone With the Wind, Seven, Contact, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Dolce Vita, Rosemary's Baby, Dirty Harry, Falling Down, Repulsion, The Silence of the Lambs, Giant, The bicycle Thief, The Untouchables, All About Eve, Casablanca, From Here to Eternity, Fargo, The Deer Hunter, The Leopard, The Red Shoes, It's a Wonderful Life, The Piano, The King and I, Betty Blue, To Have and Have Not, Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
The History Channel, The Documentary Channel: "The American Ruling Class", "An Inconvenient Truth", "Shark Water", Biography Channel, Turner Movie Classics Channel, Mega Structures on the Discovery Channel, CSI, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs; "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Beaudelaire; Les Fable de la Fontaine; "How to be a Canadian" by Will & Ian Ferguson; "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir; "Gigi" by Colette; Emily Dickenson; "Jayne Eyre" by Emily Bronte; "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen; "Tropic of Cancer" by Anais Nin; "Contes" de Voltaire; "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein, Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Balzac.
Big supporter of public policies to protect animals, Eva Peron, Virginia Woolf, Virgil, Emile Zola, Dorothy Parker, John Adams, Carol Burnett, Meryl Streep, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucille Ball, Agatha Christie, Ginger Rogers, Shirley MacLaine, Isidora Duncan, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gloria Steinem, Martha Graham, Gabrielle Coco Chanel, Helena Rubenstein, Kathleen Turner, Murphy Brown, Dolly Parton, Rosalind Russell, Elizabeth Taylor, Superman, Spiderman, Gandhi, Charlotte Rampling, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Nick Knight, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Max Dupain, Doisneau, Paolo Roversi, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, JeanLoup Sieff, Albert Watson, Orson Welles, Bettina...