I'd like to meet:
Sidney Lumet
Music:
Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Tommy James and the Shondells, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, The Turtles, Van Halen, Rolling Stones, Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Beausoleil, Tom Rush, Ladysmith Black Mumbazo, Elvis Presley, Guns and Roses, Duke Ellington, Al Jolson, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Carlos Nunez, The Byrds, Wilson Pickett, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, and more-- many more
Movies:
In no particular order: On the Waterfront, Apocalypse Now, Red Dust, Singin' in the Rain, The Bicycle Thief, His Girl Friday, The Divorcee, The Pawnbroker, Harold and Maude, Public Enemy, The Hustler, It Happened One Night, Body and Soul, Raging Bull, West Side Story, Dog Day Afternoon, Roma: Citta Aperta, La Strada, Seven Samurai, All Quiet on the Western Front, 42nd Street, South Pacific, White Heat, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Be or Not To Be, The Pianist, 12 Angry Men, The French Connection, The Conversation, Logan's Run, Blade Runner, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, When Ladies Meet (1st version), Ann Vickers, The Champ (Jackie Cooper version), Somebody up There Likes Me, Little Caesar, Three on a Match, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Super Troopers, The Longest Day, Duck Soup, Kiss Me Stupid, A Place in the Sun, From Here To Eternity, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Some Like It Hot, The Defiant Ones, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Citizen Kane, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gone with the Wind, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton version), Mutiny on the Bounty (also Charles Laughton version), Witness for the Prosecution, Judgement at Nuremburg, Ordinary People, Kramer vs. Kramer, Streetcar Named Desire, Gentleman's Agreement, Midnight Cowboy, Amadeus, The 400 Blows, Deer Hunter, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Best Years of Our Lives, A Lion in Winter, Beckett, Whale Rider, Bringing Up Baby, Notorious, Philadelphia Story, oh man-- so many more too
Television:
Boston Legal, West Wing (in the Aaron Sorkin Days), Arrested Development (come back!), Family Guy, Homicide: Life on the Street (hooray for Barry Levinson), Six Feet Under, Oz(I guess I don't watch TV anymore-- all the good shows are gone-- 'cept Boston Legal-- I recommend it)
Books:
Tender is the Night, The Power and the Glory, The Sun Also Rises, Fitzgerald's Short Stories, Graham Greene's short stories and Hemingway's Poetry
Heroes:
Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Dalai Lama, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ted and Bobby Kennedy, my Mom and Dad