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I'd like to meet:
Well...you, actually. No kidding.
Music:
The Clayton/Scott Group (Jim Clayton and Andrew Scott),
Oscar Peterson,
Miles Davis,
John Coltrane,
Gil Evans,
Terence Blanchard,
Vince Guaraldi,
Jimmy Smith,
Horace Silver,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Sammy Davis Jr.,
Blossom Dearie,
Bob Dorough,
Bobby Short,
Dave Frishberg,
Duke Ellington,
Wynton Marsalis,
Roy Hargrove,
Maurice Brown
Dexter Gordon,
Wes Montgomery,
Stevie Wonder,
Billy Joel, India.Arie, Joni Mitchell, The English Beat, The Style Council, Sqeeze, The Clash, Tom Waits, etc...also all manner of Broadway composers from George and Ira Gershwin to Frank Loesser and Stephen Sondheim.
Movies:
Malcolm X,
The Apartment,
Annie Hall,
Manhattan,
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Some Like It Hot,
Duck Soup,
Animal Crackers,
Round Midnight,
Die Hard,
The Quiet Man,
That Thing You Do!,
Dog Day Afternoon,
The Searchers,
All About Eve,
Holiday Inn,
It's a Wonderful Life,
American Splendor,
The Odd Couple,
The Producers,
All The President's Men,
The Godfather 2,
Do The Right Thing,
etc...
Television:
The West Wing,
Homicide: Life on the Street,
Studio 60,
30 Rock,
24,
The Steve Allen Show,
Sports Night,
Law and Order,
Law and Order SVU,
Chapelle's Show,
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Da Ali G Show,
The Daily Show,
The Colbert Report,
South Park,
Charlie Rose,
Anderson Cooper 360,
Live with Regis and Kelly (don't you judge me, don't you DARE judge me),
America's Next Top Model (okaaaay...judge me!)
Books:
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse,
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris,
Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx,
Act I by Moss Hart,
Benchley Beside Himself by Robert Benchley,
Bird Lives by Ross Russell,
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger,
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz,
All Too Human by George Stephanapolulous,
Jennifer Weiner - the novels and the blog,
Anything by Dorothy Parker,
Playwrights Anna Deavere Smith and George C. Wolfe,
The Joy of Cooking, etc...
Heroes:
People. Humans are great. Specifically, people that make me think, make me laugh and those that fight for social justice. That may sound inane, but it's true. Norman Granz, Steve Allen, Anna Deavere Smith, Tina Fey, Maureen Dowd, Joe Torre, Malcolm X and, well...you actually. No kidding.
