I love Lilian Harvey. That's really all you need to know about me to figure out everything else.
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Mostly my wife and two kids. I also collect vintage clothing, odd and ends, and music. Oh yeah: and I have an inordinate interest in drinking martinis (Saphire-- dry with an extra olive).
Any respectable degenerates obsessed with the living in the 1930s and 1940s.
Benny Goodman above all else. Lately, I find myself listening a lot to the Boswell Sisters and old European swing and pop (my favorites are Josephine Baker, Rudi Schuricke, Lilian Harvey, Marlene Dietrich, and Hans Albers). In lighter moods, I like Frank, Bing, Cab Calloway and the Andrews Sisters. ...and I'll admit that like all ex-80s artsy-fartsy types, I still don't get tired of Morrisey.
'Cabaret' has to be my favorite, because I've seen it about two hundred times. Other favorites: 'Casablanca'-- best movie ever; 'The Third Man'-- most underrated movie ever; 'Lawrence of Arabia'-- I wanted to BE Lawrence when I was a kid; 'Schindler's List'-- someone once told me that I reminder her of Oskar Schindler (bless her heart); 'The Thin Man' series-- I'm working on being William Powell now.
Turner Classic Movies, baby!
'The Great Gatsby' is my favorite, and gets my vote for "Best Book of the 20th Century", with 'Lolita' being runner-up. If we're talking writers in general: I've read everything by Hemingway and Orwell-- I just plain like those two. I have a big soft spot for Milan Kundera. I also can't get enough of 'The Wasteland' by Elliot-- I can't count the number of times I've re-read that and it just keeps getting funnier.
What I'm reading right now:
It's a fantastic collection of short articles by a journalist in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s. It's sort of a thinking man's travelog about daily life in the unofficial capital of the Weimar Republic. Yes, it's really fun to read and well-written.
The older I get, the more it is only my dad. He taught me not to give a shit about heroes. But then again, my dad is a huge Frank Sinatra fan... I think there is both a moral and an irony in there somewhere.