It's baseball season. Actually, if you're a Red Sox fan, it's pretty much always baseball season - and I'm definitely a card-carrying member of the Nation. Just ask me. I'll whip out my wallet and show it to you. Let me put it this way, I've waited overnight for spring training tickets in Fort Myers. Plus, my office is almost all Sox collectibles, and I think my Yankees friends are scared to go in there for fear of either jinxing their team or just melting like the witch in the Wizard of Oz. I should buy stock in the Danbury Mint. Those guys love me. GO SOX!!!!
Carroll O'Connor and Johnny Depp immediately come to mind. I'm sure there are others, but these are the two that I'd most like to meet. Other than the obvious final exit, I've yet to encounter anyone who's figured out a way to meet dead people, so I suppose Carroll O'Connor's out for now. Johnny Depp is my wife's favorite, too, and, if we ever tripped over enough luck to run into him, I'm afraid she'd freak out and scare him off. Johnny, if you're reading this in between Parisian cigarette and coffee breaks, please ignore my wife's incoherent babbling and googly eyes and pose for a picture with her.
As long as I can actually understand the words and don't have to hold my ears to keep them from bleeding, I can pretty much appreciate any type of music. 96 Tears.
This is, like, brain-freeze for actors. You know that, right? Okay, okay...Godfather, Godfather II, Cool Hand Luke, Color Purple, Blues Brothers, Man in the Iron Mask, Hustler, Man with the Golden Arm, Gone with the Wind, Star Wars, Falling Down, Jerk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Indiana Jones, Mary Poppins, Kill Bill, Witness for the Prosecution, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Uncle Buck, Office Space, Saving Private Ryan, Planet of the Apes, Sting, On Golden Pond, anything Python or commented on by Tom Servo and Crooooooow
Some of my all-time favorites are All in the Family, Little House on the Prairie, Moonlighting, Star Trek, Buffy, Angel, Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Cosby Show, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Simpsons, King of the Hill and Malcolm in the Middle. I'm sure I'm forgetting a whole bunch, but I'll add them as I remember. I'll pretty much watch almost any documentary. Then again, I get sucked in by infommercials, too, so I suppose there's no accounting for taste. My wife's gotten me into 24. To be honest, there's not all that much to watch on television these days. We've just had rabbit ears since we moved out of Orlando. Reality shows are killing us actors! Please stop watching them! They're stealing our work and ruining what's left of the few only semi-toxic airwaves!
My favorite books are by the same group of authors. They include J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King and C.S. Lewis. In terms of Tolkien and Lewis, if you haven't figured out that those books include Hobbit, LOTR and the Chronicles of Narnia, you might want to give them a read some time. As for King, well, he does crank 'em out, doesn't he? This Constant Reader's pick is the Dark Tower series. I'm hoping to eventually forgive Mr. King for the ending. If you need a specific Stephen King novel, I'd have to narrow it down to the abridged version of the Stand, closely followed by It.Enough with the garsh darn lists, already! I like me just fine, but I can't imagine anyone else finding what I have to say so vital to life that they need me to make a list for them. Then again, it's my space, so now I'm putting my thumb on my nose and waving my fingers like a flag at you.
It's probably too corn-syrupy for most of you, but my wife is my hero. I couldn't do what I do without her. Anyone who supports an actor deserves the highest of high praise. She is my angel.