orchids, beasties & Constantinople -- am also partial to historical novels and horror movies.
Rosalind Russell, C-C-Claudius, Richard Ross, St. Ignatius & Jack Hannah.
Silence ... sweet silence. Lo-Fi Sugar, Possum Dixon, Pixies.
Kiss Me Deadly, Baby Face Nelson & Kansas City Confidential. Also, Microcosmos, Winged Migration & March of the Penguins.
The Dakotas and Gunsmoke. Masterpiece Theater.
The Good Soldier, Play it as it Lays, Tarbell Course in Magic, All the King's Men, American Psycho, Geek Love, Sound and the Fury, anything prose by Robert Graves and Bachelor 2000 (www.bachelor2000.com).
Gracie Allen, Kelly Wearstler & Sherman, owner of the New Beverly Cinema.