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My name is Mike Groom and I am forging a career in film and television. After having worked in the industry in various less-glamarous roles, my debut feature film as a writer is being filmed in Newcastle at the moment (as of November 2006). Check out http://bubtowers.com/FILMS/20%20-%20dogging/dogging.htm for stills.Film is a passion to me and always has been.

My Interests

Cinema, Literature, People, Beauty in all its forms, Metaphysics and Spirituality, Travel.

I'd like to meet:

Living: Claudia Cardinale (most beautiful woman to ever grace the silver screen); Steven Speilberg; Derek Acorah; Clint Eastwood...Dead: William Shakespeare; Sir David Lean; Sir Alec Guinness; Jesus Christ; The Prophet Mohammed; Sir Thomas Mallory; John Keats; my grandparents; my great-grandparents; my anscestors; William Blake; Hermes Trismegistus; Leonardo Da Vinci; Gianlorenzo Bernini; The Lumiere Brothers, Jim Morrison etc etc

Music:

I love music and the energy it creates. Most notably: Henryk Gorecki; Moby; DJ Shadow; Eminem; Ennio Morricone; The Prodigy; Damien Rice; Gnarls Barkley; Sigur Ros; David Holmes; Michael Nyman; Radiohead; Carl Orff; Tracy Chapman; Oasis; Brian Eno; Nirvana; Vangelis; John Tavener; Massive Attack etc, etc

Movies:

Too many to list but here are some that come to mind: Doctor Zhivago; Once Upon a Time in the West; Pan's Labyrinth; On Golden Pond; Lawrence of Arabia; Brief Encounter; Pulp Fiction; the Star Wars saga; Koyaanisqatsi; The Third Man; Withnail & I etc etc

Television:

Lost, Shameless, South Park, Planet Earth, Ross Kemp on Cheese - sorry Gangs! Ross Kemp on Gangs!

Books:

Morte d'Artur; the works of Keats (in fact anything be The Romantics); Truffaut Hitchcock; Metamorphoses; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Credo by Melvyn Bragg, Conversations With God etc etc

Heroes:

Anyone who has the minerals to follow their dreams. Quartz and Jasper as Tim mockingly says.