Theatre, plays, musical theatre, voice, anything truly funny, TV shows, movies, Scrabble, language, writing. I'm a great believer in using proper English. We have a language -- a great one, because it allows us to communicate clearly and creatively. The recent trend of replacing English words with symbols, numbers, abbreviations and non-words is detrimental to that communication. It's not clever. It doesn't make the writer cool or interesting. What it does is hurt our ability to understand each other.NIFTY LINKS Reader's Circle
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Broadway, Joe Jackson, Billy Joel, Manhattan Transfer, Janis Siegel, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Chaka Kahn, Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, Mavis Staples, Aretha, Temptations, Stylistics, American Idol (OK. I admit it. I'm hooked.)
Among my favorites are: "Brazil," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "The Ritz," "Citizen Kane," "Cabaret," "Night of the Hunter," "The Inlaws" (the original, of course, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk), "Singin' in the Rain," "Shakespeare in Love" and "After Hours."
I miss "The Flip Wilson Show." Of course, I'm partial to my own show, HBO's "The Wire."
Favorites: "Les Miserables," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Oliver Twist," "Say Please, Say Thank You," "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." Currently reading "An Actor Behaves."
Laurence Olivier, Bob Fosse, Matthew Bourne, Joe Jackson, Martin Luther King, Phil Silvers, Mel Brooks.