Anne

I'd like to meet:

You mean WHOM I'd like to meet...

Music:

JUDY GARLAND!!!!!!! and many great vocalists like her: Liza Minnelli (I LOVE LIZA!!!), Lorna Luft, Karen Morrow (who is also my beloved teacher), Eydie Gorme, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Bette Midler, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Michael Feinstein, Monica Mancini, Andrea Marcovicci, kd Lang, Liz Callaway, Sarah Vaughn, Peggy Lee, Madeleine Peyroux, Charles Aznavour, Tony Bennett, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Lena Horne, Melissa Manchester, Barbra... this list goes on..I live for showtunes, paticularly those of Jerry Herman (esp. "Dear World": I ADORE Angela!!!), Henry Mancini, Stephen Sondheim, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Kern, Kander and Ebb, Weill. THE GORGEOUS HUGH JACKMAN IS A MARVELOUS BROADWAY SINGER!!!

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I LOVE Sinead O'Connor. I also like Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, T-Rex, Lily Allen, The Dixie Chicks, Queen, Joni Mitchell, Suzanne Vega, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, Bikini Kill, Tegan and Sara, Simon and Garfunkel, Marianne Faithfull, Lauryn Hill, Carole King, my friend, Sierra Swan :-). Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, Sweetwater, Juliana Hatfield, Shannon Worrell, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Sandy Denny, Leonard Cohen, Nellie McKay, Judy Collins, Tracey Chapman, Lucinda Willams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Liz Phair (pre-stupid pop phase)Debussy, especially "Clair de Lune" and "Pelleas et Melisande" and Puccini's "Turandot", Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and all six of his suites for solo cello.And I like Christmas music year round!

Movies:

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I love anything with Judy Garland or Gene Kelly, really any MGM musical!! "A Star is Born", "Meet Me in St. Louis", "I Could On Singing", "Victor/Victoria", "Easter Parade", "Brigadoon", "Hello, Dolly", "Funny Girl", "The Spitfire Grill", "Gaslight", "Cabaret", "Little Voice", "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", "Thelma and Louise", "Murphy's Romance" (I love James Garner), Mike Leigh's films, esp. "Life is Sweet", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "The Red Violin", "Dark Victory", "Calendar Girls", "Gosford Park", "Steel Magnolias", "Midnight Lace", "Carrington", "The Turning Point", "Impromptu", "The Madness of King George", "The Machinist" (I love Christian Bale), "Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth" with the wonderful Adrienne Shelly, may she rest in peace... "Night, Mother", "Waitress", "Autumn Tale", "Misery" (with genius, Kathy Bates), "My Brilliant Career", "Passage to India", "The Ref" (Judy Davis is brilliant!) "Howard's End" (Emma Thompson is an idol of mine, too), "Alice in Wonderland", "Napoleon Dynamite", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "The Others", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Heavenly Creatures", "Corpse Bride", "The Little Mermaid", "The Triplets of Belleville"

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Television:

Anything on the Food Network, anything on Animal Planet, City Confidential, House (LOVE Hugh Laurie!!), Prime Suspect(the GREATEST mini-series ever with Helen Mirren, brilliant actress), The Book of Daniel (GREAT show which was cancelled, unfortunately), Six Feet Under, Weeds, Arrested Development (particularly when LIZA would guest star), Gilmore Girls, Felicity, My So-Called Life, reruns of The Golden Girls, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Cosby Show, Designing Women (Julia Sugarbaker is my hero), The Tracey Ullman Show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (I have SUCH a crush on that man; Maybe it's the Scottish brogue), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Simpsons

Books:

As far as fiction is concerned, I ADORE Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Stoddard, the Brontes, George Elliott, Barbara Kingsolver, Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Marilynne Robinson (particularly her most recent Pulitzer-Prize winner, GILEAD, a beautiful novel), Toni Morrison, Harriette Arnow's THE DOLLMAKER, Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING, THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margaret Atwood, Willa Cather, Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace (although a little esoteric and just plain gooney sometimes), Wallace Stegner, Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE (will make anyone want to be a vegetarian), Orwell's ANIMAL FARM.. this list goes on, too.Books I enjoyed as a child: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and all of Lucy Maud Montgomery's masterpieces, Beverly Cleary's chronicles of Ramona Quimby's adventures, Louisa May Alcott's works, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (one of my favorite books of all time)! and many more....As far as non-fiction texts are concerned, I appreciate all the classic and controversial works by Catherine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Luce Irigaray, Simone Weil, Helene Cixous, Simone DeBeavoir (love the French feminists), etc. Peter Singer's IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS, Carol Adams' THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF MEAT, Temple Grandin's ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION and Paul Watson's SEAL WARS have had a huge influence on me. John Stoltenberg's REFUSING TO BE A MAN should be required reading for everyone!!Poets: Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, John Keats, June Jordan,Playwrights: Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, Shaw, Sartre, Noel Coward, Paula Vogel.Marya Hornbacher's memoir, WASTED, is one of the most accurate and well-written accounts of anorexia and bulimia I have ever read. It hit very close to home for me. Marya recently wrote a work of fiction entitled, THE CENTER OF WINTER, a very poignant and heartbreaking novel.

Heroes:

Rebecca Aldworth, the late Paul Wellstone