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Ellen

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About Me

It's not all about me, as I have learned over the years...
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My Interests

Good movies, theatre, books; Notre Dame football; Jeopardy; cooking; what I do for a living (most of the time); and those I love...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who has also learned this...

Music:

Gnarls Barkley; Beatles; Beethoven; Bernstein; Copeland; Elgar; Fleetwood Mac; Gershwin; Etta James; McLaughlin; Midler; Joni Mitchell; Simon and Garfunkel; Max Steiner; James Taylor...

Movies:

Now, Voyager, Jezebel, Dark Victory, and pretty much anything else with Bette Davis; East of Eden, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause; A Place in the Sun; Hilary and Jackie; Life as a House; Legends of the Fall; Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet; Shakespeare in Love...

Television:

Six Feet Under reruns; Sopranos; Entourage; My So-Called Life; Fawlty Towers; Felicity; Sex and the City; Elizabeth I; maybe Studio 60 at Sunset Strip (remains to be seen). Guilty Pleasures: Project Runway; Laguna Beach, The Hills (I can't look away); EastEnders.

Books:

Anything by Doris Lessing or Ursula le Guin; a lot of women's science fiction; Lord of the Rings before everyone ruined it; Watership Down; "Stieglitz at Lake George", "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005", Annie Liebowitz; and other stunning photography books...

Heroes:

Those who are honest and true; have humor and self-knowledge; love and support those who support them. You know who you are.