Music:
Blues (Holiday, Horne); Jazz (Ellington, Coltrane); Folk (Dylan, McLean, Simon and Garfunkel, Springsteen); Classical (Handel, Rimsky-Korsakof); and female vocalists (Collins, Ronstadt).
Movies:
Anything with Gregory Peck, David Niven, Greta Garbo, Val Kilmer, Tom Hanks, and Myrna Loy.
Television:
TCM, History Channel, PBS
Books:
Books by Nevil Shute, Nikos Kazantzakis, James Michner, Herman Wouk, Wilber Smith
Heroes:
T.E. Lawrence, Charles Gordon, Lewis & Clark, Jimmy Doolittle,