Apart from SF and Fantasy (and literature in general), my main interests are film, archaeology and history, sport, opera (particularly Mozart), cookery, military history and hardware, computer games, both world wars, music in general, mythology, Shakespeare and the history of theatre, and English literature.
Jenny Agutter, Sigourney Weaver, Diana Rigg...oh, sorry, you didn't mean that, did you?Writers (published and unpublished); publishing and other media professionals; interested parties.
50s and 60s RnB; opera; jazz (from big band to the Jazz Warriors); lots of Good Stuff.
CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, THE SEARCHERS, BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH, HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, GALAXY QUEST, THE LAST VALLEY, SLEEPY HOLLOW, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE CORPSE BRIDE, ED WOOD, ZULU, THE LONGEST DAY, A CANTERBURY TALE, SCROOGE (ALASTAIR SIM), THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, ALFIE (ORIGINAL), GET CARTER (ORIGINAL), A FEW DOLLARS MORE, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A DAY AT THE RACES, GUYS AND DOLLS, THE IPCRESS FILE, HIGH SOCIETY, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, LEON, THE THIN MAN, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, CAPTAIN BLOOD, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, THE RIGHT STUFF, THE BIG CHILL, THE BIG EASY, THE BIG SLEEP, ALIEN, GHOSTBUSTERS, CYRANO, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE BLUES BROTHERS, OLIVIER'S HENRY V AND RICHARD III…many others
The Avengers, The West Wing, The League of Gentlemen, CSI (original series)...
Many, many favourites. Fiction ranges from Dickens' OUR MUTUAL FRIEND to Iain Banks' THE BRIDGE. Non-fiction from Orlando Figes' NATASHA'S DANCE (A Cultural History of Russia) to Roy Porter's ENLIGHTENMENT.Since I published SF and Fantasy for fifteen years, I have a number of favourites there, too. Let's mention authors rather than specific books: Alfred Bester, Philip K Dick, Frederik Pohl & C M Kornbluth, Greg Bear, Brian Aldiss, J G Ballard, Tom Disch, Roger Zelazny (pre-AMBER), Robert Silverberg, Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson, Iain M Banks, Ian McDonald, Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, on the SF side. Fritz Leiber, E R Eddison, J R R Tolkien, George R R Martin, Robert Holdstock, Tim Powers, Mike Moorcock, Ian R MacLeod, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Steven Erikson, Guy Gavriel Kay in Fantasy. There are a great many others I could also mention!
Robert Mitchum, Richard Dawkins, Jacob Bronowski