Movies and Books

 

I enjoy movies and books . Music, too. These are my favorites.

 

Movies

12 Angry Men
American Graffiti
An American Werewolf in London
Caine Mutiny
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Dirty Dozen
Fail Safe
Fargo
Godfather
Godfather, Part II
Inherit the Wind
Leaving Las Vegas
Little Giant
Maltese Falcon
On the Waterfront
Pride of the Yankees
Rear Window
Shadow of a Doubt
Taxi Driver
Time of Their Lives
To Kill A Mockingbird
Usual Suspects
Vertigo
West Side Story
Wizard of Oz

 

Books

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur

The Deuce by Robert Olen Butler

Sun Dogs by Robert Olen Butler

The Mummy by Anne Rice

The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

The Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Beach by Alex Garland

The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate by Dan Jenkins

The Broadcasters by Red Barber

Ball Four by Jim Bouton

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam

A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger

The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop

A False Spring by Pat Jordan

And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Shibumi by Trevanian

Birdy by William Wharton

Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

Boy's Life by Robert MacCammon

Flicker by Theodore Roszak

Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

Just about anything by Robert Olen Butler, William Wharton, Trevanian or David Halberstam. Earlier Anne Rice books, too. John Dickson Carr, also known as Carter Dickson, is my favorite mystery writer.

I also read presidential biographies and just about anything on Antarctica or Mount Everest. For sports reading I enjoy anything by John Feinstein.

 

Recordings

Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
Welcome to Struggleville-Vigilantes of Love
Desire-Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks-Bob Dylan
Warren Zevon-Warren Zevon
Works, Volume I-Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle-Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town-Bruce Springsteen
Crazy Joe and His Variable Speed Band
Honky Chateau-Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John
White Album-Beatles
Revolver-Beatles
Walking in London-Concrete Blonde
Leaving Las Vegas Soundtrack
American Graffiti Soundtrack
Blister Soul-Vigilantes of Love
461 Ocean Boulevard-Eric Clapton
Piano Man-Billy Joel
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School-Warren Zevon
Tommy-The Who
Quadrophenia-The Who