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Model: American
Make: Male
Style: Caucasion
Year: 1964 (year of the buzzard...or was it vulture ?) 
Currently resides in: Alabama
Married: yes - many years - many l-o-n-g years 
Children: three units
Member of IMDB since Nov. 2000
My love of film brings me here, so, let me share some of my favorites in order for you to get to know a little about me. (this is also known as Entertainment Profiling)
My current (but ever changing) top 20 favorite films:
1. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967
2. Sunset BLVD - 1950
3. Sling Blade - 1996
4. What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 1993
5. Mulholland Dr. - 2001
6. HUD - 1963
7. Coal Miner's Daughter - 1980
8. The Grapes of Wrath - 1940
9. Scarlet Street - 1945
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962
11. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951
12. White Heat - 1949
13. Election - 1999
14. El Dorado - 1966
15. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 1958
16. The Straight Story - 1999
17. Gone with the Wind - 1939
18. Some Like it Hot - 1959
19. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 1962
20. Faster, Pussycat! Kill ! Kill ! (1965)
Chances are, if a film has John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott or Robert Ryan starring in it, it will be a favorite,
regardless of quality or merit. 
favorite non-American films:
Listed in their American titles....
In no particular order,
1. Tokyo Story - 1953
2. The Cranes are Flying - 1957
3. Andrei Rublev - 1969
4. Germany Year Zero - 1948
5. Never on Sunday - 1960
6. Day of Wrath - 1943
7. The Bicycle Thief - 1948
8. M - 1931
9. Wild Strawberries - 1957
10. The Clay Bird - 2002
11. The Spirit of the Beehive - 1973
12. The Devil's Backbone - 2001
13. A Tale of Two Sisters - 2003
14. Fanny and Alexander - 1982
15. The Shop on Main Street - 1965
16. The 4th Man - 1983
17. The Eye - 2002
18. Closely Watched Trains - 1967
19. Metropolis - 1927
20. Seven Samurai - 1954
Favorite Cult / Trash /'B'/ and Stinkers
1. Harold and Maude - 1971
2. Faster Pussycat, Kill ! Kill ! - 1965
3. Mommie Dearest - 1981
4. The Re-Animator - 1985
5. You Never Can Tell - 1951
6. Bedtime for Bonzo - 1951
7. Mudhoney - 1965
8. It Grows on Trees - 1952
9. Spider Baby - 1968
10. Straight-Jacket - 1964
11. The Tingler - 1959
12. Bonzo Goes to College - 1952
13. The Loved One - 1965
14. Desperate Living - 1977
15. Valley of the Dolls - 1967
16. Videodrome - 1983
17. Eraserhead - 1977
18. The Honeymoon Killers - 1970
19. The Sadist - 1963
Favorite films that slipped under the radar....and I would highly recommend.
1. Return to Paradise - 1998
2. 11:14 - 2003
3. Dallas 362 - 2003
4. Undertow - 2004
5. The Station Agent - 2003
6. The Hidden - 1987
7. A Love Song for Bobby Long - 2004
8. One False Move - 1992
9. A Simple Plan - 1998
10. Bagdad Cafe - 1987
11. Psycho Beach Party - 2000
Favorite Actors - John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Paul Newman, James Cagney, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, W.C. Fields, Robert Duvall Alastair Sim, Bob Hope, Henry Fonda, Groucho Marx, Richard Farnsworth, Melvyn Douglas, Humphrey Bogart, John Gielgud, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frederic March, James Garner, William Powell, Paul Douglas, Gary Cooper, Robert Ryan, Johnny Depp, Van Heflin, Paul Muni, Robert Mitchum, Edward G. Robinson, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Walter Huston, Dirk Bogarde, Victor McLaglen, Gregory Peck, Stanley Holloway
Favorite Actresses - Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Faye Dunaway, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Bette Davis, Mary Astor, Sissy Spacek, Joan Bennett, Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, Margaret Rutherford, Bibi Anderson, Gloria Grahame, Elizabeth Taylor, Naomi Watts, Celia Johnson, Reese Witherspoon, Linda Darnell, Wendy Hiller, Anne Bancroft
Favorite supporters - Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Walter Brennan, Gabby Hayes, Thelma Ritter, Una O'Connor, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dub Taylor, Charley Grapewin, Strother Martin, Peter Lorre, Earl Holliman, Chill Wills, Agnes Moorehead, Buelah Bondi, Slim Pickens, Charles Coburn, Marie Windsor, Arthur Kennedy, Sydney Greenstreet, Dan Duryea, Raymond Burr, Charles McGraw, Marjorie Main, Bruce Cabot, Ellen Corby, Jan Sterling, Brian Donlevy, Jack Carson, Elisha Cook Jr., Alan Hale, George Kennedy, James Arness, Nina Foch, John McIntyre.
Favorite Directors - Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray, Howard Hawks, Carol Reed, Elia Kazan, Arthur Penn, David Lean, David Lynch, Jules Dassin, Billy Wilder, John Ford, William A. Wellman, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Michael Curtiz, John Cassavetes, Richard Fleischer, Fred Zinnemann (and several more I'm forgetting at the moment)
More favorite films, in no particular order:
Westerns
The Big Country - 1958
El Dorado - 1967
Rio Bravo - 1958
The Ox-Bow Incident - 1943
Stagecoach - 1939
The Grey Fox - 1983
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 1962
The Naked Spur - 1953
The Tin Star - 1957
Warlock - 1959
3:10 to Yuma - 1957
The Shootist - 1976
Hombre - 1967
Support Your Local Sherriff - 1969
Ride the High Country - 1962
Seven Men from Now - 1957
Broken Lance - 1954
Lonesome Dove - 1989
The Desperadoes - 1943
TEXAS - 1941
Open Range - 2003
Gunfight at the OK Corral - 1957
Once Upon a Time in the West - 1968
Yellow Sky - 1948
The Sheepman - 1958
Tall in the Saddle - 1944
The Man from Colorado - 1948
Crawford
The Damned Don't Cry - 1950
Johnny Guitar - 1954
Mildred Pierce - 1945
Possessed - 1947
Harriet Craig - 1950
Flamingo Road - 1949
Strange Cargo - 1940
Autumn Leaves - 1956
Sudden Fear - 1952
Queen Bee - 1955
This Woman is Dangerous - 1952
Bob Hope and W.C. Fields
Anything they starred in is a favorite,
even "Cancel my Reservation" and "Poppy". These men were comical geniuses. 
John Wayne
Anything he starred in is a favorite,
even The Conquerer. The man was a genius !
Bogart
Casablanca - 1942
The Enforcer - 1951
Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948
The Caine Mutiny - 1954
The Maltese Falcon - 1941
The Big Sleep - 1946
The Desperate Hours - 1955
Key Largo - 1948
In a Lonely Place - 1950
The Harder they Fall - 1956
Various:
Metropolis - 1927 ( a stunning achievement)
You Only Live Once - 1937
House by the River - 1950
Hangmen Also Die - 1943
Man Hunt - 1941
Clash by Night - 1952
The Woman in the Window - 1944
Green for Danger - 1946
The Bicycle Thieves - 1947
Gone With the Wind - 1939
It's a Gift - 1934
Man on the Flying Trapeze - 1935
They Died With Their Boots On - 1941
The Best Years of our Lives - 1946
Oliver Twist - 1948
Patterns - 1956
Scarface - 1932
I am a Fugitive from a Chaingang - 1932
Nightmare Alley - 1947
The Third Man - 1949
The Miracle Worker - 1962
If.... 1968
Act of Violence - 1949
12 Angry Men - 1957
The Big Heat - 1953
The Phenix City Story - 1955
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1945
Odd Man Out - 1947
No Way Out - 1950
Galaxy Quest - 1999
This Happy Breed - 1944
Counter-Attack - 1945
Cinema Paradiso - 1988
The Heiress - 1949
The Sting - 1973
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte - 1964
Crossfire - 1947
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - 1946
Aliens - 1986
Casablanca - 1942
The Roaring Twenties - 1939
Intruder in the Dust - 1949
Kiss Me Deadly - 1955
House on 92nd Street - 1945
The Letter - 1940
The Color Purple - 1985
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - 1966
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - 1985
To Be or Not To Be - 1942
Psycho - 1960
What About Bob ? 1991
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane - 1962
Ladybird, Ladybird - 1995
Duck Soup - 1933
Belle de Jour - 1967
Planet of the Apes - 1968
Mommie Dearest - 1981
Rosemary's Baby - 1968
Shaun of the Dead - 2004
The Thin Man - 1934
Vera Drake - 2004
The House of Sand and Fog - 2003
Sorry, Wrong Number - 1948
My all-time favorite performance from an actor : Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight in The Straight Story
Actress: Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde
I consider Angelo Badalamenti's "Laurens Walking" the singular most beautiful piece of music ever written for a motion picture. (from The Straight Story) This beautiful music seems to capture and tell my life story. I'm sure some of you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I love watching classic films on a lazy, rainy afternoon or early in the morning.
I love watching horror films late at night.
I prefer watching films at home, usually alone or with a very few, select friends and family.
In popular music, I love:
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The B-52's
The Beatles
The Go-Betweens
The Coral
Comsat Angels
Chameleons UK
The Kinks
The Zutons
The Easybeats
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
The Cramps
Echo and the Bunnymen
Southern Culture on the Skids
The Pixies
The THE
Blondie
The Shadows
The Cascades
Squeeze
The Buzzcocks
The Undertones
The Byrds
AC-DC
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Shoes
Tubeway Army/Gary Numan
The White Stripes
The dB's
George Jones
Merle Haggard
Charley Pride
The Pursuit of Happiness
Neil Young
Let's Active
Jimmy Reed
Supergrass
The Searchers
The Smithereens
Darling Buds
BR5-49
Billie Holiday
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones
Big and Rich
early Dolly Parton
Conway Twitty
Loretta Lynn
The Toadies
Devo
Dave Clark 5
Parliament
Marty Robbins
Johnny Cash
KC and the Sunshine Band...
The Coasters
Patty Loveless
Patsy Cline
Hank Williams
Chris Issak
Lucinda Williams
The Earls
The Cascades
Gary Glitter...
The Gants
Garnet Mimms
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
The Go-Go's...
Kentucky Headhunters
Chuck Berry
Fats Domino
Little Richard
Aretha Franklin
The Supremes
Tommy James
The Doors
fave authors:
Robert R. McCammon
Peter Robinson
Tess Gerritsen
Ruth Rendell
John Lutz
Richard Montanari
Andrew Klaven
Judith Hawkes
Elizabeth Massie
J.A. Jance
Tom Wolfe
Shirley Jackson
Edgar Allen Poe
H P Lovecraft
Charles Dickens
Dodie Smith
early Anne Rice
early Stephen King
Sue Grafton
I love pre-1960 Architecture
I love classic cars
I love "soul food"
I love "genuine" people
I love animals
I love Marilyn Monroe, Naomi Watts, Jim Morrison, Richard Pryor, Sharon Stone and Debbie Harry
I love beautiful places
I love beautiful smells
I love to laugh and hear other's laughter
I love antique furniture, especially Chippendale pieces
I love antebellum homes
My favorite sports are tennis and soccer
I really enjoy those rare, undescribable moments when you are having deep, heartfelt and moving conversations with great friends and family.....those conversations that are about anything and leads anywhere.
I am a huge fan of coffee. HUGE !
My biggest achievement in life is having three truly beautiful and wonderful children who are as earthbound and life-loving as their father.
My most prized possession is my music collection, when at last count, was approaching the ten thousand mark. (on album, cassettes and CD's.)
I love the breathtaking, modern artwork of Thomas Kinkade, whom many serious art lovers consider a "pretentious panderer," but whom I consider a gifted artist. Art is definately in the eye of the beholder, and this cat really "floats my boat." For a sample of his work, go to the link provided:
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web. tk.CatalogServlet
I hope this info. gives you a little insight about me.
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