Interests Travel, Photography, Movies, Writing, My beautiful children and lovely wife.
Favorite Books Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Stonehenge, The Crooked Staircase, Death on The Nile,
Favorite Authors Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Algernon Blackwood, Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout...so many!
Favorite Movies 2001 A Space Odyssey, Doctor Zhivago, Ben Hur, The Core, Lawrence of Arabia, The Third Man, Friday the 13th Part VI, Midnight Cowboy, Goodbye Mr Chips, Red, Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet. Gone With the Wind, about 100 others.
Favorite TV Shows My last favorite TV shows were "The Wild Wild West," "Get Smart," and "Brideshead Revisited." "America's Favorite Home Videos" doesn't quite cut it for me!
Favorite Music "Across the Border" by ELO, "You Got It" Roy Orbison, "Heart of Glass" Blondie, "Good Timin'" Jimmy Jones, "Houston" Dean Martin, "Because They're Young," Duane Eddy, "The Girl Sang the Blues," The Everly Brothers, "Many Tears Ago," Connie Francis - all back in the day when people could sing, you could hear the words and songwriters could write actual songs! A little like when film companies could make films without resorting to pathetic remakes.
Memories, both fond and otherwise, can be recalled by the least expected of external stimuli. A snatch of conversation, the scent of a Spring blossom, a few bars of a tune long since in vogue. Many things. So it was last week whilst queued-up in suffocating heat, waiting to board the Chunnel train back to Britain last summer, that my glance fell upon one of the uniformed young women directing cars aboard the upper deck of...
