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Gender Male
Occupation Retired
Location Concord, Californai , United States
Interests Linguistics, Languages, Italian, Tagalog, Philippines, Jewish Culture, Literature, Audio Books, British TV and BBC radio, Fiction: mysteries, thrillers, crime-detection, suspense, horror, Golden Age Mysteries, table tennis, US softball, bowling, Liberal politics, Humanism, World Cinema, Film Noir, Cinema Giallo, "Classic" Cinema, Science Fiction, Horror and 1950's musical movies, Taxi Driver, The Deerhunter, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Favorite Movies The Godfather I and II, Forbidden Planet, The Thing (from Another World) (1951), Un Homme et Une Femme, Excalibur, The Maltese Falcon, Superman, "Z", La Belle et la Bête, Il Postino, The Seven Samurai, The Usual Suspects, Champion, Gunfight at O.K. Corral, Spartacus, Kiss the Blood off my Hands, Jim Thorpe - All American, The Wizard of Oz, Brute Force, The Killers (1946), Judgement at Nuremburg, From Here to Eternity, El Maestro de Escrima, The Seventh Seal, Casablanca, The Exorcist, Twelve Angry Men, Dr. Strangelove, The Man in the White Suit, Great Expectations, Black Orpheus (1959) Orfeu Negro, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Triplets of Belleville, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, Julius Caesar (1953), Bad Day at Black Rock, The African Queen, To Kill a Mockingbird, Orpheus (1950)Orphée, Wuthering Heights (1939), Hamlet (1948), Richard III, Clash of the Titans (1981), Jason and the Argonauts (1963, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Quiet Man, King Kong (1933), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Calamity Jane, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Zulu!, Doctor No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Fiddler on the Roof, Alien, Aliens, The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1945), Murder on the Orient Express, The Asphalt Jungle, Some Like it Hot, Johnny Stecchino, Tell No One (2006) Ne le dis à personne, Yojimbo, Five Easy Pieces, Sophie's Choice, Manhattan