Len Hart

• Gender: Male
• Industry: Communications or Media
• Occupation: Film and Video Producer
• Location: Houston : Texas : United States
• Wishlist

About Me

I grew up in cowboy country —West Texas. My most memorable mentors were a philosophy prof, Truitt Hilliard, who introduced me to existentialism, logical positivism and Haiku; well-known artist, Paul Milosevich, who reconciled art with Zen; and Neil Whiting, a talented theatrical director. Also -Mamie Carpenter, whose descriptions of Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera" stayed with me until I could confirm them for myself in Florence. Lee Holloway, ahead of her time, awakened my love of debate. Legendary criminal defense Atty Warren Burnett lectured me personally about the First Amendment. I also studied communications with Wally Jackson, a Northwestern University alumnus. My broadcasting career (radio/TV) took me to several major markets covering news for ABC, CBS and UPI. I covered and interviewed Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., Nelson Rockefeller, Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, David S. Broder, Sen. Fritz Hollings, Sen. John Tower, Beverly Sills, Gloria Steinem, Sen. Sam Ervin, Bella Abzug, George Plimpton, Milton Friedman, Ehud OImert, John Wayne, Mel Brooks, and many "movie stars", politicians, and celebs.

Interests

• Writing
• journalism
• motion picture and video production
• photography
• documentaries
• history
• philosophy
• art
• drawing
• painting
• science
• astronomy
• travel
• exploration
• languages
• chess
• cosmology

Favorite Movies

• The Wings of the Dove
• Elizabeth
• Good Night and Good Luck
• Casablanca
• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• A Man for All Seasons
• The Time Machine
• Beckett
• Schindler's List
• Ed Wood
• Sleepy Hollow
• Young Frankenstein
• Blazing Saddles
• The Silver Streak
• Ring Triology
• Harry Potter
• The Gods Must be Crazy
• The Pink Panther
• Gilda
• Dr. Strangelove
• The Magic Christian
• Dr. Zhivago
• The Producers

Favorite Music

• John Coltrane
• Roy Orbison
• Thelonious Monk
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Duke Ellington
• Fats Waller
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Rachmaninoff
• Ralph Vaughn Williams
• Scarlatti
• Handel
• Borodin
• The Beatles
• Joan Baez
• Moody Blues
• the Who
• Cream
• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
• Stevie Ray Vaughn
• Kinky Friedman
• B.B. King
• Kiri te Kanawa
• Asleep at the Wheel
• Vikki Carr

Favorite Books

• Ragtime
• Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy
• Language Truth and Logic
• Existentialism and Human Emotion
• Science and Human Values
• History of the English Speaking Peoples
• Huckleberry Finn
• A Texan in England
• Anything by E.L. Doctorow
• 1984
• It Can't Happen Here
• Brave New World
• Beckett
• The Time Machine
• A Short History of Time
• The Universe in a Nutshell
• Michael Wood's Shakespeare
• The Ascent of Man
• The Undiscovered Self