Roger W. Gardner
- Age: 72
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Aquarius
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Location: New England : United States
Interests
- The current culture wars; ancient history
- with special emphasis on the Roman Empire; general Western history
- the arts
- writing
- archaeology
- Roman and Egyptian antiquities
- enjoying my wonderful sons and our great families
- talking with my friends
- admiring beautiful women
- playing the piano
- riding my cool red Vino
- 1950s Retro Italian-style motor scooter up the winding coastline road on a warm summer afternoon
- and of course my blog and the net.
Favorite Movies
- Impossible
- but they would have to include Fellini (especially his lyrical La Strada
- and all of the other great post-war Italian neorealism directors; Scorcese; Polanski
- especially his Chinatown; William Wyler
- especially his moving and prescient The Best Years of Our Lives; the Alastair Sim version of Scrooge
- almost all of David Lean's magisterial work
- especially his wonderful Great Expectations; The Third Man; The Quiet Man; The Wild Bunch; Elia Kazan's masterpieces
- most especially On The Waterfront; Shane; Unforgiven; 2001 and Paths of Glory; The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre; A Christmas Story; and a few hundred more...
Favorite Music
- Bach
- Mozart
- Vivaldi
- Prokofiev
- Shostakovich
- Philip Glass
- Satie
- Adams
- Poulenc
- Bruckner
- Mahler
- Scriabin
- Rachmaninov
- Faure
- Debussey
- Ravel
- Walton and a few hundred more...
Favorite Books
- For non-fiction
- I would say Michael Grant for ancient history. For World War Two and Nazi Germany
- Sir John Keegan and Professor Gerhard Weinberg -- both of whom I've had the pleasure of corresponding with. And for more current topics
- Mark Steyn
- Victor Davis Hanson
- and Max Boot. Some of my favorite novelists would include Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Franz Kafka
- and just for fun
- John LeCarre
- and perhaps
- for the thrill of being transported back in time to a rowdy First Century Rome
- that fragment of a novel
- Petronius' "Satyricon".
