Jon Rudd
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| Gender | MALE |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired History Teacher |
| Location | Bethesda , Maryland , United States |
| Introduction | b. 1950, Palo Alto, CA. Married(Madeleine), one son (Richard). Education: Swarthmore College, BA, 1973; Georgetown University, MA, 1980. Georgetown University PhD, 1988. Teaching Experience: Adjunct teaching at Georgetown University, United States Naval Academy, Hood College, Prince George's Community College, 1988-2000; Full time at PGCC, 2000-2019. |
| Interests | Collecting tasteless ashtrays dating from the Eisenhower Administration , especially the delta-shaped ones. |
| Favorite Movies | The Big Sleep , Children of Men , Blazing Saddles , The Hidden Fortress , Amarcord , Chinatown , Paths of Glory , Auntie Mame , Alexander Nevsky , Black Orpheus , The Small Back Room , A Night to Remember , Rebecca , The Thin Man , Tunes of Glory , All the King's Men(1949) , The Wild Bunch , Marlowe , Kiss Me Deadly , Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas , Citizen Kane , From Here to Eternity , The Night Stalker , The Untouchables , Silverado , Zulu , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The Last Wave , Bonnie & Clyde , The Bird Cage , Invaders from Mars(1953) , The Maltese Falcon , Quatermass & the Pit , Dr. Strangelove , Laura , The Best Years of Our Lives , The Day the Earth Caught Fire , Bringing Up Baby , Jezebel , The Clouded Yellow , The Thing from Another World(1951) , Pulp Fiction , Grand Illusion , On the Waterfront , Rio Bravo , Passport to Pimlico , The African Queen , Children of Paradise , Strangers on a Train , Stalag 17 , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Yojimbo , The Wages of Fear , Red River , Some Like It Hot , North by Northwest , The Third Man , Stray Dog , La Strada , Fargo , Double Indemnity , 8 1/2 , Tom Jones , The 39 Steps , Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956) , The Seven Samurai , Whiskey Galore , L.A. Confidential , The Man in the White Suit , The Cruel Sea , The Bridge on the River Kwai , Suddenly Last Summer , House of Games , Kill Bill , The Three Musketeers(1973) , The Dam Busters , Oliver Twist(1948) |
| Favorite Music | Marin Marais , Steely Dan |
| Favorite Books | Sein und Zeit(just kiddin') , The Anatomy of Melancholy , , "Politics & the English Language" , "The Roads Must Roll" , "If This Goes On..." , "On a Monstrous Child" , "The Library of Babel" , Gulliver's Travel's , Persian Letters , The Magic Mountain , One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gravity's Rainbow , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , The Leopard , Aeschylus , Death on the Installment Plan , Homer , War with the Newts , Tropic of Cancer , The Great Gatsby , Dog Years , Tristram Shandy , Rebellion in the Backlands , The Polish Officer , Thucydides , Dracula |