Love Wisdom William XXIc.
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| Occupation | Not Specified |
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| Introduction | Columbia Univ. NY, BA 1984, Master International Affairs 1986, intern United Nations Secretariat NY Disarmament Dept., Asian equities trader Smith Newcourt NY 1986-87, European equities sales Kleinwort Benson 1987-1990. McGill Law Faculty Montreal, Bachelor of Civil Law 1994. |
| Interests | High School: Dramatic Arts & Current Affairs. Adulthood: Global Geopolitics, Political economy, US politics, US political financing reform, Middle East politics, Environment, demographics and overpopulation, food sources, protection from cruelty to animals, creationism and evolution. Swimming, cardio and strength training for health and mood. |
| Favorite Movies | Harold and Maude, Dr.Strangelove, Blade Runner, The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Casino, Amadeus, The English Patient, Remains of the Day, Gosford Park, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Black Swan (2010), The Social Network (2010). FifthElement, Chinatown, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Patton, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Easy Rider, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Taxi Driver, Unforgiven, 12 Angry Men(1957), Deliverance(1972), Driving Miss Daisy, Terms of Endearment, The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, The Candidate, Primary Colors, TheShining, Psycho(1960), Mississippi Burning, Get Carter(1971), The Graduate, A Clockwork Orange, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Apocalypse Now, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Mash, The French Connection, A Civil Action, Rain Man, Awakenings, Cape Fear, Erin Brockovich, Magnolia, The Firm, A Few Good Men, She's Got to Have It, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Wag the Dog, American History X, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Fugitive, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Traffic, Girl Interrupted, Good Will Hunting, My Dinner With Andre, Alien, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Blood Simple, Sling Blade, Empire of the Sun, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Being There, Serpico, Fail Safe, Network, Pink Panther (only those with Peter Sellers). |
| Favorite Music | Handel's Messiah, Mozart's the Magic Flute his Requiem and his Marriage of Figaro, Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, Cat Stevens(especially soundtrack to movie Harold & Maude), Led Zeppelin II, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit, "Elton John's "Yellowbrick Road" and his "17-11-70, "Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Teach Your Children Well"and"Going Down to Yasgur's Farm, "Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Earth Wind and Fire, Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew, "Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Joan Baez, Donna Summer, Bee-Gees, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Steve Winwood, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry White, Linda Rondstadt, Carly Simon. |
| Favorite Books | Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment and The Idiot, Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dreams, Machiavelli The Prince, Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Malade Imaginaire and Le Misanthrope, Voltaire Candide, Malthus on Population, William James Pragmatism, Sartre Huis Clos, Camus La Peste, George Orwell 1984 and Animal Farm, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, B.F.Skinner Science & Human Behaviour, Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes, H.G.Wells War of the Worlds, Samuel Becket Waiting for Godot, T.S.Eliot Murder in the Cathedral, Nabokov Lolita, Tom Stoppard The Real Thing, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Jack Kerouac On the Road. |