Movie: On the Waterfront. This one’s easy.
Album: This was really, really hard. I had ready answers to the other three, but surprisingly I’d never thought about this question. My tastes are very varied - could have been a recording of Faure’s Piano Quartets, could have been the OCA of Sweeney Todd, or perhaps Ella and Louis Again. But after some consideration, I’ll go with Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads. That’s one of the few albums that I liked back in my younger days that I still listen to.
TV Show: Sports Night.
Novel: The Great Gatsby. By a shade over Midnight’s Children.
Play: Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw.
Oh, so difficult. I’m going to have to go with my classic choices.
Movie — O Brother Where Art Thou?
Album — Green, REM
TV Show — MASH*
Novel — Lonesome Dove
Other; Flower — Sunflowers. No other thing makes me happier, unless it’s cowboy boots.
Movie: Into The Night(1985)
Album: Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Television: General Hospital
Novel: Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love
Non-Fiction: Allan Sherman’s The Rape Of The AP*E**
Movie: Indiana Jones The Last Crusade
Album: Hounds of love by Kate Bush
TV Show: Fawlty Towers
Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert
Other: classical composition Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler
Movie: A Clockwork Orange
TV show: My Name is Earl
Album: The Alan Parsons Project, The Definitive Collection
Novel: Gone With the Wind
Other: Zatarain’s Creole Seasoning
Movie: The Green Mile
TV show: Simpsons
Album: Jesus Christ Superstar (original concept LP)
Novel: The World According to Garp
Stage musical: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
Annie, I almost said Garp! It was my absolute most favoritest novel for years and years. I can practically quote it from memory.
Wow, this is incredibly tough for me. I’m torn between listing “all-time favorites” or “current faves.” List might be a mix of both…
Movie: Rushmore
TV Show: The Wire
Album: Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Novel:* A Wrinkle in Time *(1st novel I ever read, at age 6, and still my favorite 30 yrs later)
Candy Bar: Cadbury Dairy Milk “Fruit & Nut” bar
Movie: Citizen Kane
TV Show: Unsolved Mysteries
Album: Teenage Fanclub, Songs From Northern Britain
Novel: James Ellroy, LA Confidential
Other: Jaleo in Bethesda
Movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Album: Ohh…so many. This answer will change by the day. Right now, I’ll say Alice Cooper’s Brutal Planet, though something by the Alan Parsons Project and/or Assemblage 23 are very, very close
TV Show: CSI (used to be *House *but that’s slipped in the past couple of years–my criteria for favorite is the one I most look forward to seeing new episodes of)
Novel: Atlas Shrugged
Video game: World of Warcraft
Movie: Airplane
Novel: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Album: Special Forces by .38 Special
Sport: Columbus Cottonmouths hockey
Other: Cornish Rex cats
Movie: “Pride and Prejudice” mini-series
Album: “La Traviata” with Ileana Cotrubas and Placido Domingo, conducted by Carlos Kleiber.
TV Show: “Magnum, PI.” This has been my answer for so long despite the fact that I haven’t seen an episode in at least 10 years.
Novel: Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers. High-fives to SpoilerVirgin.
Other: Baseball, specifically the Cleveland Indians.
Movie: Blazing Saddles
Album: Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
TV Show: Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons
Novel: Shogun
Other: Macaroni & cheese (like my mom makes)
I struggled with the novel because I tend to read a lot of sci-fi short stories or series, and I haven’t read into to the thread to see if series could count, given the wording in the OP. So I went with a novel that I seem to reliably pick up every five years or so to re-read.
The others were fairly easy, once I thought about them, although I nearly said “The Dark Knight” for movie. But I’ve got Blazing Saddles far too memorized to overlook it as favorite.
I intentionally avoided reading other responses first so mine wouldn’t be influenced. But if I had, I would have chosen this, as well!
Movie: Splendor in the Grass with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty
Album: Elvis Costello Armed Forces
TV Show: Disappeared
Novel: Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness”
Poem: Either Lynn Emanuel’s Inspiration or On Waking After Dreaming of Raoul, from the book “The Dig,” totally worth the two dollars and change a used copy sells for on amazon…
Movie: Coraline 3-D.
Album: The Wall.
TV Show: Gargoyles.
Novel: Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
Other: Board Game: Puerto Rico.
Movie: Pi
Album: Powderfinger’s Internationalist, runner-up Silverchair’s Young Modern
TV Show: This is SO HARD. But people have already voted for NewsRadio and 3rd Rock, so I’ll say Firefly.
Novel: August 1914 by Solzhenitsyn - it’s just so beautifully written
Other: Drink: Chai latte
Movie: City Lights
Album: Charley Patton: King of the Delta Blues
TV Show: *Simpsons
*Novel: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Board Game: Scrabble
Nice list – I think my favourite so far (besides my own of course)
My take on Garp is that it is a novel about sexual abnormalities. Garp is sexual normal, surrounded by a bunch of sexual (Tee! Hee!) whackjobs.