I have a day job in video post-production and frankly, I'm nuts about movies. My favorites include Hollywood studio classics made by people like Ford, Cukor, Wyler, Hitchcock, Huston, Lubitsch, Kazan, Wilder. I like corny backstage musicals, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen comedies. I am a total sucker for shoot-'em-up gangster movies: vintage stuff like "Public Enemy" and "Little Caesar" and the big ones by Coppola, Scorsese, Tarantino, etc. I also love tearjerkers: sometimes nothing is more satisfying than crying in the dark at the movies.

I see a lot of contemporary film at work, both features and documentaries. I also watch a fair amount of foreign language films-- mostly French, German and Italian-- but some Russian, Japanese and Chinese films too. Recent recommendations: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), No Country for Old Men, Juno, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Body of War.

Laughing hard, singing solo, singing with others, storytelling, great food, etymologies & other word trivia, reading and writing erotica, spoken word, all things French, Googling and learning new stuff, travel, the Golden Age of Hollywood, sex toys, foreign languages, Girlfriend Therapy, cats and dogs, my beloved friends and family.