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Interests

Vast & Varied...

Art - worked as an assistant to world famous Artist & Architect Herbert Bayer, AIA (1900-1985); who was the last living member of the Bauhaus School of Design. This resulted in my becoming an Art Consultant to two major American corporate Art Collections before getting into film production. Love it all, from ancient artifacts... to huge, bold abstract paintings & monumental sculpture; and "animated" Neon Signs.

Films - from "silents" & Foreign (right now exploring extreme Japanese Horror) to Hwd Action films laced with CGI FX. Love all genres & styles (except for slasher & porno films). See my partial list below...

Books - Love poking around in used bookstores... I'm always seeking Art Books published by Harry Abrams; and searching for copies of anything by Clark Ashton Smith.

Archaeology - My love of Architecture and History since my childhood has resulted in my life-long fascination with antiquities and artifacts; also handcolored engravings depicting early archaeological encounters with ancient ruins of bygone civilizations... A subject that has always inspired, influenced & provided my overactive imagination (and writing) with a fertile minefield of unexplored possibilities.

Science Fiction - contemporary & futuristic (stories & films)... I'll add a complete list of favorite authors later. Arthur C. Clark; Ray Bradbury; James Blish, Robert Heinlein; Philip K. Dick (years before "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was adapted into Bladerunner).

Horror - From Gothic to Supernatural. HP Lovecraft; Poe; Ray Bradbury; Clive Barker; Wm. F. Nolan; Charles Beaumont; Richard Matheson; Dennis Etchison; August Derlith and my favorite poet and the most cryptic visionary of the supernatural of them all...Clark Ashton Smith.

Travel - Exploring cities & rainforests. Love the Tropics. Anywhere near the Ocean (turquoise tropical seas to roaring cobalt-blue waves driven by ice cold gale-force winds in the Pacific Northwest). Love the sights and sounds of a Big City (Seattle & New York - my favorite US Cities).

High-performance sports cars, race cars & Hot Rods; especially Can-Am Series, Formula One & Nostalgia Drag Racing. Built a couple of "Hot Rods" over the years. Once put a Chevy 350 V8 into a Porsche 914. My first car was a '38 Chevy with a "torque monster" big block (389) Pontiac with "tri-power" carbs.

Books

Too many to list now... (see my list of movies). Must give credit to Linda Seger's "Creating Unforgettable Characters" & Stephanie Palmer's "Good in a Room" for getting me out of the trenches of Film Production and boosting me up the ladder to "above the line."

Movies

A Partial list of Hollywood Films:
(Foreign Film List Coming Soon!)

The Passion
Ben Hur
Spartacus (script by
Dalton Trumbo)
Gladiator
King of Kings
Demetrius & the Gladiators
The Robe
Greatest Story Ever Told

To Kill a Mockingbird
Requiem for a Heavyweight
(script by Rod Serling)
Captains Courageous
Citizen Kane (Orson Wells)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Lonely are the Brave
(script by Dalton Trumbo)
Manchurian Candidate (1962)

It's a Gift (WC Fields)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
It's a Wonderful Life
Sons of the Desert
(Laurel & Hardy's best feature)
Nearly all "Laurel & Hardy" shorts
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
The Bank Dick (WC Fields)
Topper
A Day at the Races
Raising Arizona

King Kong (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Portrait of Dorian Grey
Bride of Frankenstein
The Others

Spellbound;
Vertigo;
North by Northwest;
Rope;
Strangers on a Train;
Suspicion;
To Catch a Thief;
Rear Window;
Notorious;
The Birds;
Jamaica Bay
(all by Hitchcock)
Juliet of the Spirits
8 1/2
(all by Fellini)
Witness for the Prosecution
Shadow of a Doubt

Touch of Evil
(Orson Wells Classic)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Key Largo

Never on a Sunday
South Pacific
Grapes of Wrath
Days of Heaven
Barton Fink
Sunset Boulevard
Kiss Me Deadly
Rebel without a Cause

The Long Hot Summer;
The Glass Menagerie;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof;
Streetcar Named Desire;
Suddenly Last Summer;
(All by Tennessee Williams)

Day the Earth Stood Still (50's)
(Robert Wise)
Mars Attacks
Alien (& Alien Franchise)
Predator
Alien vs Predator
It Came from Outer Space
(in 3-D; script by Ray Bradbury)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Thing (1951 & '82)

7th Voyage of Sinbad;
Jason & the Argonauts;
Mysterious Island;
Earth vs. Flying Saucers;
20 Million Miles to Earth;
It Came From Beneath the Sea
(all by Ray Harryhausen)
Beast of 20,000 Fathoms
(Ray Harryhausen; based upon
short story by Ray Bradbury)
The Time Machine ('53 George Pal)
War of the Worlds ('51 George Pal)
Atlantis the Lost Continent (G. Pal)
Journey to Center of the Earth ('59)

Lost World (1920 silent -
Animated by Willis O'Brian)
Lost World (1961 by Irwin Allen)
Both based upon the story by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Godzilla (BW - 1956)

Signs
The Andromeda Strain
(Michael Crichton)
Star Wars
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Iron Giant
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Incredibles
Bladerunner
The 5th Element

The Hudsucker Proxy
Children of Men
Goldfinger
Spy Game
Road to Perdition
Forest Gump
Amadeus
Emerald Forest
Killing Fields
The Specialist
Last Man Standing
Chariots of Fire
Wreck of the Mary Deere
(Terry Gilliam's) Brazil
& of course...
"12 Monkeys" Inspired by
Chris Marker's "Le Jette"

Television

Turner Classic Movies

And then I'd have to say...

The Twilight Zone (60's)
The Outer Limits (60's)
One Step Beyond (50's)
Checkmate (60's)
Kraft Mystery Theatre (62-64)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse
Ren & Stimpy
Three Stooges
The Shield
Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
Monty Python's Flying Circus