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Books

Currently reading
A book on WWII that my kids gave me for Father’s Day.

Some favorite books
Beowulf; The Divine Comedy; The Canterbury Tales; The Tempest; A Christmas Carol; Don Quixote; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Aesop’s Fables; Winnie the Pooh.

Some favorite authors
Hans Christian Andersen, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, O. Henry, Washington Irving, C.S. Lewis, David McCullough, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, William Shakespeare, Malcolm Muggeridge, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and many, many more.

And the Bible.

Heroes

Sports
Roberto Clemente

Movies
Frank Capra

Inventors
Thomas Edison

Christians
The first . . . Jesus Christ
Keith Green
D.L. Moody

Movies

Actors
Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, William Powell, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Tom Hanks, Judi Dench, Gwyneth Paltrow.

Directors
Charlie Chaplin | Frank Capra | Billy Wilder | Alfred Hitchcock | Milos Forman | Sydney Pollack.

Movies
Harvey, the Thin Man series, It’s A Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, Fantasia, Casablanca, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Chariots of Fire, The Godfather trilogy, Amadeus, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, The Sting, Trip to Bountiful, The Natural, Indiana Jones (1 & 3), The Hunt for Red October, The Truman Show, Memento, Big, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Sky High, Shakespeare in Love, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, The Princess Bride, Emperor’s New Clothes, Sixth Sense, The Five Heartbeats, Millions, Newsies, Enigma, Good Night & Good Luck, Ladies in Lavender.

Screenwriters
Julius Epstein & Philip Epstein | Horton Foote | William Goldman | David S. Ward.

Music

Male
Paul Simon, Neil Young, Keith Green, Van Morrison, Jessy Dixon, Rich Mullins, Matthew West, Bob Dylan, Robin Mark, Al Green, Chuck Girard, Donnie McClurkin

Female
Dido, Norah Jones, Edie Brickell, Nicole C. Mullen, Jennifer Knapp, Jewel, Eva Cassidy, Maria Muldaur, Carole King, Joni Mitchell

Groups
Jars of Clay, Phillips, Craig & Dean, MercyMe, Selah, The Wallflowers, Counting Crows, Wilson Phillips

Genres
Black Gospel, Contemporary Christian

Television

Alias Smith & Jones (There’s one thing we got to get Hayes.)
Columbo (One more thing….)
Combat! (White Rook, this is Checkmate King Two. Over.)
Frasier (I’m listening.)
Monk (Wipe! Wipe!)
numb3rs (We all use numbers, every day.)
Remington Steele (Try this for a deep, dark secret.)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (Oh, Rob…)