Travel, History, Free Speech, Music, Food, Comedy, Basketball, Karaoke, Cigars, Rescue Animals and Pie. (I know pie is food... and I already said food... but pie is so important in my life that it needs to be mentioned separately. You got a problem with that?)
The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, U2, Ray Charles, James McMurtry, Green Day, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, Billie Holiday, The Rolling Stones, Del Amitri, The Who, Randy Newman, Hoagy Carmichael, Aretha Franklin, Smashing Pumpkins, Paul Simon, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits, Badfinger, Eminem, Stevie Wonder, David Ackles, James Taylor, Barenaked Ladies, The Fugees, Louis Armstrong, Tom Jones, Phantom Planet, Marvin Gaye, Lucy Kaplansky, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, The Byrds and Gram Parsons
Movies
On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Blue Velvet, Lost in America, Fargo, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Some Like It Hot, Network, In a Lonely Place, The Graduate, My Life As A Dog, A Hard Day's Night, Brazil, Cisco Pike, Dr. Strangelove, Diner, White Heat, Swingers, His Girl Friday, This is Spinal Tap, Birdy, All That Jazz, Ishtar, Windy City Heat as well as the films of Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorcese, Monty Python, Woody Allen and Christopher Guest.
All in the Family, M*A*S*H, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, The Simpsons, Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour, 24, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Office (both the British and American versions), Get a Life, Arrested Development, The Shield, Rescue Me, Starved, Beggars and Choosers, South Park, Jimmy Kimmel Live, 30 Rock, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, Wondershowzen, Laugh In, Saturday Night Live... and then there's some stuff I really like on the internets. Especially...
Books
What Makes Sammy Run, Concrete Island, Of Mice and Men, Running with Scissors, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Chosen, My Greatest Day in Show Business, Popcorn and anything by Charles Dickens, J.D. Salinger, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, Douglas Adams and David Sedaris.
Heroes
Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Norman Lear, Brandon Tartikoff, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, George Carlin, Elvis Costello, Magic Johnson, Arthur Miller and General William Tecumseh Sherman
About me: Despite being born a Jewish male in Los Angeles, I have somehow managed to carve out a place for myself in the entertainment industry. So believe me, I totally know what Halle Berry meant on Oscar night. My politics lean to the left; my penis curves to the right; and I like people who give it to me straight up the middle. I firmly believe that the best advice I ever received came from my driver's ed. teacher who said, "always turn in the direction of the skid." So what's your story?
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Who I'd like to meet: The guy who invented the snow globe.
A few minutes ago I went to go and log into my Photobucket account and on the homepage, in the whole "videos that may interest you" area I see the BIRD POOP video! I just love that people still think it's real time. heehee.
You internet mogul you. When are you coming back to California for a visit? We miss you.
Please share my heartfelt Pride and Congratulations to my friend Fasano for her Emmy Nomination for casting the Showtime comedy series CALIFORNICATION
Dan, you voted for Chris Rock to receive his first Emmy awards my friend would kiss your ass to get your vote. Or shall I say, cut your Jesse Jackson's off.
George Carlin will live forever in the amazing, angry world that he created. (I ran the spotlight for him in 1973 at a college show - only time I ever saw him in person).
