My Favorites

I make lists only occasionally, because I find it difficult to make them as comprehensive and complete as I want. But sometimes making lists helps you to remember all the interesting and wonderful experiences you can have in life. Here are my votes in each category:

Favorite Movies

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Spartacus
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Seventh Seal
• Casablanca
• Jules and Jim
• Saving Private Ryan
• High Noon

Favorite Actors

• Kirk Douglas
• Humphrey Bogart
• Gregory Peck
• Al Pacino
• Christopher Walken

Favorite Actresses

• Greer Garson
• Judy Garland
• Jane Fonda
• Jodie Foster
• Susan Sarandon

Favorite Film Directors

• Orson Welles
• Ingmar Bergman
• Akira Kurosawa
• Eric Rohmer
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Steven Spielberg

Favorite Film Composers

• Miklos Rozsa
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Ennio Morricone
• Maurice Jarre
• Jerome Moross

Favorite TV Shows

• The Avengers
• Secret Agent
• The Man from UNCLE
• Masterpiece Theatre
• Maverick
• Saturday Night Live
• Frank's Place
• Good Times
• Wyatt Earp
• Ivanhoe
• The Twilight Zone
• Roy Rogers
• Rin Tin Tin
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• Burke's Law
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• The Richard Pryor Show
• Sea Hunt
• The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

Favorite Cartoon Characters

• Rocky and Bullwinkle
• The Pink Panther
• Felix the Cat
• Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• Spiderman
• The Hulk

Favorite Sports Teams

• Chicago Bulls
• Boston Celtics
• New York Yankees
• Green Bay Packers

Favorite Baseball Players

• Mickey Mantle
• Willie Mays
• Henry Aaron
• Ken Griffey, Jr.

Favorite Football Players

• Gale Sayers
• Dick Butkus
• Walter Payton
• Barry Sanders
• Bob Hayes
• Paul Warfield
• Jerry Rice

Favorite Hockey Players

• Bobby Hull
• Stan Mikita
• Gordie Howe
• Wayne Gretzky

Favorite Basketball Players

• Michael Jordan
• Wilt Chamberlain
• Sam Jones
• Jerry West
• Larry Byrd
• Julius Erving
• Earl Monroe
• Magic Johnson

Favorite Tennis Players

• Pete Sampras
• Bjorn Borg
• Arthur Ashe
• Boris Becker
• Rod Laver

Favorite Track Athletes

• Sebastian Coe
• John Walker
• Steve Ovett
• Lasse Viren
• Alberto Salazar
• Grete Waitz
• Abebe Bikila
• Frank Shorter
• Peter Snell
• Alberto Juantorena
• David Wottle
• Michael Johnson
• Lee Evans
• Tommie Smith
• Bob Hayes

Favorite Baseball Stadiums

• Wrigley Field
• Fenway Park
• Orioles Park at Camden Yards

Favorite Cities

• London
• Paris
• Boston
• Chicago

Favorite Places

• Trafalgar Square, London
• Piazza Navona, Rome
• Champs-Elysees, Paris
• Harvard Square, Cambridge
• Rush Street, Chicago
• Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
• Teotihuacan, Mexico
• Ocho Rios, Jamaica
• Nags Head, North Carolina
• Broadway, New York City

Favorite Museums

• Metropolitan Museum, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Louvre, Paris
• National Gallery, London

Favorite Paintings

• The Raft of the Medusa - Theodore Gericault
• Guernica - Pablo Picasso
• The Sistine Chapel Ceiling - Michelangelo
• The Last Judgement - Michelangelo
• Ecce Homo - Correggio
• Four Cut Sunflowers - Vincent Van Gogh
• Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? - Paul Gauguin
• Paris, The Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day - Gustave Caillebotte
• Bathers by a River - Henri Matisse
• The Actors - Max Beckmann
• Heat Lightning Eastward - Romare Bearden

Favorite Composers

• Chopin
• Brahms
• Bach

Favorite Symphonies

• Brahms No. 4
• Mahler No. 4
• Beethoven No. 7

Favorite String Quartets

• Schubert - No. 14 in D minor, "Death and the Maiden"
• Tchaikovsky - No. 1 in D major
• Ravel - in F major
• Debussy - in G minor
• Beethoven - No. 10 in E-flat major, "Harp"
• Beethoven - No. 7 in F Major, "Rasoumovsky," Opus 59, No. 1
• Smetana - No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life"
• Dvorak - No. 12 in F major, "American"
• Haydn - No. 62 in C major, "Emperor"

Favorite Rock Bands

• Jethro Tull
• Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Cream
• The Who
• Crosby, Stills, and Nash