 My favorite diaries:
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mary profile - diary |
| comments: An honest South African editor writes acidly of changes in her country |
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anenigma profile - diary |
| comments: A Florida waitress with saucy tongue tells of work, hubby, coffee andkids |
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globetwatter profile - diary |
| comments: A Californian heads out alone for Australia and Africa with loud chutzpah |
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travelling lady profile - diary |
| comments: A Canadian, well-spoken, lives and works in Bucharest, Romania |
My favorite music: |
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RONNY |
| comments: German folksinger, guitar player, top seller amongst the oompahpah crowd |
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Dermot O'Brien |
| comments: Accordion player/tenor singer from Ireland, popular in the 1960's. |
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Xavier Cugat |
| comments: Cuban-born Latin music orchestra leader, very big in 1940's-50's. |
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Eduardo Viannelli |
| comments: Venetian (Italian) singer, 1960's, catchy melodies sung with macho punch |
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Guy Lomardo |
| comments: Canadian of Italian descent, smooth jazzy 1930's singing and orchestral music |
My favorite movies: |
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My Life as a Dog |
| comments: Swedish, comedy/tragedy, sentimental yet realistic about a 1950's boy left to stay with country uncle |
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Lacemaker |
| comments: French, with Isabelle Huppert as simple smalltown girl destroyed by intellectual Parisian boyfriend |
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Sound of Music |
| comments: American, marvelously schmalzy and cheerful sing-along, heartwarming, gorgeous scenery, seven singing kids! |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| comments: Danish, filmed in Copenhagen and Greenland, about half-Eskimo misfit unravelling major technical under-the-ice nightmare |
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Red Balloon |
| comments: French, 1950's film of small boy's relationship with a floating balloon as he walks or rides buses through Paris alone |
My favorite authors: |
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John Christopher |
| comments: Keenly intelligent, farsighted British writer of catastrophe-fiction, for children and adults |
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Maeve Binchy |
| comments: Irish writer of brilliant emotional analysis of characters, motivation, interlocking personalities |
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Michael Crichton |
| comments: Medical thriller mass-production fiction writer, excellent research, fast-moving, exciting plots, surprising resolutions |
