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Location: Lake St. Louis, Missouri United States
In My Own Words:
Hello. I was born and have lived my entire life in the St. Louis, MO area. Four years in the Navy included a tour on the U.S.S. Enterprise during the Viet Nam War. At the vanguard of the baby boom generation, I took an early retirement from a large aircraft defense contractor at age 53. I am possessed of a fascination and life-long passion for all things aviation. These days, I can be usually … Read moreHello. I was born and have lived my entire life in the St. Louis, MO area. Four years in the Navy included a tour on the U.S.S. Enterprise during the Viet Nam War. At the vanguard of the baby boom generation, I took an early retirement from a large aircraft defense contractor at age 53.
I am possessed of a fascination and life-long passion for all things aviation. These days, I can be usually found flying or tinkering with one of two high performance (Van's RV series kits) sportplanes I constructed over the past 8 years. Words simply cannot convey the incredible feeling of lifting from the ground and soaring along at 200 MPH on wings fashioned from one's own hand.
My extensive VHS and DVD collection tends to favor vintage and classic films with no particular emphasis on type. Paul Newman likely represents the single actor most commonly cast in my favorite movies.
My favorite film(s)of all time are "Godfather I and II". I simply cannot regard the films as two separate pieces, but rather as a seamless work. My passions include virtually anything that can fly, trout fishing, and a good hand-tossed pizza. I am constantly awestruck by the power of virtually instantaneous world-wide communications and am convinced the development of the Internet, and technologies such as GPS and Google Earth are as profound as any invention(s) ever devised. As a result, unfolding worldwide news developments and events have (thankfully) become much more difficult for any one entity to censure or manipulate. Since I am an inveterate news junkie, I'm not sure its a good thing I can constantly monitor world events which as we speak are unfolding at a breathtaking rate.
Sometimes, it is much better to mentally "declutter" and reserve time to simply pop in a tape or DVD, kick back and be momentarily diverted by the humorous, the exciting, the sublime, the outrageous, or the profound.
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I never watched "The West Wing" when it aired on broadcast TV simply because I wanted to enjoy the show from season one, and more importantly....in ORDER. Each of first season's 22 episodes are only 42 minutes commercial free minutes long and not one dog in the bunch! This show defines creative writing at its finest. It matters not what political persuasion you happen to be to enjoy this show for what it is, but for dramatic purposes the show's writers naturally had to pick a political party and run with it. So, like the proverbial coin toss, "The West Wing" happens to depict a fictional Democratic administration. Thanks to excellence in writing and acting, you may even… Read more
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I'm lost......translation puhleez!, Feb 8 2004
Frankly, I don't get what all the buzz is about. Going into it, I suspected there would not be any gratuitous physical relationship between the main characters defined by an older Bill Murray and a far, far younger Scarlett Johannson simply because the notion would prove outrageous even by today's cultural standards. As movie craft, the only continuity in this film is established in the beginning when Bill Murray arrives in Tokyo for a brief acting gig and at the end of the film when he prepares for his departure. If every other scene filmed were represented as a playing card, any film editor in the world could reshuffle the deck, turn the cards over and come up with the same random film… Read more
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The elements of this simple and sometimes predictable story can easily be found in any well written and dog-earred romance novel. But that's okay by me because I'm a sucker for a good romantic story, as long as I can see it take life on the silver screen and not be read from a paperback. In this exceptional case we find a story written from a obviously female point of view and it comes alive and is gloriously embraced by the warmth of the bright Tuscan sun. Painfully divorced Francis (Diane Lane) in seeking a new beginning for a shattered personal life impulsively purchases a run down villa in Tuscany. Her motivation is equal parts diversion, fantasy, and hope. She is a sophisticated… Read more
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