User:DO'Neil/Favourites

None of these are in any particular order.

Films

• Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
• Kundun (1997)
• Gorky Park¹ (1983)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• All the Star Wars films (1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002)
• Testimony (1987)

Books

• Shogun by James Clavell
• Taipan by James Clavell
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Caribbean by James A. Michener
• Foxbat by Peter Cave¹.
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy²

Plays

• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Richard III by William Shakespeare³

Songs

• "Englishman in New York" by Sting
• "They Dance Alone" by Sting
• "Russians" by Sting
• "Je T'Emmène Au Vent" by Louis Attaque
• "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" by The Clash
• "Indian Sunset" by Elton John†
• "We are the Red Cavalry" by the Red Army Choir
• "Leningrad Symphony" by Dmitri Shostakovich
• "1812 Overture" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner
• "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg
• "La Rue" by Francis Lemarque°
• "Chan Chan" by the Buena Vista Social Club
• "Iron Lion Zion" by Bob Marley
• "Exodus" by Bob Marley

Footnotes

¹Ah, my guilty secret. I love trashy, obscure Cold War novels and movies.

²This is about the only Clancy book I actually liked. I've never found the thought of being locked inside a metal box underwater too appealing, so I didn't like Hunt for Red October. Speaking of not liking Tom Clancy, Mikhail Gorbachev was the worst thing ever to happen to his career. Everything he's written post-glasnost has been terrible, IMHO.

³<Comic Book Guy> Best.villain.ever. </Comic Book Guy>

†I always cry, err, get something in my eye, when I hear this one. Stupid pansy brain.

°Fear the accordion.