City: Orlando
Hometown: Orlando

Interests and Hobbies: Operas, Operettas, Musicals, Foreign Languages (I'm a couple of languages short of becoming a polyglot), Archeology, Skepticism, G.B. Shaw(isms), Astronomy, Prestidigitation, Mentalism, Reading (duh!), Knitting, Tennis, Cross-stitching, Calligraphy, Science Fiction.
Movies and Shows: My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, The Americanization of Emily, Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, Lovely to Look At, Mary Poppins, Toast of New Orleans, That Midnight Kiss, The Great Caruso, One Night of Love, The Great Waltz, The Great Ziegfeld, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Spring Parade, Die Csardasfurstin, The Women, Inherit the Wind, Something in the Wind, Three Smart Girls, Can't Help Singing, One Hundred Men and A Girl, Mad About Music, Pygmalion...
Music: Operetta (Strauss, Lehar, Millöcker, Gilbert&Sullivan, Kalman, Stolz), Opera (Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini), Broadway and Movie Musicals--pre70s, Zarzuela, Kundiman, Swing, Jazz
Books: Foucault's Pendulum, Fahrenheit 451, Die Blechtrommel, Atlas Shrugged, Brothers Karamazov, Pride and Prejudice, Random Harvest, most of Crichton's novels, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Madame Bovary, The Grapes of Wrath, The Turn of the Screw, Lord of the Flies, Magic Mountain, La Morte d'Arthur, Once and Future King, The Prince, Doctor Faustus, The God Delusion, Wild Swans, The Second Sex, The Age of Reason, Power of Myth, Letter to a Christian Nation, The End of Faith, Reason Driven Life, The Golden Compass, The Blind Watchmaker, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, A Clockwork Orange, Candide, Slaughterhouse Five, Jane Eyre