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1. What’s the one movie you’ve seen more times than any other?
It is probably a three way toss up between Casablanca, It’s A Wonderful Life or Creator. Casablanca is a great basic story, with a small, tightly constructive narrative and casting that is magic. They don’t make films like this anymore. It’s A Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition and I do a pretty entertaining Jimmy Stewart impression. Creator is the odd ball in the list but in my Army and college years I was smitten by this film. I think it is the super cool Peter O’Toole, but I can’t put my finger on it.
2. If you could turn one book, comic book or other print story into a feature-length movie, what story would you pick and why?
I am sure I have finished a book before and said to myself, this would make a great movie. I know I said that about Mosquito Coast and guess what, the movie wasn’t so good. I think though that in the right hands Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie would be a very entertaining film.
3. Whom would you cast?
I always seem to have a Jeremy Irons like character in my head whenever I read Rushdie. It must be the deep, vedy, vedy, English accent.
4. What one movie would you like to see “updated for the year 2005”? (Ie, a remake)
This is always troubling because so many remakes are ruined by the current Hollywood focus group process. Endings are changed, story lines changed. But maybe something light, like an old John Wayne Western, redone with Hollywood hunks and starlets might be fun. And nothing sacred really, has been damaged.
5. What one movie are you most looking forward to this year?
Star Wars Episode Three (If it lives up to just a little bit of the hype) And The Da Vinci Code (It could be the next Indiana Jones)

1. Cholula? Tobasco? Tapatio? Bruce’s? What is your favorite hot sauce and what do you like it served with?
I am a big fan of Cholula on eggs and I like Surachi sauce on french fries, tater tots and Pat’s PhillyCheese sangiunich.

2. Friends is over. ER is getting lame. Reality TV plagues the airwaves. What do you now consider “Must See TV?”
The West Wing and Sunday night on HBO is my Must See Capsule. I also stumble over to TRIO a lot, a cable network of some of the oddest most random television. I try to catch their “Brilliant But Cancelled” series where the play older television series that only had a season or less of a run.

3. If you could be a ringer in the White House press room, what SOFTBALL question would you throw to White House Press Secretary Scott Mclellan.
“Scott,
We all know the president is amazing in every respect, but can you tell the American public just how amazing he really is?”

4. You know “they” are watching you. They watch at work, they watch you in traffic. They see you at the store. What is it they recently saw that has embarrassed you the most.
I was picking my nose at a red light while driving to work the other day and so totally got caught by a little kid in the car next to mine. He was shouting and pointing. Not really the proudest moment.

5. In light of, or rather, in honor of Teri and Michael S, of Pinellas Park, Fl, take a moment and craft a light haiku. (remember,
the format is 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.)

No tube in her nose
No longer with us she is gone
Back to porn we go.

1. What’s your favorite sport (to watch or participate in)? How often do you have a ritual you participate in as you play it/watch it?
I watch a few sports on television but I am not would you would describe as a sports fan. Back in the day (last year) I watched hockey a lot. I usually watch the Bronco game each week during football season. With the dearth of hockey, I am looking for something to focus my interest – maybe baseball. Maybe tennis. Maybe curling.

2. Do you feel that your favorite sport has a lot of negative influences on yourself or others?
Hockey has a lot of aggression and violence. I suppose in a super-protective parent land, that can be a negative influence. But hockey wouldn’t be hockey with out a nice brawl by the boards and some blood spilled on the ice. Take away all of that and its simple team ice dancing and how gay is that?

3. As a kid, did you have a sport/athlete idol?
I followed the Olympics one summer as a kid and developed a hero like admiration for Bruce Jenner. He was so cool at the time. He is pretty lame know, but when I was 9 or 10, he was the shit.

4. Which “extreme” sport would you like to try (or would have already tried) if you weren’t afraid of doing it?
Shark week on Discovery just wrapped up. Swimming with the sharks would be cool, but I will save that for my sister. When I hear the term Extreme Sports, I think of speed and snow so I guess some kind of deep powder, back country, avalanche prone downhill danger skiing would be in order.

5. Are you caught up in “March Madness” (i.e., the NCAA basketball tournament)? Are you a basketball fan? Who will win
I have caught a few games so far and I must admit, college basketball is much more exciting than pro ball. Less thugs, less ego and instead replaced with a real love of the game. I don’t have a clue who will win but will still probably settle in and watch a game or two over the next few weekends.