trishfromtisch Professional member

Interests and Activities

Producing (especially creative producing for television) and screenwriting.

Favorite Movies

Best Use of the Power of Film: Invisible Children (watch it. Let me know if you want to borrow the DVD), Most Important Movie: Hotel Rwanda, Best Movie: Amadeus, Favourite Movie: Gladiator, Movie That Elicits the Most Emotion: The Passion, Best War Movie: Glory, Best Rom-Com: Sabrina (50s and 90s), Best Comedy: The Burbs, Best Children's Adventure Movie: Hook (followed by Harry Potter 3), Best Take on a Classic Story: Peter Pan (2004), Best Musical: Fiddler on the Roof, Best Epic Fantasy: LOTR, Best Underdog Movie: Rocky 2, Best Classic Adventure Movies: The Mummy and Zorro, Best Comedy of Errors: Oscar, Best "Believe" Movie: Rudy, Best Take on Romeo and Juliet of All Time: West Side Story, Best Fantasy Adventure: Star Wars 2-6, Best Indie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite, Best Documetary Ever: Imelda, Best Random-Humour Comedy: Josie & the Pussycats, Best Superhero Movie: Spiderman, Best Popcorn Flick: Sahara, Best Nautical Adventure Movie: Master and Commander, Best Teen Movie: Mean Girls. also some classics, period pieces, the few deserving Oscar winners, spoofs

Favorite TV Shows

The Cosby Show, Star Trek NG and Voyager (geek!), The Avengers, F1, Smallville (Seasons1-3), stand up comedy, the Simpsons, history documentaries, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Soup, Law & Order: SVU, Man vs. Wild

Favorite Books

Historical fiction, history, adventure, classics, humour, biographies (especially of saints), My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson, Everlost by Neal Shusterman, C.S. Forester's Hornblower Saga, E.W. Hornung's Raffles Series, Watership Down, Lord of the Flies, the Bible, Agatha Christie's works, Red Hugh, Peter Pan, Harry Potter (except books 4&5), Don Camillo, Tennessee Williams's essays, Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain's insanely clever quotes

Favorite Talent

writing

Favorite Quotes

"If not me, who? If not now, when?" -- traditional Hebrew adage

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something." --Edwin Hale

"If you have to crawl to live, stand and die."-- Greek Proverb

"Youth was not made for pleasure, but for heroism." -- Paul Claudel

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Not all who wander are lost." --JRR Tolkien

"Is that a purse or housing for a family of four?" --A Side Order of Life