Editor's Pages
Michelle E. Malik
Age: 33
Sign: Libra with Scorpio Moon and Capricorn Rising
Pedigree: Egyptian, Czech, French, Irish
Location: Somewhere in LA
Hair Color: brown, now with blonde highlights
Eye Color: blue
Other Favorable Pages:
Amateur Photography Pictures Memoriam Pages
Quotables Eddie Cantor Al Jolson
Hobbies/Involvements
Singing, writing poetry and stories, reviewing local shows and plays, walks , going to the gym, dancing, collecting nostalgic memorabilia and tins, going to concerts, particularly at outdoor venues like the Greek Theater or the Hollywood Bowl, digital photography, Eucharistic Ministry at St. Cyril's Church, working on websites, especially my own, going to movies (new and old), hunting for bargains, getting my masters degree in screenwriting at CSUN, and last but not least, running the Eddie Cantor Appreciation Society.
Some of my Favorites
(inclined to frequently change or be added to):
Musicians/Singers
The Standards: Robert Clary, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor*, Nick Lucas, Billy Murray, Helen Kane, Sophie Tucker, Nancy Wilson, Billie Holiday, Rosemary Clooney, Annette Hanshaw, The Boswell Sisters, The Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy, Keely Smith, to name a few. I listen to the Fabulous 690AM in Los Angeles that occasionally features some of these greats.
Favorite Classic Songwriters: Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart
Newer: Beastie Boys (Their To the 5 Boroughs CD is amazing), Tori Amos, Norah Jones, Beck, Modest Mouse, The Cure, No Doubt, Mazzy Star, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Holly Cole, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Grateful Dead, Harry Connick Jr., The Doors, TLC, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, most 80s alternative and many more. I'm a music junky!
Classic Films
Funny Girl, Singin' In the Rain, Double Indemnity, Dinner at Eight, On the Waterfront, Force of Evil, Duck Soup, Casablanca, The Thin Man, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Godfather, Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, The Kid, Sunrise, Sunset Boulevard, Body and Soul, Adam's Rib, Meet John Doe, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (The list could go on forever).
More Recent Films
LA Confidential, LA Story, The Color Purple, In the Name of the Father, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Waiting to Exhale, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Sabrina (both versions), Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Chaplin, Three Amigos, Breakfast Club, Radio Days, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Everyone Says I Love You, Small Time Crooks, Pearl Harbor, Hurlyburly, Rushmore, Amelie, Chicago, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Cold Mountain, House of Sand and Fog, Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban
Actresses of Today
Emily Watson, Susan Sarandon, Emma Thompson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Winona Ryder, and Renee Zellweger (particularly in Chicago and Cold Mountain).
Classic Actresses
Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Janet Gaynor, Claudette Colbert, Jean Arthur, Myrna Loy.
Actors of Today
Jude Law, Daniel Day-Lewis, Stellan Skarsgard, Michael Caine, Jeff Bridges, Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Ben Kingsley, James Franco, Alan Cumming, Hayden Christiansen, Morgan Freeman, Gene Wilder, Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, David Duchovny
Classic Actors/Performers
Spencer Tracy, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Edward Arnold, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell, Fred Astaire, The Nicholas Bros.
Favorite Comedians/Comic Personalities
Eddie Cantor, Billy Crystal, Ellen Degeneres, Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Bros., Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, Jack Black
Favorite Writers and Poets
Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Shakespeare.
Favorite TV Shows, New and Old
Twilight Zone, Sex And The City, A&E Biography, The 80s tribute shows on VH1, Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan, Medium, Freaks and Geeks, 60 Minutes, Celebrity Mole, reruns of Golden Girls and In Living Color, I Love Lucy, American Justice and Cold Case Files.