Sharptongued, 62

film history - delving into film noir at the moment. went through phases with chaplin, keaton, harold lloyd, frank capra, howard hawks, john ford, cecille b demille, and jacques tourneur. thinking about pursuing hammer horror.

musical theater history - gilbert and sullivan, kern/wodehouse/bolton princess shows, rodgers and hart, gus kahn/walter donaldson, cole porter, the gershwins, rodgers and hammerstein, leonard bernstein, stephen sondheim, steven schwartz.

for civil war reading, i went through biographies of the northern generals since the southern generals seemed more popular.

every few years, i try to view the "i, claudius" miniseries.

viewed a series of mini-documentaries on the history of the roman emperors.

i enjoy art history as well and have viewed many of the waldemar janusczcak documentaries on the renaissance, impressionism, van gogh.