Muscials ...

Singing In The Rain
Cabaret*
The Rocky Horror Picture Show*

and you already know The Sound of Music!

Check out My Fair Lady as well ...

The Blues Brothers

Watching it now it's still so good - and such giants of music

Cab Calloway
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
John Lee Hooker

not to mention the blues musicians (even if some of them can't act!)
as well as Dan Akroyd and John Belushi ... and guests from John Candy and Carrie Fisher and even Twiggy.

Psst - how much for the little girl...

You will know these quotes

It's 106 miles to Chicago...
Space is big, really big...
Do you get wafers with it?
No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen."

The Blues is Nothing - the Blues is Everything

Music is cool - rock is cool jazz, soul and classical, is coold, even tacky pop music can be cool, the blues is icey.

Too many great bands and artists to list here.

More GREAT Movies - classics

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dogma* (Rude!)

A Matter of Life and Death (and other Powell and Pressburger films)

Ice Cold in Alex
Bridge on the River Kwai

People whose work you should check out

Actors
Alec Guiness
Clark Gable
Katharine Hepburn (Mollie is named after her...)
Cary Grant


Comics -
Chris Rock
Robin Williams
Steve Martin - esp his early work

TV
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Rising Damp
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Goodies

Films
This is Spinal Tap
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Life of Brian
The Producers
Hairspray

Producers
Terry Gilliam
Mel Brooks

Worth Watching - Cop Shows

Hill Street Blues - dated now but warm, engaging and funny while covering some hard storylines that transcended individual episodes. Great cast as well, and the show is a child of the talendted Stephen Bochco - who cut his teeth on the also excellent Columbo (even older!).

He's written at least one novel set in LA and involving showbiz writers - (great fun!)

Harder Edged Cop Shows - from the 90's Homicide: Life on the Street- and in the 00's try The Wire (I have seen series 1and 2 and it's great stuff)

Family Guy

Heh heh heh!

Rather adult in places - but very funny! Worth Watching!

Thank you Seth MacFarlane

Firesign Threatre

You love the ******* humour of Douglas Adams and Bleak Expectations - (******** - words like zany, left field are just not enough)

The Firesign Theatre are a little more ... what?

Crazy...
Experimental...
Drug influenced (in places)

Check out Mark Thomas's radio introduction/celebration or classic albums like Waiting for the Electrician (or Someone Like Him) - that was my introduction (thank you N ewt!!)

(Don't forget the elevator boy ...)

Robert Heinlein

Especially the Moon is a Harsh Mistress

I love the story, and the concepts of a computer that "wakes up". The development of the revolution and the various involvements of the characters drew me into their backgrounds.

Wonderful quotes:
Bog Is a computer one of your creatures
Then he did die
We can throw rocks


Some may find it right wing - I always thought it was rather anarchistic - I think if you want to
label the politics it is closest to libertarian socialism.

Various of his other works are also cult classics - Stranger in a Strange Land etc

Mamas and the Papas

Such beautiful singing and great songs - try as well as California Dreaming with the stereo set to ful left or right to hear the male and female parts separately.

I also love Monday Monday and Creeque Alley.

Monday Monday always seemed to me to represent someone who lost a loved one in some way on a Monday - but I saw John Phillips interviewed saying he never knew what it was about.

Creeque Alley makes me cry - god knows why!