Because my reach exceeds my grasp and I have a rich fantasy life. Every chair in the house has a stack of books, cozy blanket and reading glasses adjacent. An eccentric list of things driven as much by an urge
towards cultural & not-really-cultural literacy and, only incidentally, quality in no particular order.
MOVIES
A New Leaf
The Stunt Man
Love Story
A Face in the Crowd
Local Hero
Any Nichols and May
Sandlot
Get Shorty
TELEVISION
SCTV
Original Newhart show
Mary Tyler Moore
Action
My Mother the Car (only one)
Car 54
BOOKS
From Ciao Domenica on June 25, 2013:
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Merry Hall, Down The Garden Path and other books by Beverley Nichols
Mapp and Lucia series of novels by E.F. Benson
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles