Favorite Plays: "1776" by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams, "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Fiddler on the Roof" by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick, "The Elephant Man" by Bernard Pomerance, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, "Les Miserables" by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and Victor Hugo, "My Fair Lady" by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, "Othello" by William Shakespeare, "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, "The Pirates of Penzance" by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, "Same Time, Next Year" by Bernard Slade, "Swimming to Cambodia" by Spalding Gray, "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht, "The Trojan Women" by Euripides, "West Side Story" by Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Lenard Bernstein.
Favorite Poets: Yehuda Amichai, William Blake, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, William Carlos Williams, James Wright.
Favorite TV Shows: "Frontline," "Twilight Zone ," "Northern Exposure," "Our World," "Star Trek: the Next Generation," "TV Nation," "Upstairs, Downstairs," "The West Wing," "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
Favorite Movies: "Alice's Restaurant," "All About My Mother," "Amadeus," "American History X," "Amistad," "Back to the Future," "Bob Roberts," "Born on the 4th of July," "Bowling for Columbine," "Carol's Journey," "The Chosen," "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Dead Poets Society," "Deterrence," "The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Gandhi," "Good Morning Vietnam," "Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tollerance after the Holocaust," "In Country," "Inherit the Wind," "JFK," "Jungle Fever," "Life Is Beautiful," "Lisa Picard Is Famous," "Melvin Goes to Dinner," "Natural Born Killers," "Noises Off," "Il Postino," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Reality Bites," "Romeo and Juliet," "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," "Schindler's List," "1776," "Somewhere in Time," "Spartacus," "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," "Super Size Me," "The Ten Commandments," "Thirteen Days," "Three Kings," "Wall Street."
Favorite Musical Artists: Black 47, Dave Matthews Band, The Doors, Jewel, Billy Joel, Mansion Maze, Moody Blues, Nirvana, REM.
Favorite Visual Artists: Judith Chisdes, M.C. Escher, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh.
Favorite Foods: pasta (especially linguini with pesto sauce), roast chicken with stuffing, anything Chinese (especially Moo Shu Pork, Peking Duck, Yat Gat Mein soup, & Young Chow Fried Rice), sausage pizza, mint-chocolate-chip ice cream.
Favorite historical time periods: Ancient Rome, American Civil War, 1960s, 24th Century.
Favorite Heroes: Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Abbie Hoffman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, H. L. Mencken, Jean-Luc Picard, Yitzhak Rabin, Anwar Sadat, Oliver Stone, Henry David Thoreau.
Favorite U.S. Presidents: Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Carter.
Favorite Teachers: Adler, Bell, Bonjione, Brown, Gravett, Heath, McKinney, Papay, Wettstein.