Phil's List of Favorites

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    My Favorite Non-Animated Movies/Mini-Series

    1. (tie) Sargent York (1942, Gary Cooper & Walter Brennan), Raiders of the Lost Ark
    2. Band of Brothers
    3. Casablanca
    4. Apollo 13
    5. Saving Private Ryan
    6. Babe
    7. Witness
    8. The Natural
    9. Three Days of the Condor
    10. Lethal Weapon I
    11. First Blood
    12. Ghostbusters
    13. The Terminator (I and II)
    14. October Sky
    15. Gladiator
    16. Jungle Book
    17. Men in Black
    18. Jurassic Park
    19. Home Alone
    20. Strictly Ballroom
    21. Ben Hur
    22. Stagecoach (John Wayne version but the other one is great also)
    23. Paint Your Wagon
    24. True Lies
    25. Silence of the Lambs
    26. Shawshank Redemption
    27. The Fugitive
    28. From Russia With Love
    29. Sound of Music
    30. Rumble in the Bronx
    31. Star Wars Movies
    32. The Producers
    33. Dave

    Favorite Animated or Partly Animated Movies

    1. Snow White is #1 (Most others are tied for #2)
    2. Mary Poppins
    3. Toy Story I & II
    4. A Bug's Life
    5. Monsters, Inc.
    6. Finding Nemo
    7. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    8. Most of the rest of the Disney full length animated movies
    9. Wallace and Gromit Movies - (especially: The Wrong Trousers)
    10. Veggie Tales

    Favorite Actors:

    1. Gary Cooper
    2. Harrison Ford
    3. Mel Gibson
    4. Walter Brennan
    5. Robert Redford
    6. Jennifer Garner
    7. Sigourney Weaver
    8. Sean Connery
    9. Clint Eastwood
    10. Dennis Franz
    11. Jamie Lee Curtis
    12. James Garner
    13. Arnold Schwarzenegger
    14. Jackie Chan
    15. Sandra Bullock

    Favorite Comedians:

    1. Bill Cosby
    2. Jay Leno
    3. David Letterman

    Favorite Places:

    1. Yosemite
    2. Glacier National Park
    3. The Sierra Nevadas
    4. The Grand Canyon
    5. Disneyland
    6. San Gorgonio Wilderness
    7. Joshua Tree National Park
    8. Philmont Scout Ranch (New Mexico)
    9. Any bookstore with an attached coffee house

    Favorite Americans (inspirational or ahead of their time)

    1. Booker T. Washington
    2. George Washington
    3. Abraham Lincoln
    4. Robert Welch
    5. E.V. Hill
    6. Alan Keyes
    7. Billy Graham
    8. James Dobson

    Favorite Books & Authors

    1. Holy Bible
    2. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
    3. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
    4. Eye of the Needle
    5. Day of the Jackal
    6. Robert Ludlum Novels
    7. Patricia Cornwall Novels
    8. Stephen Covey's books (First Things First)
    9. Chuck Swindoll
    10. Ian Fleming
    11. C.S. Forester
    12. Isaac Asimov (science fiction only)

    Places I would like to visit

    1. Jerusalem/Holy Land
    2. Turkey
    3. England
    4. Holland (specifically WWII sites near Nijmegen)
    5. Germany
    6. The Amazon River
    7. Himalayas
    8. Alaska
    9. The Great Barrier Reef
    10. Carlsbad Caverns

    Favorite Musicians, Vocalists and Musical Groups

    1. Doors
    2. Moody Blues
    3. James Taylor
    4. Neil Young
    5. Neil Diamond
    6. Beatles
    7. Rolling Stones
    8. Beach Boys
    9. Mommas and the Papas
    10. Rod Miller - Ragtime Piano (Disneyland)