Thursday, July 2, 2009


To my fellow OFWs - Become an informed traveler. Please visit my website at http://ofwwebguide.webs.com/.

As your work takes you around the globe, you become refined, sophisticated and wise to the ways of the world.

By assimilating into the culture(s) of your new found home, you gain insights into their lifestyle, thereby enriching yours.

Anywhere you go, whatever you may have accomplished, you will always be a Pilipino. Be proud of your heritage.

M A B U H A Y !

INTRODUCTION

Welcome and Mabuhay!

I had lived in the city of Los Angeles, California, USA, mainly in the Hollywood and West Hollywood communities for 17 years. During this time, I worked as an independent contractor in the medical-legal industry, in both applicant and defense claims.

In the pursuit of my own bliss, I followed my heart and my creative self. I have completed my credit-training in the Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts at UCLA.

With my personal experience and insights, I would like to share with you some of the things I have learned along the way.

I hope you find the information in my website useful in your travel plans, whether it is for work or pleasure. Have a safe, pleasurable and productive journey!

Remember that anywhere you go and whatever changes you go through, nothing will change the fact that you will always be a PILIPINO!

Be PROUD!

My name is Soraya.

Thank you very much for visiting my website.

PROFILE

I am a story teller...

INTERESTS : writing, photography, films, paintings, sculptures, museums, reading books - film, cinematography, photography, art history, comparative religion, psychoanalysis, architecture, costume design, cooking, swimming ;

FAVORITE MUSIC : rhythm and blues, hiphop, reggae, opera, afro-celtic music, jazz, new age, classic rock. Instrumental: flute, violin, piano, African drums ;

FAVORITE MUSIC ARTISTS :
* Rhythm and Blues : May J. Blige, Anita Baker, Lisa Fischer, Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross ;Michael Jackson, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper ;
* Reggae : Bob Marley ;
* Classicial : Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Yanni ;
* Spanish : Jose Angel Hevia ;
* Classic Rock : Tina Turner, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Carlos Santana ;

FAVORITE COMEDIANS :
* American : Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Joseph "Buster" Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Eddie Murphy, Keenan Winan, Kim Carrey ;
* British: Charlie Chaplin ;
* French : Marcel Marceau ;

FAVORITE ACTORS :
* American : Wallace Reid, D. W. Griffith, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Otis Skinner, Johnny Arthur, Gary Cooper, Jack Oakie, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, William Holden, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Marlon Brando, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston ;
* Australian : Errol Flynn ;
* British : Boris Karloff, Claude Rains, Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney, Laurence Olivier, RexHarrison, Cary Grant, Richard Burton ; * James Mason
* Cuban : Cesar Romero ;
* Egyptian : Omar Sharif ;
* French : Charles Boyer, Yves Montand ;
* Hungarian : Béla Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Johnny Weissmuller ;

FAVORITE ACTRESSES :
* American : Blanche Sweet, Mabel Normand, Helen Gardner, Marin Sais, Norma Talmadge, Pearl White, Lillian Russell, Lillian Gish, Charlotte Burton, Theda Bara, Ethel Barrymore, Edna Purviance, Valeska Surratt, Mae Murray, Billie Burke, Marion Davies, Mary Garden, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Mary Astor, Clara Bow, Fay Wray, Joan Crawford, Janet Gaynor, Barbara Stanwyck, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Ethel Merman, Bette Davis, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Shirley Temple, Lucille Ball, Margaret Hamilton, Frances Drake, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Veronica Lake, * Shirley MacLaine, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn
* British : Peggy Ashcroft, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh, Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, * Judi Dench, Maggie Smith ;
* Canadian : Florence Lawrence, Mary Pickford ;
* Chinese : Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi ;
* Danish : Asta Nielsen;
* French : Sarah Bernhardt, Gaby Deslys, Claudette Colbert, Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Leslie Caron, Anouk Aimée, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Adjani, Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard ;* German : Marlene Dietrich ;
* Italian : Sophia Loren ;* Russian : Alla Nazimova ;
* Swedish : Ingrid Bergman ;

FAVORITE WRITERS :
* British : William Shakespeare, Bram Stoker ;
* French : Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras ;

FILM AUTHORS :
* American : D. W. Griffith, John Cromwell, Cecil B. DeMille, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli ;
* Austrian : Erich von Stroheim, Fred Zinnemann ;
* British : Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean ;
* French : Georges Méliès, Jean Renoir, François Truffaut
* German : Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch ;
* Italian : Frank Capra,

FAVORITE FILMS :

1890s : The Kiss (1896), New Pillow Fight (1897), The Milker's Mishap (1897), The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

1900s : A Trip to the Moon (1902), The Sealed Room (1909)

1910s : The Unchanging Sea (1910), Personal Magnetism (1913), The Flirt and the Bandit (1913), The Greater Love (1913), The Lady Killer (1913), The Mirror (1913), Woman's Honor (1913), Making a Living (1914), A Fool There Was (1915), Burlesque on Carmen (1915), His New Job (1915), Inspiration (1915), The Birth of a Nation (1915), The Cheat (1915), The Tramp (1915), A Daughter of the Gods (1916), Behind the Screen (1916), Intolerance (1916), One A.M. (1916), Where Are My Children? (1916), Camille (1917), Easy Street (1917), Her Right to Live (1917), The Adventurer (1917), The Cure (1917), The Immigrant (1917), A Dog's Life (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918), Moonshine (1918), Out West (1918), The Bell Boy (1918), The Cook (1918), Triple Trouble (1918), A Day's Pleasure (1919), Back Stage (1919), Blind Husbands (1919), Love's Prisoner (1919), Male and Female (1919), Sunnyside (1919), The Delicious Little Devil (1919), The Garage (1919), The Grim Game (1919)

1920s : Convict 13 (1920), Neighbors (1920), One Week (1920), Stolen Moments (1920), Way Down East (1920), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Scarecrow (1920), Brewster's Millions (1921), Fool's Paradise (1921), Forever (1921), Orphans of the Storm (1921), Woman's Place (1921), The Conquering Power (1921), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Haunted House (1921), The Idle Class (1921), The Kid (1921), The Love Light (1921), The Lucky Dog (1921), The Sheik (1921), Camille (1921), Beyond the Rocks (1992), Blood and Sand (1922), Foolish Wives (1922), Phantom (1922), A Woman of Paris (1923), Die Straße (1923), Our Hospitality (1923), Safety Last! (1923), Salomé (1923), Souls for Sale (1923), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Pilgrim (1923), Why Worry? (1923), Girl Shy (1924), Hot Water (1924), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), Secrets (1924), Dante's Inferno (1924), Sherlock, Jr. (1924), The Marriage Circle (1924), The Navigator (1924), Three Weeks (1924), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), Go West (1925), Strike (1925), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Eagle (1925), The Gold Rush (1925), The Merry Widow (1925), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Pleasure Garden (1925), Fool's Luck (1926), La Bohème (1926), The Black Pirate (1926), The Temptress (1926), Don Juan (1926), Flesh and the Devil (1926), Madame Mystery (1926), Sparrows (1926), Son of the Sheik (1926), Torrent (1926), Her Wild Oat (1927), Love (1927), Metropolis (1927), My Best Girl (1927), Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), The General (1927), The Jazz Singer (1927), The Scar of Shame (1927), The Way of All Flesh (1927), Why Girls Love Sailors (1927), A Girl in Every Port (1928), Across to Singapore (1928), Alraune (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), Lights of New York (1928), Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Sadie Thompson (1928), Sex in Chains (1928), Show People (1928), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), Street Angel (1928), The Cameraman (1928), The Crowd (1928), The Circus (1928), The Divine Woman (1928), The Docks of New York (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928), The Mysterious Lady (1928), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Wedding March (1928), The Wind (1928), We Faw Down (1928), West Point (1928), Applause (1929), Big Business (1929), Blackmail (1929), Coquette (1929), Dangerous Curves (1929), Dynamite (1929), Glorifying the American Girl (1929), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Hearts in Dixie (1929), Lucky Star (1929), Madame X (1929), Pandora's Box (1929), Paris (1929), Rio Rita (1929), Say It with Songs (1929), The Awful Truth (1929), The Cock-Eyed World (1929), The Cocoanuts (1929), The Great Gabbo (1929), The Lady Lies (1929), The Love Parade (1929), The Manxman (1929), Their Own Desire (1929), The Trespasser (1929), Un Chien Andalou (1929)

1930s : L'Âge d'or (1930), The Blue Angel (1930), Romance (1930), Monte Carlo (1930), Morocco (1930), Men Without Women (1930), Kismet (1930), Anna Christie (1930), The Vagabond King (1930), The Divorcee (1930), Ladies Love Brutes (1930), Bride of the Regiment (1930), The Big Pond (1930), Liliom (1930), Outward Bound (1930), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Hell's Angels (1930), Animal Crackers (1930), Mata Hari (1931), M (1931), Possessed (1931), Indiscreet (1931), A Free Soul (1931), I Take This Woman (1931), This Modern Age (1931), Platinum Blonde (1931), The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Night Nurse (1931), M (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), Cimarron (1931), City Lights (1931), Smart Money (1931), Monkey Business (1931), Love Me Tonight (1932), One Hour with You (1932), As You Desire Me (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), Red-Headed Woman (1932), Red Dust (1932), Emma (1932), Impatient Maiden (1932), Call Her Savage (1932), Bird of Paradise (1932), Shanghai Express (1932), Back Street (1932), The Beast of the City (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Grand Hotel (1932), Trouble in Paradise (1932), American Madness (1932), Broken Lullaby (1932), The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Pack Up Your Troubles (1932), Movie Crazy (1932), Horse Feathers (1932), Ecstasy (1933), Dancing Lady (1933), Bombshell (1933), Secrets (1933), I'm No Angel (1933), Hold Your Man (1933), Tonight Is Ours (1933), She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Baby Face (1933), Design for Living (1933), Damaged Lives (1933), Morning Glory (1933), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Lady for a Day (1933), Turn Back the Clock (1933), Little Women (1933), Queen Christina (1933), Deluge (1933), Damaged Lives (1933), Lady Killer (1933), Island of Lost Souls (1933), Cavalcade (1933), Our Betters (1933), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Sons of the Desert (1933), The Midnight Patrol (1933), The Scarlet Empress (1934), Cleopatra (1934), The Gay Bride (1934), The Gay Divorcee (1934), The Merry Widow (1934), A Lost Lady (1934), Gambling Lady (1934), The Girl from Missouri (1934), Forsaking All Others (1934), It Happened One Night (1934), One Night of Love (1934), Twentieth Century (1934), Belle of the Nineties (1934), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Cat and the Fiddle (1934), Imitation of Life (1934), The Little Minister (1934), The Thin Man (1934), Bolero (1934), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934), Bright Eyes (1934), Baby Take a Bow (1934), Little Miss Marker (1934), Babes in Toyland (1934), Fashions of 1934 (1934), Peter Ibbetson (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), Dangerous (1935), Mad Love (1935), Reckless (1935), Naughty Marietta (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), Toni (1935), Alice Adams (1935), The Gilded Lily (1935), The 39 Steps (1935), After Office Hours (1935), The Wedding Night (1935), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Top Hat (1935), Roberta (1935), Les Misérables (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), David Copperfield (1935), Dante's Inferno (1935), G Men (1935), The Crusades (1935), The Little Colonel (1935), Curly Top (1935), The Littlest Rebel (1935), A Night at the Opera (1935), Camille (1936), Libeled Lady (1936), Go West, Young Man (1936), Romeo and Juliet (1936), Ceiling Zero (1936), The Petrified Forest (1936), My Man Godfrey (1936), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Intermezzo (1936), San Francisco (1936), Small Town Girl (1936), Anthony Adverse (1936), The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936), After the Thin Man (1936), Mayerling (1936), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Fury (1936), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Dimples (1936), Captain January (1936), Modern Times (1936), The Bohemian Girl (1936), Grand Illusion (1937), Young and Innocent (1937), Nothing Sacred (1937), Damaged Lives (1937), Conquest (1937), Stage Door (1937), You Only Live Once (1937), Saratoga (1937), The Good Earth (1937), The Hurricane (1937), The Awful Truth (1937), Ever Since Eve (1937), A Star Is Born (1937), Stella Dallas (1937), Daughter of Shanghai (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Topper (1937), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Tovarich (1937), Shall We Dance (1937), Heidi (1937), A Day at the Races (1937), Way Out West (1937), Pygmalion (1938), Jezebel (1938), Vivacious Lady (1938), Marie Antoinette (1938), If I Were King (1938), Having Wonderful Time (1938), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Fools for Scandal (1938), Dangerous to Know (1938), The Divorce of Lady X (1938), Test Pilot (1938), The Mad Miss Manton (1938), The Citadel (1938), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Algiers (1938), Suez (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Room Service (1938), Block-Heads (1938), Little Miss Broadway (1938), Just Around the Corner (1938), Gone With The Wind (1939), Love Affair (1939), Midnight (1939), Dark Victory (1939), Intermezzo (1939), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Four Feathers (1939), In Name Only (1939), The Women (1939), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), The Old Maid (1939), Q Planes (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Destry Rides Again (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), Stanley and Livingstone (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Of Mice and Men (1939), Gunga Din (1938), The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), The Little Princess (1939), Babes in Arms (1939)

1940s : Citizen Kane (1941), The Great Lie (1941), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Shanghai Gesture (1941), The Lady Eve (1941), A Woman's Face (1941), Suspicion (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), High Sierra (1941), Adam Had Four Sons (1941), Rage in Heaven (1941), Penny Serenade (1941), Lady Be Good (1941), You Belong to Me (1941), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), Caught in the Draft (1941), The Little Foxes (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941), Hold That Ghost (1941), In the Navy (1941), Target for Tonight (1941), Casablanca (1942), Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), Woman of the Year (1942), The Black Swan (1942), Reunion in France (1942), Random Harvest (1942), Now, Voyager (1942), Arabian Nights (1942), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), Gentleman Jim (1942), Tortilla Flat (1942), Jungle Book (1942), The Spoilers (1942), Johnny Eager (1942), The Great Man's Lady (1942), Across the Pacific (1942), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Kings Row (1942), Tales of Manhattan (1942), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Holiday Inn (1942), Road to Morocco (1942), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Who Done It? (1942), Pardon My Sarong (1942), Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942), Saboteur (1942), Listen to Britain (1942), L'éternel Retour (1943), The Constant Nymph (1943), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The North Star (1943), The Demi-Paradise (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Destination Tokyo (1943), Mr. Lucky (1943), Coney Island (1943), A Guy Named Joe (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), Stage Door Canteen (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Journey into Fear (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), Bataan (1943), Sahara (1943), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Dancing Masters (1943), Hit the Ice (1943), Crazy House (1943), It Ain't Hay (1943), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Frenchman's Creek (1944), Between Two Worlds (1944), Kismet (1944), Passage to Marseille (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), Going My Way (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Jane Eyre (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Gaslight (1944), Double Indemnity (1944), Cover Girl (1944), Laura (1944), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Since You Went Away (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), Casanova Brown (1944), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Lady in the Dark (1944), The Fighting Seabees (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Christmas Holiday (1944), National Velvet (1944), Dragon Seed (1944), The Seventh Cross (1944), Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), The Fighting Sullivans (1944), Lost in a Harem (1944), In Society (1944), Spellbound (1945), The Valley of Decision (1945), Children of Paradise (1945), Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Love Letters (1945), Brief Encounter (1945), Conflict (1945), Fallen Angel (1945), Incendiary Blonde (1945), The Wicked Lady (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), A Song to Remember (1945), Blithe Spirit (1945), A Royal Scandal (1945), The Spiral Staircase (1945), The Seventh Veil (1945), The Lost Weekend (1945), Detour (1945), Lady on a Train (1945), Saratoga Trunk (1945), The Clock (1945), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), Guest Wife (1945), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), The Dolly Sisters (1945), Back to Bataan (1945), Rome, Open City (1945), Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), The Naughty Nineties (1945), Notorious (1946), A Stolen Life (1946), To Each His Own (1946), The Razor's Edge (1946), Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Humoresque (1946), The Big Sleep (1946), The Stranger (1946), Great Expectations (1946), My Darling Clementine (1946), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), The Harvey Girls (1946), The Dark Mirror (1946), The Killers (1946), The Captive Heart (1946), The Blue Dahlia (1946), Without Reservations (1946), Shock (1946), Three Strangers (1946), The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), Road to Utopia (1946), Theirs Is the Glory (1946), A Night in Casablanca (1946), The Time of Their Lives (1946), Forever Amber (1947), The Long Night (1947), Out of the Past (1947), Black Narcissus (1947), A Double Life (1947), Possessed (1947), Body and Soul (1947), Lady in the Lake (1947), Cass Timberlane (1947), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Unconquered (1947), Daisy Kenyon (1947), The Bishop's Wife (1947), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), The Sea of Grass (1947), An Ideal Husband (1947), Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947), Framed (1947), Born to Kill (1947), Desert Fury (1947), Nightmare Alley (1947), Odd Man Out (1947), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), The Foxes of Harrow (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), The Paradine Case (1947), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Road to Rio (1947), The Lady from Shanghai (1948), A Foreign Affair (1948), The Pirate (1948), The Naked City (1948), Moonrise (1948), Anna Karenina (1948), Arch of Triumph (1948), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Adventures of Don Juan (1948), The Red Shoes (1948), State of the Union (1948), Every Girl Should Be Married (1948), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Ladies of the Chorus (1948), Act of Violence (1948), Easter Parade (1948), Romance on the High Seas (1948), Oliver Twist (1948), Joan of Arc (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), The Noose Hangs High (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), The Heiress (1949), My Foolish Heart (1949), Samson and Delilah (1949), Under Capricorn (1949), They Live by Night (1949), Criss Cross (1949), Impact (1949), Pinky (1949), Edward, My Son (1949), The Bribe (1949), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Adam's Rib (1949), The Big Steal (1949), Beyond the Forest (1949), The Small Back Room (1949), The Third Man (1949), Champion (1949), Africa Screams (1949), In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

1950s : Sunset Boulevard (1950), All About Eve (1950), Stromboli (1950), Stage Fright (1950), The Glass Menagerie (1950), Rashômon (1950), To Please a Lady (1950), The Men (1950), In a Lonely Place (1950), Dark City (1950), Where Danger Lives (1950), No Way Out (1950), A Lady Without Passport (1950), The Damned Don't Cry! (1950), Mystery Street (1950), Side Street (1950), Bitter Rice (1950), The Black Rose (1950), King Solomon's Mines (1950), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Tension (1950), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), The Third Man (1950), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Orpheus (1950), The Blue Lamp (1950), Twelve O'Clock High (1950), The Flame and the Arrow (1950), The Furies (1950), Sands of Iwo Jima (1950), Summer Stock (1950), The West Point Story (1950), Destination Moon (1950), Fancy Pants (1950), At War with the Army (1950), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Father of the Bride (1950), A Streetcar Named Deisre (1951), Bright Victory (1951), The Idiot (1951), Early Summer (1951), Strangers on a Train (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Mating Season (1951), Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), The Great Caruso (1951), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), No Highway in the Sky (1951), The African Queen (1951), Quo Vadis (1951), The River (1951), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), People Will Talk (1951), Young Wives' Tale (1951), Show Boat (1951), An American in Paris (1951), Royal Wedding (1951), Here Comes the Groom (1951), Cause for Alarm! (1951), The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), The Blue Veil (1951), The Browning Version (1951), Ace in the Hole (1951), The 13th Letter (1951), Detective Story (1951), The Racket (1951), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) , He Ran All the Way (1951), Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), Let's Go Crazy (1951), That's My Boy (1951), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), Comin' Round the Mountain (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Sabrina (1954), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Sabrina (1954), Rear Window (1954), La Strada (1954), The End of the Affair (1955 and 1999), East of Eden (1955), To Catch a Thief (1955), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Guys and Dolls (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Seven Year Itch (1955), The King and I (1956), War and Peace (1956), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Sayonara (1957), Funny Face (1957), The Story of Mankind (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Touch of Evil (1958), Indiscreet (1958), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Another Time, Another Place (1958), The Lovers (1958), Houseboat (1958), In Love and War (1958), I Want to Live! (1958), Vertigo (1958), Beloved Infidel (1959), Some Like It Hot (1959)

1960s : La Dolce Vita (1960), L'Avventura (1960), The Apartment (1960), The Unforgiven (1960), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), La Notte (1961), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Splendor in the Grass (1961), El Cid (1961), Lola (1961), The Innocents (1961), The Children's Hour (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), One, Two, Three (1961), West Side Story (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Gypsy (1962), Lolita (1962), Lilies of the Field (1962), That Touch of Mink (1962), 8-1/2 (1963), The Great Escape (1963), Cleopatra (1963), Charade (1963), The Birds (1963), The Silence (1963), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), Promises! Promises! (1963), The Pink Panther (1963), Woman in the Dunes (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), Mary Poppins (1964), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Dr. Zhivago (1965), Darling (1965), Darling (1965), She (1965), The Sound of Music (1965), Alfie (1966), Penelope (1966), Persona (1966), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Two for the Road (1967), Belle de Jour (1967), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1968), Funny Girl (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Barbarella (1968), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Shame (1968), Oliver! (1968), The Odd Couple (1968), Yellow Submarine (1968), Hello, Dolly! (1969), The Passion of Anna (1969), The Love Bug (1969)

1970s : The Conformist (1970), Sunflower (1970), Love Story (1970), Darling Lili (1970), The Go-Between (1970), Little Big Man (1970), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The Music Lovers (1970), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Waterloo (1970), Woodstock (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Summer of '42 (1971), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The French Connection (1971), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Get Carter (1971), Cabaret (1972), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Man of La Mancha (1972), The Godfather (1972), The Getaway (1972), The Harder They Come (1972), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Deep Throat (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Last Tango in Paris (1973), American Graffiti (1973), The Sting (1973), Don't Look Now (1973), Lenny (1974), The Great Gatsby (1974), Il Viaggio (1974), Claudine (1974), Chinatown (1974), Day for Night (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Mame (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), Herbie Rides Again (1974), L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975), Mahogany (1975), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Wind and the Lion (1975), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Love and Death (1975), Mandingo (1975), The Sunshine Boys (1975), Tommy (1975), 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1976), Taxi Driver (1976), Once Upon a Girl (1976), Welcome to L.A. (1976), Silent Movie (1976), Julia (1977), The Goodbye Girl (1977), New York, New York (1977), The Greatest (1977), The Turning Point (1977), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Same Time Next Year (1978), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Coming Home (1978), Days of Heaven (1978), Interiors (1978), The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Being There (1979), All That Jazz (1979), Caligula (1979), The China Syndrome (1979), Manhattan (1979), 10 (1979), 1941 (1979), The Muppet Movie (1979)

1980s : Somewhere in Time (1980), Ordinary People (1980), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Gloria (1980), The Elephant Man (1980), The Shining (1980), Fame (1980), Nine to Five (1980), Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980), Stir Crazy (1980), The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Body Heat (1981), On Golden Pond (1981), Reds (1981), Time Bandits (1981), The Cannonball Run (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Gandhi (1982), The Verdict (1982), Tootsie (1982), Blade Runner (1982), Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), Hanky Panky (1982), Educating Rita (1983), La Traviata (1983), Heat and Dust (1983), Terms of Endearment (1983), Flashdance (1983), The Lonely Lady (1983), Scarface (1983), Bad Boys (1983), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Amadeus (1984), The Killing Fields (1984), Against All Odds (1984), Purple Rain (1984), Places in the Heart (1984), A Passage to India (1984), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Streets of Fire (1984), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984), Out of Africa (1985), A Room with a View (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ran (1985), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Murphy's Romance (1985), Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986), Blue Velvet (1986), Children of a Lesser God (1986), A Room with a View (1986), Labyrinth (1986), Working Girls (1986), The Last Emperor (1987), Wings of Desire (1987), Red Sorghum (1987), Fatal Attraction (1987), Moonstruck (1987), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Who's That Girl (1987), Roxanne (1987), Camille Claudel (1988), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Working Girl (1988), Mississippi Burning (1988), Rain Man (1988), Coming to America (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Phantom of the Opera (1989), Steel Magnolias (1989), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)

1990s : Ju Dou (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), The End of Innocence (1990), Henry & June (1990), The Godfather Part III (1990), Bird on a Wire (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Goodfellas (1990), Mermaids (1990), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Madame Bovari (1991), The Prince of Tides (1991), Until the End of the World (1991), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), The Doors (1991), The Fisher King (1991), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Addams Family (1991), Wuthering Heights (1992), The Lover (1992), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Indochine (1992), Scent of a Woman (1992), Like Water for Chocolate (1992), Basic Instinct (1992), The Bodyguard (1992), Malcolm X (1992), Chaplin (1992), Sarafina (1992), Unforgiven (1992), The Crying Game (1992), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Farewell My Concubine (1993), M. Butterfly (1987), The Piano (1993), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993), My Favourite Season (1993), The Age of Innocence (1993), Shadowlands (1993), Being Human (1993), The Innocent (1993), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Indecent Proposal (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Carlito's Way (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Gettysburg (1993), Fearless (1993), The Firm (1993), The Fugitive (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Cool Runnings (1993), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), A Soul Haunted by Painting - Hua Hun (1994), To Live (1994), Jason's Lyric (1994), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), True Lies (1994), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), True Lies (1994), Forrest Gump (1994), Mixed Nuts (1994), Before Sunrise (1995), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Casino (1995), Desperado (1995), Jumanji (1995), Kama Sutra (1996), The English Patient (1996), Jane Eyre (1996), Temptress Moon (1996), Jude (1996), Basquiat (1996), The Rock (1996), Dragonheart (1996), The Birdcage (1996), The First Wives Club (1996), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Tango Lesson (1997), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), L.A. Confidential (1997), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Les Misérables (1998), Elizabeth (1998), Merlin (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Emperor and the Assassin (1998), Patch Adams (1998), Gia (1998), Rush Hour (1998), Est - Ouest (1999), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Entrapment (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

2000s : Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Malèna (2000), The Man Who Cried (2000), Quills (2000), Chocolat (2000), The Piano Teacher (2001), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Before Night Falls (2000), The Contender (2000), Cast Away (2000), Erin Brockovich (2000), Shanghai Noon (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), Gladiator (2000), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Original Sin (2001), Intimacy (2001), Amélie (2001), Blow (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Training Day (2001), Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Irréversible (2002), Life or Something Like It (2002), The Pianist (2002), Whale Rider (2002), Hero (2002), Insomnia (2002), 8 Mile (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Signs (2002), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Perfect Strangers (2003), Dangerous Liaisons (2003), Beyond Borders (2003), 21 Grams (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), Willard (2003), Shanghai Knights (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), Bringing Down the House (2003), Johnny English (2003), Enduring Love (2004), 2046 (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Notebook (2004), Before Sunset (2004), House of Flying Daggers (2004), Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Catwoman (2004), The Ladykillers (2004), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Passion of the Christ (2004), White Chicks (2004), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), The Libertine (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), The Island (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), Little Children (2006), The Painted Veil (2006), The Good German (2006), Babel (2006), All the King's Men (2006), Lady in the Water (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Apocalypto (2006), The Fountain (2006), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Romance & Cigarettes (2006), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), 300 (2007), Enchanted (2007), Eastern Promises (2007), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Feast of Love (2007), The Invasion (2007), August Rush (2007), American Gangster (2007), 88 Minutes (2008), Choke (2008), Mad Money (2008), James Bond series, Harry Potter series, The Matrix series FAVORITE COMEDY SHOWS : * American : I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, My Favorite Martian, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flying Nun, The Odd Couple, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Saturday Night Live, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, Bosom Buddies, Mama's Family, Who's the Boss?, The Golden Girls, Mr. Belvedere, Perfect Strangers, Designing Women, Married... with Children, Murphy Brown, In Living Color, The Nanny, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Will & Grace, Becker;* British : Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders, Blackadder, Are You Being Served?, The Vicar of Dibley, The Benny Hill Show, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Mr. Bean, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By;

FAVORITE TV SHOWS : Masterpiece Theater movies, Globe Trekker, Food Network

FAVORITE FOOD : Pilipino, American (California, Southern, Creole), Italian, French, Thai, Korean, Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Spanish, Mexican, Indian, Persian