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Los Angeles, CA

Member since April 8, 2005

Favorite Theaters

Aero Theatre Santa Monica, CA	Bay Theatre Seal Beach, CA	Cine Metropolitan San Juan, Puerto Rico	Cinema 150 Carolina, Puerto Rico
Cinerama Dome and Arclight Cinemas Hollywood, CA	Edwards Big Newport Newport Beach, CA	Egyptian Theatre Hollywood, CA	Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hollywood, CA
Mann Bruin Theatre Los Angeles, CA	Metro Cinema San Juan, Puerto Rico	Palace Theatre New York, NY	Pantages Theatre Hollywood, CA
Port Theatre Corona Del Mar, CA	Teatro Cinerama San Juan, Puerto Rico	Teatro Music Hall San Juan, Puerto Rico	Warner Grand Theater San Pedro, CA
Ziegfeld Theatre New York, NY

Favorite Movies

Lawrence of Arabia, 2001: A Space Odyssey, West Side Story, Goldfinger, Bullitt, The Empire Strikes Back, What's Up Doc?, A Passage to India, North by Northwest, Guns of Navarone, The Sound of Music, Dr. Strangelove, The Longest Day, The Godfather II, In the Heat of the Night, Around the World in 80 Days, Shaft, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dirty Harry, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Blues Brothers, Superman, The Hustler, The Right Stuff, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, Blazing Saddles, Spirit of the Beehive, Enter the Dragon, Bringing Up Baby, Baraka, Some Like it Hot, The Elephant Man, The Red Violin, Good Night and Good Luck, Black Narcissus, M*A*S*H*

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