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Well, it looks like everyone these days is posting their own favourites lists, so I might as well get in on the act. I always thought that lists are a guy thing, but it looks as if a good number of the ladies are also busy letting all of us know their preferences. So here we go:

Favourite Current TV Show:
Tru Calling

All time favourites:

24
The Avengers
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Desperate Housewives
Doctor Who (only the current series, not the old ones)
Frasier
Friends
Heroes
I Spy
Malcolm in the Middle
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Melrose Place (No comment!)
Mission Impossible
Moonlighting
The Persuaders
Red Dwarf
The Saint
The Sopranos
All things Star Trek, but especially the classics and the Next Generation
Remington Steele
Third Rock From the Sun
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
UFO
Will and Grace
The X-Files

My all time favourite actors are Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro and Jacqueline Bisset. I could easily live for the rest of my life just rewatching any of their films.

There are, however, also a bunch of other actors that are often very close behind in my estimate. I have even set up a little private web site dedicated to some of my favourite ladies, the Girls from the Hammer movies.

Actors:

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Humphrey Bogart
Nicolas Cage
David Carradine
Alain Delon
Clint Eastwood
Richard Harris
Boris Karloff
Klaus Kinski
Peter Lorre
Bela Lugosi
Steve McQueen
Roger Moore
Jack Nicholson
Peter O'Toole
Oliver Reed
John Wayne
Bruce Willis

Actresses:

Ursula Andress
Monica Bellucci (My current favourite!)
Julie Christie
Cameron Diaz
Kirsten Dunst (My heart stops a beat everytime I think of *that* scene in Spider-Man)
Pam Grier
Famke Janssen
Sylva Koscina
Dina Meyer
Julianne Moore
Agnes Moorehead
Ingrid Pitt
Charlotte Rampling

Honorary Mention:

Bettie Page (I know she wasn't strictly speaking an actress, but - Hell! - she was Bettie Page!)

Isaac Asimov
Dan Brown
Mikhail Bulgakov
Giacomo Casanova
John Case
Michael Crichton
Raymond Chandler
Dostoevskij
Arthur Conan Doyle
Umberto Eco
Ian Fleming
Walter Gibson (The Shadow)
Ernest Hemingway
Franz Kafka
H.P. Lovecraft
Peter O'Donnell (Modesty Blaise)
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Edgar Allan Poe
Sax Rohmer (Fu Manchu)
Mickey Spillane
Jules Verne
Francois Villon
Oscar Wilde
Cornell Woolrich
John Wyndham

Great books:

Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential/A Cook's Tour
Henri Charriere: Papillon
Mikhail Lermontov: A Hero of our Time
Pete McCarthy: McCarthy's Bar
Georges Simenon: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel

Dario Argento
John Carpenter
The Coen Brothers
Larry Cohen
Roger Corman
Guillermo Del Toro
Brian De Palma
Federico Fellini
Walter Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Jackson
Stanley Kubrick
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Sam Peckinpah
Sam Raimi
Robert Rodriguez
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Francois Truffaut
Paul Verhoeven
Orson Welles
Ed Wood

That is comics, as in comic strips, not comedians. Can't stand those buggers.

Favourite Series and characters:

The Avengers
Batman
Captain America
Daredevil
Doctor Strange
Master of Kung Fu
Modesty Blaise
Spider-Man
Tintin
Tomb of Dracula
Vampirella
Werewolf by Night
Witchblade

Favourite Comic Artists:

Jordi Bernet
Jean Giraud/Moebius
Hermann
Hugo Pratt
Jacques Tardi
William Vance
Neil Vokes