Shirley Zilberstein

lev tov, farmland, lincoln hall, niles west h.s., newton south h.s., upenn

University of Pennsylvania, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of , Bachelor's Degree, Political Science / Communication

TV producer

Bloomers, NOW, Daily Pennsylvanian, Medem Bibliotheque, Annenberg Public Policy Ctr, the Turner media conglomerate

girls and the girly things they do, docs (documentaries not Jewish doctors), theatre!, feminism and where it's going, painting without paint, playing with my DV cam, writing bad romance stories, dorky Penn alum activities, sex workers, raw food, telling people about "my film", swimming, smelly cheeses, wine, pornography, running in the cold, whiskey, Yiddish, mean gossip, restauranting, Zionism

The Corrections, Elvis & Me, Starr Report (used to have a copy under my bed), High Fidelity, Gone With the Wind, Whores & Other Feminists, Hamlet, The Little Friend, Aviah's Summer, The Human Stain, Fast Food Nation, Written on the Body, Shadows on the Hudson, Let's Go! Italy, The Feminine Mystique

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Impromptu, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Kissing Jessica Stein, Hannah and her Sisters, Manhattan, Zelig, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Office Space, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, My Fair Lady, Sabrina (1954), Breakfast at Tiffany's, Funny Face, Two for the Road, Capturing the Freidmans, Amelie, Broadcast News, Adam's Rib

stuff with dirty words, old crooners, Yiddish cabaret, M.C. Solaar, Peaches, Dmitri of Paris, good electronic stuff, Lords of Acid, Technotronic, artists still small enough to play at our parties

I just killed my TV, but I used to watch: Golden Girls, South Park, Sex and the City, The L Word, Seinfeld, The Daily Show, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Real World Philly, Real World Hawaii.

i hate people who walk widely -- take up too much of the sidewalk when i'm behind them trying to keep rhythm. i actually think about this daily. i love nights so long and full, it's hard to keep the details straight the next morning. i hate people who speak in soliloquy. i love my job when the deadline is so tight i'm pissing my pants and then we make air, high fives all around, and for that brief moment we're all so much in love. i live off adrenaline and hate the denouement when i crash. i love people. love em. love em. except when they speak in soliloquy. i tend to love life too. am a big ole smiley face. except when i'm on the denouement. then i hate it. i'm good at extremes. i'm bad at humility. often i'm too cautious. it's why i don't like going downhill. (between the ages of 6 and 12, my most prominent phobia was the playground slide. if you get to know me well, one day i might tell you my most prominent phobia between ages 13 and 17.) but the thing i fear most, the thing that gives me sweaty nightmares and always has is betrayal. and yet i'm trusting to a fault. i hate filling out this friendster box, and i still haven't figured out quite how.

people i already know but haven't fully enjoyed yet