Aaron Beatty

Vassar College, Yale University, St. Petersburg University

recruiter/film critic/writer/editor/ tutor

democracy matters, bostondirtdogs.com, ReadBoston (www.readboston.org)

Film, Russian Literature, Baseball, Dogs, Writing, Acting, Working Out, Red Sox, Peter Gammons, Fantasy Football/Baseball, Plays, People-watching, Pool, Opera, Gardening, Power Yoga

The Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Catch-22, The Brothers Karamazov, Goodnight Moon, Miss Rumphius, Brave New World, A Separate Peace, Little Women, Of Mice and Men, Little House on the Prairie, Look Homeward, Angel, The Sun Also Rises, The Goat, Great Expectations, The Old Man and the Sea, Birdsong, Where the Wild Things Are, 1984, Lonesome Dove, The Great Gatsby, All the Pretty Horses, Summer of '49, Anna Karenina, Corelli's Mandolin, Wuthering Heights, The Master and Margarita, Animal Farm, Ethan Frome, Eugene Onegin, Maniac Magee, The Chocolate War, Fade, After the First Death, Danny, the Champion of the World, The Red Badge of Courage

Check out my film reviews at www.cvspectator.com. The Lives of Others, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, Cinema Paradiso, The Best Years of Our Lives, Dr Zhivago, Network, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Sunset Boulevard, Babe, Stagecoach, The Godfather I and II, The Wild Bunch, Goodfellas, The Searchers, Heat, The Thin Red Line, Sense and Sensibility, Deja Vu, Dumbo, Amores Perros, Jean de Florette, The Killer, Brokeback Mountain, Say Anything, Aliens, Citizen Kane, Talk to Her, Jackie Brown, Unforgiven, Pride and Prejudice (the new one), Magnolia, Casablanca, Collateral, The Last of the Mohicans, Frida, Punch-Drunk Love, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Shootist, Pulp Fiction, Jerry Maguire, Out of Sight, The Magnificent Seven, Burnt by the Sun, Not One Less, Notting Hill, The Bad Sleep Well, Harakiri, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, Some Like It Hot, Finding Nemo, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Moonstruck

Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sinatra, The Beatles, Aimee Mann, Tom Waits, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Delfonics, The Platters, Radiohead, Rent soundtrack

The Wire, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Big Love, Top Chef, Dexter, Entourage, The Shield, 24, Sportscenter, The West Wing

Virgo

Articulate, exciting people who make me think, laugh and shake my head once in a while