On Demand
Survival Kit
Sunday, April 18, 2004
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Barry LevinsonBarry Levison
Barry Levinson’s most personal films - Diner, Tin Men, Avalon and Liberty Heights - have been love songs to his hometown of Baltimore, nostalgic looks at a way of life long gone. And although he has gone on to write, direct, and produce more than five dozen films, including Rain Man, The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, Bugsy and Wag the Dog, he keeps returning to his native city, with the acclaimed TV series Homicide: Life on the Street and recently, a novel, Sixty-Six. I wonder if he’d like to spend his retreat in a cabin in the Maryland woods within hiking distance of Baltimore. Maybe we’ll find out when we see what he’s got in his Survival kit.
His List:
1. THE VIDEO COLLECTION OF THE MARX BROTHERS COMEDIES
2. A GUITAR (TO SEE IF I COULD LEARN TO PLAY)
3. BINOCULARS
4. AN ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR
5. FRANK SINATRA ALBUMS
6. MY OWN PILLOW
7. A BOOK CONTAINING MARK TWAIN’S SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND OBSERVATIONS
8. RIC BURNS’ DVD ON THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK
1. THE VIDEO COLLECTION OF THE MARX BROTHERS COMEDIES
2. A GUITAR (TO SEE IF I COULD LEARN TO PLAY)
3. BINOCULARS
4. AN ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR
5. FRANK SINATRA ALBUMS
6. MY OWN PILLOW
7. A BOOK CONTAINING MARK TWAIN’S SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND OBSERVATIONS
8. RIC BURNS’ DVD ON THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK