- Favorite author: John Updike
- Loved dogs, especially beagles, and preferred human names for pets such as Milton or Frances
- Favorite color: orange
- Favorite films:
- Sundays & Cybele ( which won two Oscars)
- The Sound of Music (Which is one of my top two favorite movies of all time. The other one is Pulp Fiction.)
- West Side Story (he saw it four times)
- Great actor: Richard Burton
- Favorite actor: Paul Newman
- Music he liked: a lot of folk! I made this Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/4I8KdG44TGuxTR63XxcQZf
- Foods he liked:
- Apple pie and American cheese
- Spinach
- Peas
- String beans
- Sometimes broccoli
- Lima beans but only in soup
- Meat – steak, liver, roast beef – all rare
- Sweet potatoes with crushed pineapple and marshmallows
- Chocolate pudding
- Ice cream with cereal and chocolate syrup (corn flakes and rice krispies)
- Fish
- Carrots
- Tomato juice with lemon
- Hamburgers with mustard, ketchup and onions
- Chocolate malteds
- Tuna fish
- Salmon mixed with hardboiled eggs
- Apples
- Peaches
- Pears
- Plums
- Cherries
- Grapes
- Honeydew
- Watermelon
- Apricots
- Raisins
- He liked his toast very dark, almost burnt and he liked orange juice but not with breakfast
- Food he didn’t like: mushrooms, squash, eggplant, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, lobster, turnips, herring