CeliaStraus' profile

Eons member since

March 23, 2008

Real name

Celia Straus

Age, Gender

58, Female

Hometown

Salt Lake City, Utah

Places I've been

Washington, DC 25 years - primary residence Nantucket MA 22 summers beach home Israel - 8 trips 1982- 2001 Berlin, Germany - taught school there 2 years Majorca - Ran a restaurant in Porto Andrach Salt Lake City - Summers and skiing Tokyo, Japan - lived there 3 years as a teenager Venice - 4 trips, favorite city except for NYC Visited multiple times: Weisbanden, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Athens

Education

• Georgetown University, Masters in Medieval Literature - 1976 to 1978

More about me

I am a writer producer living in Washington, D.C. I have two daughters 25 and 21. I have a summer home in Nantucket.

Favorite Music

Eric Clapton, Dixie Chicks, Ronettes, Faith Hill, Puccini, Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, Jimmy Buffet, Bob Dylan, Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Reba Macintire, Gracie Slick, Janis Joplin, Verdi,

Activities

Reading, exercise, baking, playing with my dog, IMing my daughters, helping wounded vets who have returned from Iraq with TBI, movies, scrapbooking, cross-country skiing, ocean, Salt Lake City Utah where I am from

Favorite TV Shows

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tell Me You Love Me, Sopranos, The Tudors, John Adams, SNL, The Office, The Riches, Big Love, The Shield, NYPD BLues, Mash, The Wire, In Treatment, Deadwood, The Hill, Homicide

Favorite Movies

Four Weddings and a Funeral, Casablanca, Shakespeare In Love, Full Metal Jacket, Kill Bill I and II, Pulp Fiction, Atonement, Good Fellas, Groundhog Day, Ghost Busters I and II, Aliens, Citizen Kane, Everyone Says I Love You, Hannah and Her Sisters, ET, Shindler's List, Shane, Pride and Prejudice, THe Shining, Last of the Mohicans, Gladiator, Citizen Kane, anything by Spielberg, Truffaut, Hitchcock, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Lawrence of Arabia, Wind and the Lion, High Fidelity, Working Girl, Meet Joe Black, Knocked Up, Annie Hall, Gone With The Wind, Notorious, North by North West and so on

Favorite Books

The Ring Series by Tolkein, War and Peace, A History of Love, Einstein, 1776, Fifteen Stars, Dance to the Music of Time, Handful of Dust, Liar's Poker, Life of Pi, Water for Elephants, Jane Austin, Divine Comedy, Anything by Shakespear, The Bible, Canterbury Tales, Hidden Journey, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and so on

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