aka Moe Berg

At 1:13 AM on July 25th, Twitter user and opera aficionado @dario_moreno asked fellow Twitter user and international superstar @AlecBaldwin to name his favorite opera.

Two minutes later, Baldwin replied “MB”, and, in the process, set off a furious two day long “What’s your favorite…” tweet session with curious fans.

Because I am a dope, I went through Baldwin’s feed with a fine tooth internet comb and listed everything I learned below. Feel free to use this information to strike up a conversation with the man if you ever run into him.

ALEC BALDWIN’S FAVORITE…

Aimee Mann song: Wise Up

Al Pacino film: Panic in Needle Park

Alfred Hitchcock film: Strangers on a Train

Audrey Hepburn film: Wait Until Dark

Bar in New York: Hurley’s (now closed)

Barbra Striesand film: The Mirror Has Two Faces; Prince of Tides; Funny Girl

Beard: Santa Claus; Scott Chaskey

Billy Joel song: Summer, Highland Falls

Boxer: Muhammad Ali; Roberto Duran; Teofilo Stevenson

Burt Reynolds film: Sharky’s Machine

Cantinflas film: Around the World in 80 Days

Cary Grant film: Notorious

Cigar: Upmann Churchill

City in Maine: Portland

City in Vermont: Middlebury

Clark Gable film: The Misfits

Clint Eastwood film: The Outlaw Josey Wales

Cohn Brothers film: Miller’s Crossing; Barton Fink

Comedy: The Fortune Cookie

Daniel-Day Lewis film: Last of the Mohicans

Denzel Washington film: Malcolm X

Drug: Turkish Taffy

Dustin Hoffman film: Midnight Cowboy

Film title sequence: To Kill a Mockingbird

French word: L’esprit

French-Canadian: Guy LaFleur

Gene Hackman film: Unforgiven; The French Connection; The Royal Tenenbaums

Humphrey Bogart film: Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Jack Nicholson film: Ironweed

James Bond film: Thunderball (for the Tom Jones theme song)

James Dean film: East of Eden

Jimmy Stewart film: Anatomy of a Murder

John Cassavetes film: Husbands

John Wayne film: Red River

Johnny Depp film: Sweeney Todd

Kate Winslet film: “All of them.”

Leonardo Dicaprio film: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Line from Miami Blues: “Everything’s turning all orange and silver….”

Male co-star: Robert Osbourne

Marlon Brando film: Waterfront

Martin Scorcese film: The Age of Innocence

Member of Wu Tang Clan: Ghostface Killa, Old Dirty Bastard

Meryl Streep film: Out of Africa

Michael Caine film: Hannah and her Sisters

Michael Douglas film: The Game

Movie villain: Jack Palance in “Shane”

Music: “Whatever the New York Philharmonic is playing.”

Mustache: Boris Badenov style

On-screen kiss with a co-star: Susanna Thompson

On-set momento: photo from Miami Blues

Opera: Madama Butterfly

Paul Newman film: The Verdict

Pizza in New York: Brothers, Fresh Meadows, Queens

Place in London: Sautter’s Tobacconist, Mayfair

Place to smoke a cigar: Mount Street Garden

Professional Wrestler: Nacho Libre

Reality Show: Hoarders

Republican: Abraham Lincoln; Teddy Roosevelt

Restaurant, London: La Port Des Indes

Restaurant, Long Island - Nick and Toni’s; American Hotel; Sen; Robert’s in Watermill; the Palm; Citta Nuova

Robert Altman film: Short Cuts

Robert Deniro film: Awakenings

Robert Redford film: Three Days of the Condor

Sarah Silverman body part: parietal cortex

Science Fiction film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Sexual Position: “The Hallway”

Sissy Spacek film: Affliction; The River; Coal Miner’s Daughter

Stanley Kubrick film: Paths of Glory; Barry Lyndon

Star Trek film: The Wrath of Khan

Star Wars film: The Empire Strikes Back

Steve McQueen film: Papillion

Steven Spielberg film: Munich

Television show: 60 Minutes

Thing about Canada: Canadians; skiing

Thing about Syracuse: Wegman’s

Tom Hanks film: Cast Away

Vacation: Figure Eight Island, Wilmington, NC

William Holden film: Stalag 17