OCCUPATION: Host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on FOX News.
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: "Play touch football in an informal league with guys I grew up with. I'm quarterback. We play on a field I grew up on in Levittown, NY. Been playing there for 45 years. Amazing. Collection of American historical documents. I have a signed letter or document from every President, from Washington to Clinton. So that's a serious hobby. (Also) scuba diver, softball, hockey, ice skating."
FAVORITE MOVIES: "Godfather I & II, French Connection, The Exorcist, Woody Allen's Bananas, Bridge On The River Kwai, Mel Brooks' The Producers, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Saving Private Ryan."
MUSICAL TASTES: "Earth Wind & Fire, Luther Vandross, Sade, Kool & The Gang, Brook Benton, The Beatles, Hall & Oates, Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors."
ALL-TIME FAVORITE TV SHOWS: "60 Minutes, NYPD Blue, LA Law, Leave It To Beaver, Ozzie & Harriet, Rocky & Bullwinkle."
EMBARRASSING MOMENT: "My whole career is filled with them [laughs]! I did the weather once in Scranton when I was just starting out. I pretty much told 'em I didn't care about the weather and they shouldn't either."
FAVORITE MEAL: "A big, meaty lobster. No question."
FAVORITE BREAKFAST CEREAL: "Rice Chex."
FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR: "Swiss Almond."
FAVORITE BOOKS: "I read two books a week, one fiction, one non-fiction. In fiction - I like Arthur Trevanian. Ian Fleming. Charles Dickens. Non-fiction - biographies and histories of wars. I like James Lee Burke. Robert Parker."
FUNNY CAREER MEMORY: "A million of those. I almost got killed twice. In Argentina, covering the Falklands War in 1981 for CBS News. Argentine soldiers were pointing guns at me...from 20 ft. away. In Buenos Aires. I just said, 'Perio dista no despare.' Journalist, don't shoot. Showed no fear. They didn't shoot. Covering the L.A. riots (for Inside Edition), on the corner of Normandy and Vermont, right in the middle of it. They were throwing bricks and stones at us. Concrete was raining down on us. The cops saved our butts that time."
FIRST JOB: "Carvel Ice Cream in Levittown. Worked the counter. Loved it (age 17)."
GREATEST MOMENT OF CAREER: "I won two Emmys. I liked that. For 'Breaking News' covering a skyjacking (for a CBS station in Denver in '78). Jet was forced to land in Denver after it took off from L.A. And there I was. Second one was Investigative Report on city marshals corruption in New York City ('81)."
MOST PAINFUL MOMENT: "Having to move 10 times in 15 years. Moving my way up the ladder of success. Had to move so much. That was painful. Scranton, Dallas, Denver, Portland, Oregon, Hartford. Had to move my way up to the network."
FAVORITE VACATION SPOT(S): "The island of Bora Bora in Tahiti. And the Florida Keys."
DREAM INTERVIEW(S): "The Pope. Gotta get inside that Pope's head [smiles]. The Rev. Jesse Jackson. And Hillary Clinton. That would be something. We can do a Pay-Per-View on that [smiles]."
QUALITIES IN PEOPLE MOST ADMIRED: "Honesty. Good sense of humor. Very direct people. And compassion."
FAMILY: Wife, Maureen; daughter, Madeline.
EDUCATION: Marist (BS History); Boston University (MS Broadcast Journalism); Harvard (MS Public Administration).
