Greetings from Tommywood: The First Installment of the Tommywood Series

Jill Sobule, Lucian Freud, Roman Polanski, Hungarians in Hollywood, Bob Dylan, Mel Brooks, R. B. Kitaj, The Heroes of Jewish Comedy, Maah-jong ,Gunther Grass. Sandor Marai, Budapest in L.A., Frank Gehry, Dreaming of a Blue and White Christmas, Remembering Rod Serling, Randy Newman, Robbie Conal, Schindler’s Impact, Michael Chabon’s “The Escapist,” “Friends,” S. J. Perelman, […]

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Son of Tommywood

The way it was (Growing up Jewish in New York), Woody Allen, Emigres in LA, Phil Rosenthal & Raymond’s End, Kitty Carlisle Hart, David Hare’s ‘Stuff Happens”), Dreamworks, Alan Zwiebel, Jonathan Rosen, Hungarian Nobel Prize Winners, Missing New Orleans, Simon Wiesenthal, Egyptomania in LA, Kosinski & The Painted Bird at 40, Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, […]

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Fast, Furious, Tommywood

Los Angeles is as much concept as city, set in a desert that flows to the sea; that ends in the sand where an ocean begins whose horizon recedes in the sunset; a city where émigrés and the children of immigrants have come to make their dreams come true. It is a mix of the […]

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Tommywood Around The World

Travel with Tommywood Around The World to experience: Sherlock Holmes in Toronto, The Met Breuer’s Unfinished State, London Calling at the Getty Center, The Making of Albert Brooks’ ‘Real Life’, Leonard Cohen’s Calling, Navigating Steinbeck Country, Zubin Mehta in Tsinandali, Bernard-Henri Levy’s Affirmative Judaism, Daphne Merkin’s ‘This Close to Happy’, Good Vibrations at the Hilbert […]

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