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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This latest volume of collected columns presents a variety of close encounters of the Tommywood kind. It looks forward to high tech offerings from CES and on display at the Israel Conference and looks back at the Hollywood Blacklist in Exile. There are articles about well known writers such as Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow (though […]
Read More… from Close Encounters of the Tommywood Kind
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 […]
Read More… from Tommywood III: The Column Strikes Back
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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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, […]
Read More… from Son of 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 […]
Read More… from Fast, Furious, Tommywood
In “Beyond the Valley of Tommywood,” lies a mix of reading as entertaining as it is informative about, artists, people, places and subjects you never knew you would enjoy so much. Read BEYOND THE VALLEY OF TOMMYWOOD to find: The Kendall Jenner of the Belle Epoque, Andy Warhol Goes Disco, My Nazi Revenge, The Possum, […]
Read More… from Beyond The Valley of Tommywood (The Tommywood Collection Book 7)
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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