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 sublime and the obvious, of the new and the nouveau, of the selfless and the selfish. It is as delicate as the quality of the light, the air and the surf; and as ephemeral. It is about the outdoors and about what happens behind closed doors. Life is lived in LA in a garden of unlimited potential, a crap game where people believe that, at any moment, one well placed bet can change your life. Tommywood covers this waterfront, filtering the landscape through a very personal lens.
Writing Tommywood has allowed me to explore the city I live in and become more engaged and involved in the intellectual and dream life here. Writing Tommywood has made my life all the richer; I hope reading this volume does the same for you.
Book Expo in LA, Adam Sandler and the Zohan, Hatschek Bela, Philip Roth on film, Herb Gold, The Broad Theater, Rabbi David Wolpe, Dreamworks, Showtime, Yoram Kaniuk, Neil Diamond, David Wild, The Grammy Museum, Art Spiegelman, Maus, Facebook, Comic book heroes, Holocaust Movies, Sid Grauman, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Jewball, Laszlo Kozma, Vidiots, What Survives from the Sixities, Movie Music, Civil Rights imagery, Dealing in Judaica, Rethinking Kasztner, J.D. Salinger obit, a Q & A with Mel Brooks.
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