Greetings from Tommywood: The First Installment of the Tommywood Series - Softcover

Teicholz, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988396440 ISBN 13: 9780988396449

Publisher: Pondwood Press, 2015

Synopsis

Who's in TOMMYWOOD?
 
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, Uketopia, Robert Evans, Bernard-Henri Levy, The Rambam, Isaac Babel, Yiddish with Dick and Jane, Cleaning House, Lenny Bruce, The cemeteries of LA, Jonathan Schwartz, Nessa Rapoport, Stefan Zweig, Becoming a Nephew, Dance in LA, Don Was, Arthur Miller, Ephraim Kishon: The Funniest Man in the World.

About this title

From the Author:

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. I've been able to interview icons as disparate as architect Frank Gehry, French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and legendary producer Robert Evans. I've had a backstage tour of Disney Hall, visited a charter school in South Central, and was a given a tour of his home by painter R. B. Kitaj before his untimely death.

About the Author:

Tom Teicholz is an award-winning journalist, producer and content consultant who has created print, video and social media content for Intel, Logitech,The Museum of Tolerance, The Milken Family Foundation as well as for several not-for-profits and private clients. His work has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page, Newsweek.com, The Paris Review, The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town', Narrative Magazine, Forbes.com and the Huffington Post. He lives with his wife and daughter in Santa Monica, CA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pondwood Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0988396440
• ISBN 13: 9780988396449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278