Close Encounters of the Tommywood Kind - Softcover

Teicholz, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996432108 ISBN 13: 9780996432108

Publisher: Pondwood Press, 2015

Synopsis

 
            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 the prism of his first born son), and Etgar Keret, profiles of legends such as Lou Adler visual artists past, such as Hans Richter and Jackson Pollack and present, such as Judy Fiskin, Gary Baseman, Miri Chais, Nor Evron and Orit Raff. There are celebrations of those long departed such as The Marx Brothers, the Jewish Heroes of the Soviet Red Army during WWII, and an appreciation of Sandy Frank, a life ended too soon. Singers and songwriters abound from Theo Bikel, to Noa and Danny Sanderson, and Los Angeles resident performer-priest, Leonard Cohen whose new album released around the time of his 80th birthday, is in itself cause for the celebration that occurs in Tommywood.

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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. Tommywood has made my life so much richer; and I hope it does the same for my readers.

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: 0996432108
• ISBN 13: 9780996432108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204