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Tod

As Voltaire said; Common sense is not so common.

About Me

Tod has been a Producer, Film Editor, and Studio Executive for over twenty-five years. In December 2006 he completed MR. BACH COMES TO CALL, a PBS special about JS Bach which will have its theatrical premier in May, and is currently working on the development of several new television series. He is also the Executive Producer of the Indie feature, THE OLD CEMETERY, which will be filmed in the summer of 2007.
He was the Executive Producer of the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Miramax release MARVIN'S ROOM, and his past credits include THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, David O. Russell's SPANKING THE MONKEY and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, Yimou Zhang's RAISE THE RED LANTERN & JU DOU, ROBINSON CRUSOE, STAR TREK NEMESIS, HELEN OF TROY, THIR13EN GHOSTS, WIDE AWAKE, MANNY & LO, WIGSTOCK THE MOVIE, MARIA'S LOVERS, SEX WITH STRANGERS, Barry Levinson's THE NATURAL, Samuel Beckett's FILM, The Mary Tyler Moore TV series NEW YORK NEWS, MTV's HOUSE OF STYLE, INSPECTOR GADGET, The BBC's WHAT NOT TO WEAR, VIETNAM WAR STORY, THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL REVISITED, GULLAH, GULLAH ISLAND, SESAME STREET, and many others.
He was previously a Production Executive at MGM working on such notable projects as A VIEW TO KILL, 2010, ROCKY IV, and NINE 1/2 WEEKS, as well as the Head Of Post Production at Cannon Films, supervising over 30 films like BREAKIN', MISSING IN ACTION, Bo Derek's BOLERO, MAKING THE GRADE, THE AMBASSADOR, NINJA III THE DOMINATION, and GRACE QUIGLEY with Katherine Hepburn. Tod was also a Producer at the advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather in New York and Ted Bates in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been a production consultant to both American Express, and The Coca-Cola Company, advising on both advertising and corporate communications, and has also produced scores of music videos for artists as diverse as Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, George Michael, U2, Bob Marley, Brian Ferry, KISS, Joe Walsh, Rachel Sweet, Klaus Nomi, The Bongos, Katrina and the Waves, and Roseanne Cash.
In 1997 Tod received a Christopher Award for MARVIN'S ROOM. The Christophers are given to films, television shows, books, and recordings which "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."
Additionally, Tod has had films at Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Avignon, Deauville, London, Stockholm, Moscow, Montreal, The Hamptons, Melodist, San Francisco, Cinequest San Jose, Nantucket, Kansas City, Great Lakes, and Monte Carlo, as well as the Academy Awards, the César Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, BAFTA, the Peabody Awards, the SAG Awards, the ASCAP Awards, and the Golden Globes!
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My Interests

I have a need to know what's going on in the world around me, so I'm politically active but not obsessed. I was raised in Manhattan, but I spent a good part of my teens with my father who lived in Stockholm, so I experienced a world view I might not have gained in the States. I learned a lot of important lessons in Sweden, including not to mindlessly believe my own government or the media!
I'm a child of the sixties, so I'm pretty far to the left by today's standards, and I've been utterly dismayed with the direction my native land has taken during the Bush presidency. Just drive from NY to LA and you'll feel like you've gone through the Twilight Zone. I'd really like to escape across the Atlantic and live permanently in Europe again, but I feel that I have a duty to spend some time in the US and help effect change! Now that the Dems are back in control of both houses of Congress maybe we'll move back in the right direction.
I was just blown away when the idiot in the White House suggested that the FISA Act was close to thirty years old and outdated, so why should he have to obey it! What a good example for our children! Perhaps someone should remind the moron that the US Constitution was written over 200 years ago! Oh wait, he wouldn't care. He already suspended The Bill of Rights after 9/11. And how many times did we have to listen to the Republicans tell us about the "rule of law" during the Clinton Presidency?

I'd like to meet:


April 12th, 2007 would have been my dad's 80th birthday. He died in October of 1996, at the age of 69, the day before my 40th birthday. I wish I could have spent just one more day with him.
Anyone who's actually capable of opening their mind, opening their eyes, and thinking for themselves. Anyone who creates be it the exchange of ideas, music, film, theatre, painting, sculpture, tattoo art, dance, literature, poetry, photography, philosophy, knitting, crocheting, finger-painting, or making sandcastles...
And anyone else who understands how Mr. Bush and his administration have set the United States back decades while subjugating the constitution, lining their pockets, and voiding the rights the original American Patriots and the generations who followed them all fought and died for. This President who talked all about his "faith" and "morality" and his administration, who claimed they were coming to Washington to end corruption and clean up the "dirt" have proven to be the most dishonest and morally bankrupt people we've ever had leading the country! They've done nothing but coat the White House in mud and slime. The whole world is watching us, and most of them are as disgusted with what they see as I am. We claim to have saved the world sixty years ago, and now we're doing our best to destroy it! I just hope the rest of the world doesn't confuse the American People with the American President. It's important to remember that he was elected by five members of the Supreme Court, not the American People!

Music:

Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Elvis, Coltrane, Hendrix, Chet Baker, Crowded House, The Who, Dave Graney, Chris Wilson, The Go-Betweens, Joe Walsh, Nick Cave, João Gilberto, Camille, Al Green, Yves Montand, CCR, Aimee Mann, Stan Getz, Tom Jobim, Aretha, Ketell Keinig, AWB, Breck Alan, Beth Orton, Jeb Loy Nichols, Bob Marley, Bouga, Cake, Travis, Steely Dan, Dr. John, Gram Parsons, Sinatra, The Beatles, Wings, George Harrison, Harry Nilson, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Gainsbourg, Joss Stone, Julia Fordham, Wendy Colonna, King Curtis, Duane Allman, Lou Reed, Manu Dibango, Martin Sexton, Hunters and Collectors, Neil Young, CSNY, Nitty Grity Dirt Band, Norah Jones, Janne Schaffer, Pat Metheny, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Pretenders, Rickie Lee Jones, REM, Pure Prarie League, The Stones, Shawn Colvin, Supertramp, T-Rex, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, and probably a hundred people I forgot...

Movies:

My top 100 in alphabetical order:
8 1/2
A Clockwork Orange
A Man For All Seasons
A Streetcar Named Desire
All That Jazz
Amadeus
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Bonnie & Clyde
Breaker Morant
Breathless
Bullitt
Casablanca
Charade
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
Cries and Whispers
Dangerous Liasons
Darling
Das Boot
Day For Night
Deliverance
Dogday Afternoon
Don't Look Now
Dr. Strangelove
ET The Extraterestrial
Fanny and Alexander
Fellini's Roma
Five Easy Pieces
Full Metal Jacket
Galipoli
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
Gosford Park
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
High Noon
Hiroshima Mon Amour
In The Heat Of The Night
The Hours
Jaws
Jean de Florette
L'Avventura
La Dolce Vita
Last Tango in Paris
Magnolia
Manhattan
Midnight Cowboy
Mississippi Burning
Nashville
Network
No Way to Treat a Lady
O Lucky Man
On The Waterfront
Patton
Persona
Play Misty For Me
Prince of Tides
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Reds
Repulsion
Return of the Jedi
Schindler's List
Serpico
Shane
Smiles of A Summer Night
Some Like it Hot
Stalag 17
Star Wars
The 400 Blows
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Birds
The Confession
The Exorcist
The French Connection
The Getaway
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Graduate
The Grande Illusion
The Great Escape
The Killing Fields
The Last Picture Show
The Major and the Minor
The Night Porter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Rules of the Game
The Seventh Seal
The Shining
The Sting
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Thin Man
The Wizard Of Oz
Thelma & Louise
Toy Story
Week End
Wild Strawberries

Television:

My current favorites on American TV are House and Bones. I'm still addicted to reruns of TNG and DS9, and now I'm into Voyager also. Other than that, I don't really watch a lot. I still like the Sopranos, still miss Six Feet Under, and never saw a single episode of Sex And The City! On the other hand, I think I watched every episode of Sponge Bob with my boys, and every other show on the Cartoon Network. But that was when they were younger.

Books:

I really like Phillip Roth's Zuckerman and Kepesh books, John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom, Naguib Mahfouz' Cairo Trilogy, and most of all, Richard Ford's three novels about Frank Bascombe. I really hope he writes a fourth (Even though he says he won't). It would be such a shame to leave us with The Lay of the Land as our final look at Bascombe with so much of his story unfinished.
Philip Roth, Naguib Mahfouz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, AE Houseman, Robert Frost, Tony Hecht, Richard Ford, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Homer (I especially like the Fagles translation of The Iliad and The Odyssey), Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Samuel Beckett, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, TS Eliot, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, A.S. Byatt, Nick Hornby, and I know I've left out dozens...

Heroes:

Mighty Mouse