Tommy Schnurmacher is a Canadian author, journalist, broadcaster, and raconteur. He was a longtime show-business columnist and the host of a highly rated daily three-hour radio talk show on CJAD in Montreal for more than twenty years. Winner of the Golden Ribbon Award presented by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, he was shortlisted for the 2021 Whistler Independent Book Award. He is on the board of directors of the Foundation for Genocide Education in Montreal. International human rights activist Irwin Cotler once described Tommy as an exemplar of political humor. Tommy spent an entire week with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Bed-In for Peace. He has covered the Academy Awards thirteen times, he once proposed marriage to French actress Catherine Deneuve and he is still proud that Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep once stepped on his foot in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Written by a second-generation child of survivors, it is the story of a Hungarian Jewish refugee family's cultural collision and delightful dysfunction. With the growing pains of Shtisel, the earthiness of The Simpsons and the fierce family loyalty of The... SEE MORE