Yael Swerdlow
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Photojournalist/Public Diplomacy Consultant |
| Location | Los Angeles, Calfiornia, United States |
| Introduction | I believe with all my heart that to strive to make the world a better place is the most exhilarating, fun, and occasionally difficult endeavor we as a species can attempt, and that I get to be a small part of that gives me incredible joy. I am also an incurable romantic, and a pragmatic optimist. Maybe that's why I believe so strongly that our wandering journeys are magical. I am the creator of Life's Theory of the Kosmik Slingshot....as well as its companion martini. |
| Interests | Taking Pictures, Hanging with my Doggie, Gyrotonics, Working out, Pretending I am an ex-pat in a foreign city, creating the perfect martini, relearning how to read music so I can play my new piano, trying to relearn my French, learning Hebrew and Yiddish, discovering new dive restaurants, LA Opera, LA Phil, supporting Israel through Na'amat and Hadassah, learning how to be a gourmet cook, learning how to dance--not like the stars, just basic right now, reading, searching for deliciously welcoming cafes while searching for the most gourmet heaven-sent espresso, writing fiction, regaining and maintaining my crown as "Queen of Mischief" supporting the International Criminal Court, Human Rights, International Aid, Photojournalism, travelling everywhere, anything to do with Africa, Opera, Theatre, The Young Musicians Foundation---where we have established the Swerdlow Family Scholarship Fund, espionage.... |
| Favorite movies | The Secrets (Israeli film)Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Walk on Water, Nina's Tragedies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Good Night and Good Luck, Roman Holiday, Bonjour Mousieur Shlomi, House of Flying Daggers, The Odessa File, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Two for the Road, To Catch a Thief, Charade, Un Homme et Une Femme, Love Actually, Until the End of the World, The End of Violence, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Three Days of the Condor, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Strictly Ballroom, Le Dernier Metro, Cinema Paradiso, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Great Race, The Pink Panther (original) Under Fire, and all the James Bond films, especially Thunderball and From Russia With Love |
| Favorite music | Classical, Opera, Jazz, World Beat, Oldies, Big Band Swing, Soundtracks (especially those by John Barry)....and ANYTHING by Mancini. |
| Favorite books | The Witch of Portobello, The History of Love, Eat, Pray, Love, Dr. Zhivago, Crossing to Safety, A Problem From Hell: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Genocide, The Road Less Travelled, The Warrior's Honor, Harriet the Spy, The Red Tent, Truth or Dare, The Eight, Siddartha, everything by Graham Greene especially The Quiet American, everything by Milan Kundera especially Immortality, everything by Alan Furst, everything by Daniel Silva, everything by Frederick Forseyth, all the Donna Leon "Inspector Brunetti" books, all the Ian Fleming James Bond books, especially Casino Royale. |