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Cookie Lommel | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Lommle Cookie Lommle | |
| Occupation | Movie producer, biographer, and social activist |
| Nationality | American |
Cookie Lommel is an American author, biographer, film producer and global activist who lectures on the subject of understanding global cultures.
Early Life
Cookie Lommel began her career as a journalist in the music industry, starting as music editor for Cashbox magazine followed by associate editor of Radio & Records Magazine and editor of Black Elegance magazine.
As an entertainment industry reporter at Cable News Network (CNN), she interviewed celebrities on camera. She also worked as entertainment editor at Teen Magazine
Work with Ulli Lommel and as an Activist
She met her husband, actor-director Ulli Lommel and they formed a partnership. She became the producer of several of his films.
In addition, Cookie Lommel is an award-winning activist. After she watched, transfixed, as the Israelis mounted Operation Solomon to rescue Ethiopian Jews from civil conflict in 1991, her own humanitarian conscience was shaken with the possibility of what one determined voice could do to help an embattled planet. This prompted her to form Operation Unity[1], a non-profit organization that efectively transformed the lives of teenagers utilizing the small community model of an Israeli Kibbutz.
"She was fascinated with this tiny country and considered the kibbutz a microcosm of a community showing 'harmony in action'. She thought that American children would benefit from a trip there. On her return she sought teenagers who were 'at risk' but showed potential. She sent 5 African-Americans and 5 Latinos to Israel where they worked on a kibbutz for two months. Their lives were changed. Some went to college. Others participated in worthwhile projects and spoke publicly about their experience"[2]
The Los Angeles Times identified Ms. Lommel as a "One-woman bridge."[3] The New York Amsterdam News designated her as "The Bridge Builder."
Filmography
Overkill (1987) Associate Producer
Warbirds (1989) Associate Producer
Natural Instinct (1992) Associate Producer
Millennium Day (1995) Associate Producer
Every Minute Is Goodbye (1996) Associate Producer
Lethal Orbit (1996) Associate Producer
Danny and Max (2000) Assistant Line Producer (associate producer)
Author
Cookie Lommel is the author of books about the lives of Russell Simmons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Oglethorpe, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Robert Church, Madame C.J. Walker and Mary Church Terrell, among others.
Selected Titles:
Michelle Pfeiffer : Ihre Filme, ihr Leben (1992)
Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur (1993)
Johnnie Cochran (Black Americans of Achievement) (1999)
The History of Rap Music (2001)
Black Filmmakers (2001)
African American Actors and their Image (2003)
Further Reading
Aubry, Erin J. Crenshaw: Students Use Israel Trip to Dispel Myths (Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1994)
Tavarez, Christian: They Didn’t See Color They Saw Me (Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1994)
Hall, Carla: Israel Odyssey Forges Bonds (Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1995)
Fisher, Rachel: Travel for Tolerance (Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1996)
McDermott, Anne: American Teenagers find new Direction in Israel (CNN, November 10, 1996)
Satzman, Darrell: Teenager Shares His Israel Experiences (Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1996 )
Sentinel Staff Reporter: Skirball Presents Young Ambassadors of Harmony (Los Angeles Sentinel, April 14, 1999)
Joseph Nazel: Operation Unity, Harmony in Action (Turning Point Magazine, May 18, 2000)
Heffler, Robin: Kibbutzniks Learn Cooperation in Sunny California (Forward Newspaper, June 28, 2000)
Tugend, Tom: A One-Woman Picket Line (The Jewish Journal, December 18, 2000)
Briggs, Jimmie: The Bridge Builder (New York Amsterdam News, May 27, 2004)
Lommel, Cookie: A Tale of Two Americas (Forward Newspaper, December 24, 2004)
Dettelbach, Cynthia: A Jewish Connection in Her Soul and In her Jobs (Cleveland Jewish News, September 17, 2004)
Lommel, Cookie: American Teaches hoops to Israel Kibbutz (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 21, 2005)
Hernandez, Laura: Operation Unity Stops By Hillel (Cosair, May 7, 2008)
References
- ^ "Operation Unity - About the Founder". Operation Unity. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ OCLC, Inc. "Most widely held works by Cookie Lommel". OCLC WorldCat Identities. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Tugend, Tom (March 14, 2004). "One-woman bridge". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 14, 2018.