Tom Gregory (producer)
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Tom Gregory is an American entertainer and socio-political commentator.

Biography

Tom Gregory is an actor, radio personality, and a socio-political and entertainment industry commentator. He and his significant other, philanthropist and technology entrepreneur, David Bohnett
David Bohnett
David C. Bohnett is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur.-Life and career:Bohnett was born in Chicago, Illinois...

 live in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

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Media

Tom Gregory’s ongoing media forums include his webisode GregoryWayTV.com, his Huffington Post column, and regular radio dispatches for Leeza Gibbons’ internationally syndicated program Hollywood Confidential. He has also been featured on CNN, E!, and Fox News, among other outlets, and is the face of OVGuide.com, one of the Internet’s leading sources for indexing online video content. Gregory debuted as a Broadway producer on the 2009 Tony Award-nominated revival of Guys and Dolls at the Nederlander Theatre.

Hollywood Memorabilia

Tom Gregory is a collector of autographed, archival Hollywood photographs. Included in his collection are a photo of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....

 circa 1955 that is personalized to James Dean
James Dean
James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...

; an image of Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

 in full Frankenstein monster regalia; and an exquisite portrait of Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...

 that is one of only a few known copies in the world.
Hollywood memorabilia in his collection are the cowboy shirts worn by Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career...

 and Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten...

 in the film Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. It is a film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx with the screenplay written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry...

 as well as the suit, shirt, tie and campaign pin worn by Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

 during his Oscar-winning performance in Milk
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...

 The auction bids for these items have benefitted different charities.

Philanthropy

Tom Gregory’s philanthropic involvement also spans both coasts. In Los Angeles, where one of his two homes is an A. Quincy Jones-designed architectural wonder originally owned by film icon Gary Cooper, he teaches afterschool acting classes for pre-teens, drawing on his own acting experience gained in repertory companies in East Hampton, NY and Delray Beach, FL. In Southampton, NY, where he also has a home, Tom Gregory helped found the Lake Agawam Conservation Association to clean-up the lake’s fragile eco-system.

LGBT Rights

As an ardent supporter of human rights and civil liberties, Tom writes prolifically on LGBT issues in his articles for the Huffington Post. His media and philanthropic efforts on the behalf of the LGBT communities rest on his faith in the institution of America’s promise of equality and justice for all its citizens. He was also a major contributor to the “No on Prop 8” campaign.

External links

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