Tom jankiewicz biography
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Tom Jankiewicz
American screenwriter
Thomas Anthony Jankiewicz (September 8, 1963 – January 23, 2013) was an American screenwriter. Jankiewicz was best known for penning the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, and Dan Aykroyd.[1][2]Grosse Pointe Blank tells the story of an assassin, played by John Cusack, who returns to his hometown for his 10-year high school reunion.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Jankiewicz's mother, Marilyn, was a nurse, while his father, Anthony, was an engineer with Chrysler.[2] He was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with his parents and four siblings.[2] Jankiewicz graduated from Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights, Michigan, in 1981.[2][3] He then moved to Southern California after high school when his father took a new job with General Dynamics in Pomona, California.[2] Tom
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Tomski aka Tom Jankiewicz - producer / writer of progressive house and trance.
Tomski performed worldwide for several years until Dec 2003 as a keyboard player in the Chicane live band, sharing stage with various guests including Bryan Adams and Maire Brennan of Clannad. Live show contributions ranged from spot effects to programming a lengthy electro intro for Chicane's classic Offshore.
1995-2003 The first sessions with Chicane in a Berkshire UK studio led to future musical collaborations and the sharing of management and the record label Xtravaganza. Various solo singles, remixes and möte programming - see discography.
1991 Worked for musical instrument manufacturer Roland UK in internal sales team, building up a anställda sound library.
1985 Finished formal training on piano accordion, turning attention to synthesizers. Early musical influences were the ubiquitous 80's electronic acts such as Jean Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode and the 90's house music revoluti
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SAN BERNARDINO – The screenwriter of “Grosse Pointe Blank” died Wednesday following an appearance at Cal State San Bernardino.
Upland resident Thomas Anthony Jankiewicz, 49, was pronounced dead at 10:51 p.m. at San Bernardino Community Hospital, where he had been taken after collapsing at CSUSB.
Jankiewicz wrote the 1997 John Cusack film “Grosse Pointe Blank,” which tells the story of a professional assassin returning to the town where he graduated up on the same weekend his 10-year high school reunion is taking place.
“He walked two miles a day. My brothers and I would go on evening walks and discuss story ideas,” his brother Pat Jankiewicz said Thursday. “To say it was a shock was an understatement.”
He had screened the film for about 75 students in a Psychology and the Movies class and collapsed during a question and answer session afterward.
“He loved to write and he loved to share the joy of writing; that&rsq