Tommy “the Matchmaker” Curtis died May 5 at age 75. He was calling from Bethesda, site of his most famous creation: the Yacht Club, a singles event held in a landlocked Holiday Inn on Wisconsin Avenue. “I was nobody when I was in law school,” Tommy told me once, explaining what drove him to get into the good-time business. Siskel and Ebert never made movies.’ ”Tommy Curtis did make movies, or produce them anyway. AD(Friends and Yacht Club veterans are invited to share their Tommy memories online at tommythematchmaker.com.)

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2020 19:07 UTC