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Domenic Priore appears at Book Soup on the Sunset Strip to promote his new book, Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece (Sanctuary Publishing). Brian Chidester will be on hand with Dumb Angel No. 4. Van Dyke Parks, and Tony Asher will also be there for signing and a Q&A session.
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BRIAN CHIDESTER (left), DOMENIC PRIORE, and KING KUKULELE (center) at the Egyptian Theatre Tiki Luau event.
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TIKI LUAU EVENT — 5:00 p.m. — Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore, editors of Dumb Angel No. 4 will host a table at the Egyptian Theatre Tiki Luau event. They join
comedy/exotica bandleader King Kukulele with ukulele legend Bill Tapia, plus author/filmmaker Jeff "Beach Bum" Berry and Disney artist Kevin Kidney. The pre-show includes the short film Secret of Easter Island by Beach Bum Berry, followed by other short
surprises in Tiki Cinema and the feature film: a rare 35 mm print of BIRD OF PARADISE, 1951, 20th Century Fox/Criterion, 100 min.
The film stars Deborah Paget (Fritz Lang's THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR) in all her luscious beauty as Polynesian princess
"Kalua," opposite Louis Jourdan (GIGI) and Jeff Chandler. Director Delmer Daves (3:10 TO YUMA) creates a wildly entertaining piece of 1950s Exotica laden with gorgeous locales (Hawaii doubles for the fictional South Seas island), volcanic danger and charming depictions of daily island life. After the film in the courtyard will be music, live hula dancers, a luau dinner and much, much more!!
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DOMENIC PRIORE (right), with TONY ASHER (BRIAN WILSON'S collaborator on PET SOUNDS), during the event at Vroman's Book Store in Pasadena, July 23.
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Vroman’s Book Store — Pasadena, CA. Domenic Priore will be signing and reading from his new book, Smile:
The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece at 3:00 p.m. Also at the event will be an in-store appearance by Tony Asher, who will discuss in detail the writing of "Good Vibrations" with
Brian Wilson in 1966, as well as his work on Pet Sounds material. The new Dumb Angel No. 4 is also now available at Vroman’s, and co-editor/publisher Brian Chidester will
be there on the 23rd with Priore signing copies of Dumb Angel. Don’t miss it!
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Domenic Priore appeared on Chris Carter’s Breakfast with the Beatles radio
show to promote Dumb Angel No. 4: All Summer Long and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson’s Lost Masterpiece. KLSX-FM, Los Angeles.
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BRIAN CHIDESTER (left) and DOMENIC PRIORE at the Egyptian Theatre, "Mods & Rockers" event in L.A., July 8.
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Dumb Angel will be at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. for the "Mods & Rockers" event. The films being shown are Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik.
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Dumb Angel No. 4: All Summer Long has been picked up for distribution by Last Gasp of San Francisco.
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The Derby nightclub building on the tract of land at Hillhurst Avenue and Los Feliz Boulevard started life in 1928 as lamella roofed,
country colonial chicken inn called Willlard’s (Far Famed Chicken Steak Dinners) before becoming one of L.A.'s four Brown Derby
restaurants in 1941. The building then was home to Michael's of Los Feliz serving "continental cuisine" to the grey-haired set from about
1960 until about 1992, when the Derby (named nostalgically) opened in that spot. Louise’s Trattoria set up shop as an intriguingly
"attached" next-door neighbor.
Property has been purchased and redevelopment plan is being vetted through various committees.
The patio of Louise's is one of the most pleasant places to while away an afternoon. Altogether, the Derby/Louise’s combo makes a
gentle, old-world, un-supersized presence on that intersection, which is about to be redeveloped into an 88-condominium, five-story,
monster-structure with an architectural design best be described as Nouvelle Mar Vista. Not very fitting for our elegant tree lined Los
Feliz Boulevard, and the gateway entrance into Griffith Park leading up to the iconic Griffith Park Observatory.
This is the first major intrusion of bad & ugly L.A. reality onto Hillhurst Avenue, but we have been holding our breath. The humongous
billboard down the hill was the first domino to drop, but Los Feliz-ites had better wake up and smell the coffee because our quaint and
genteel little 'hood is fodder for salivating developers who simply do not care.
If you agree with this point of view, please attend this meeting and speak your mind.
Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 --7PM
1965 Hillhurst, LA 90027
Los Feliz Community Police Center -- 2nd fl Citibank Bldg
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Byron Preiss, 52, Digital Publishing Pioneer, Dies
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: July 11, 2005
Byron C. Preiss, an author and a publisher who specialized in illustrated books by celebrities, graphic novels and science
fiction, died in a traffic accident on Saturday in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 52 and lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Preiss was the president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and Ibooks, and was recognized as a pioneer in digital
publishing. He was among the first publishers to release CD-ROMs and electronic books, said Barbara Marcus, the
executive vice president of the publishing company Scholastic.
Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Preiss graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and earned a
master's degree in communications from Stanford University. He produced "The Words of Gandhi," an audio book that
won a Grammy Award in 1985. He was also the co-author of "Dragonworld," a novel published by Bantam Books in 1979.
Mr. Preiss published works by celebrity authors including Jane Goodall, Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, LeAnn Rimes and Jay
Leno. He was active in local charities, and was co-chairman of UJA-Federation of New York's publishing committee.
Mr. Preiss is survived by his wife, Sandi Mendelson, and two daughters, Karah and Blaire.
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