The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles. Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine. In Los Angeles in the 1970s great writers muse on the city in its classic decade. Featuring John Densmore on being a rock star, Matthew Specktor's reflections on The Z Channel, Deanne Stillman on the desert, and many, many more. This is an insider's look at what being an Angeleno was then and is now. Anyone with interest in the music industry or film industry of the 1970s will love Los Angeles in the 1970s. It will also appeal to anyone who loves the history of Laurel Canyon, reading about the ever-changing culture and landscape of Southern California, and those that just want to read new and established writers. Debra Wacks--the first all-women installation art piece in LA; Samantha Geimer--Roman Polanski; Dana Johnson--first hand encounter with the SLA house; Jeremy Rosenberg--Anthony Davis, the USC tailback that succeeded OJ Simpson; Jillian Franklyn--teenage promiscuity in the 1970s; Steve Hodel--1970s Hollywood Hills swing house turned kidnapping; Geza X--producing LA punk icons.
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Finalist for the Foreword INDIES award for Best Anthology 2016
"The book doesn?t merely look at the sexy components of Los Angeles history, either ? it engages with issues of rape, feminism, race relations, labor movements and more."?LA Weekly
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Nope, not talking about France during the Revolution. We're talking about Los Angeles...in the 1970s."?KPCC's "Take Two"
One of Angel's Flight Magazine's Best Books of 2016
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Short-listed for Foreword INDIES Best Anthology 2016 (United States).
John Densmore--"LA Woman Redux," The Doors in the 1970s Luis J.
Rodriguez--"What Needed Screwing Got Screwed," industrial Los Angeles in the
1970s Joe Donnelly--"Venice Bohemia: From Abbot Kinney to the Z-Boys" Dana
Johnson--"March 1974," first hand encounter with the SLA house Deanne
Stillman--"From the Desert to the Sea: First Hand Encounters With Los
Angeles," Didion-esque musings through adventures in the desert Lynne
Friedman--"Hamburgers, Hemorrhages, and Haute Cuisine" Joel Drucker--"The
Making of a (Tennis) Player," sports and sex in the 1970s Howard
Gerwitz--"Ritam Bhara Pragya," a young meditator moves to Hollywood Ken
Levine--"Me? I've Got a Pilot.," breaking into the LA TV 'biz' Geza
X--"Shitty Lead Guitarist Takes California By Storm," producing LA punk icons
in the 1970s Mitch Schneider--"Merging Worlds: Los Angeles, 1979," a New
Yorker moves to LA Jillian Franklyn--"I Was an Illegal" Bruce Ferber--"Bright
Lights, B-City," working in B pictures Matthew Specktor--"Last Button on the
Left: The Late, Great Z Channel" Michael Lazarou--"Heart of Darkness: How Dr.
Demento Saved My Bony, White Ass" Lynell George--"For Now" Susan
Hayden--"Borrowing Sugar," a poem about growing up around celebrities David
Kukoff--"It Was Fun While It Lasted... an Oral History of the Innovative
Program School" Rick McCloskey--"Cruising Van Nuys Neighborhood" Chip
Jacobs--"Snake vs. Wolf," the Esalen cult Anthony Davis and Jeremy
Rosenberg--"The Notre Dame Killer," the USC tailback that succeeded OJ
Simpson Del Zamora--"The Day Three Chicanos Died" Erica Lyons and Debra
Wacks--"Snapshots: Seventies Performance Art in LA," the first all-women
installation artpiece in LA Joy Picus--"Running For City Council in the
1970s" Samantha Geimer--"Just An Ordinary Girl," Roman Polanski Bob
Chinn--"Johnny Wadd: Origins," first encounters with John Holmes Steve
Hodel--"The Snake and Bake Murder," 1970s Hollywood Hills swinghouse turned
kidnapping and dead bodies in the desert Jim Natal--"A Few, Mostly True
Things About LA" Tom Teicholz--When Reality was a Joke: the Making of Albert
Brooks' "Real Life" (1979)
A graduate of Columbia University and UCLA Film School, David Kukoff has eleven produced film and television credits to his name. He has written for every studio and network in Hollywood, has published two books on film and television writing, and has been the subject of features.
