P O R O C H I S TA K H A K P O U R
ANGELENO M I X E D S TAT E S Ever been so happy you wished you could die? P O R O C H I S TA K H A K P O U R
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angelese come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town! — John Fante ¤
W
e lived in the Villa Carlotta in the heart of Franklin Village, across from the Scientology Celebrity Centre. William Saroyan and Louella Parsons also lived there, plus some other famous people whose names I only vaguely knew. When we lived there, Rickie Lee Jones lived on the floor below us and down the hall was one of the less famous actresses 55
