Romeo and Juliet in L.A.

About the Book

The novel ROMEO AND JULIET IN L.A.  gives the story of the making of a film

called that, which is the story of street kids enacting  the Romeo-and-Juliet

theme to a tragic conclusion, and the novel as it happens tells that

story--the story of Mayo,  Julie, Adam, Angel, and Reno--against a background

of the complex workings  of  a modern professional movie production.  

Included in those "complex workings" is the revival of a high school

friendship between the author of the screenplay and one of the financial

backers of the film--and this is a story of cooperation between Jew and

Gentile begun when the participants were still in high school.

So the novel has the street kids  and also the movie people, from the

Producer, Sam Willavoy, to the actors and directors--and the writer, who is

responsible for it all.

About the Author

Edward Loomis, author of HEROIC SPAIN, has been engaged with Spanish and Spanish-American literature and culture during the last seven years, concentrating on Rubén Darío and Antonio Machado, and the poems collected here come out of that effort. The idea of this book is that these poets were leaders in the Hispanic civilization, and were accepted as such. Their work shows some of the strengths of that civilization, decadent as they found it which is successful now partly because of them, and their work lives on as privileged by their talent and dedication.