Smith's Tuesday column -- including, even more embarrassingly, the truncated version found in the L.A. Times -- featured this review of last week's LA.com launch party:
SPEAKING OF things L.A., there was a recent event that very much mixed the old and new of Hollywood culture. A young woman named Lynda Keeler runs LA.com, which is said to be the most fabulous online site about all things Los Angeles.
The party to launch the site was held at Perino's, at 4101 Wilshire Blvd. This was one of the lush, glamorous star-spotting eateries during Hollywood's golden age. (Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford had a great scene in "Mommie Dearest" barking "Perino's is my place!")
Well, that Internet party was the last gasp for Perino's. The very next day, bulldozers flattened the restaurant.
I guess LA.com can cross Perino's off its list of places to go in Hollywood.
One problem: Perino's still lives (for now)! As a matter of fact, I drove by it tonight.
And bulldozers flattening the restaurant would sure be news to the Collage Dance Theatre, which is staging the performance "A Hunger Artist" at Perino's this weekend.
(And I think we can be safe in assuming that LA.com doesn't need to cross Perino's off any list -- the restaurant has been closed, except for private parties and filming, for over a decade.)
Check out cool shots of Perino's here, and learn about the unfortunate plan to replace the building with apartments here.
Also, L.A. Observed talks about the impending death of Perino's -- and its one last hurrah, the Collage Dance Theatre event -- here, and points to this past Sunday's L.A. Times "Here and Now" column devoted to the history of Perino's restaurant.
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