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Last night's crowded (and reportedly under-catered) LA.com party was not the final event to be held in the once-grand, but long-abandoned Perino's after all. Collage Dance Theatre, the troupe that performed at the Ambassador Hotel, in the L.A. River and other locales around town, is putting on "A Hunger Artist" inside the old Wilshire Boulevard dining room designed by Paul Williams before it is demolished for apartments. Shows are April 2-4 and the website advises "Please wear pink."
* And: Cecilia Rasmussen's "Then and Now" column in Sunday's L.A. Times is about the restaurant and its founder, Alexander Perino. It includes the surprise tidbit that the interior was gutted in a 1954 fire and redesigned with the pink (some call it peach) motif that most fans remember.
Drove by it today and saw a film crew shooting inside. Perino's is sure getting some good use before its (unfortunate) destruction.
Posted by: Mike at March 26, 2004 03:16 PMWhen I was there for an L.A. Conservancy deal a month or so ago, some guys driving by saw the doors open and came in to volunteer as extras. They just assumed filming was going on.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at March 28, 2004 10:57 PM
of LA Observed
The dining room was used by NBC's Fear Factor show not long ago, as the setting where the contestants were shown eating live snails, shells and all. Bleech!
Posted by: Todd at March 26, 2004 01:10 PM