LA Observed: Double deal for David Rensin

Double deal for David Rensin

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The author of The Mailroom and the forthcoming The Little Stuff Matters Most (with Bernie Brillstein) has had a good week. Rensin's latest project All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora sold twice: the book to William Morrow and the film rights to Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions, for a film to star diCaprio with D. V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity) adapting. The agents doing the deeds were Brian DeFiore at DeFiore and Company and, for the film rights, Rob Carlson at William Morris. All via Publishers Lunch, which also reports the sale of Erich Krauss's Wall of Flame: A Fire Crew's Historic Battle to Save Southern California, about the Lassen Hotshots, sold to Wiley.

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Just a quick note to say congratulations to Sara Rimensnyder, who helped Rensin with the Miki Dora book (and some other projects, too, I think)...

I know some LAO readers are FOS (Friends of Sara)...

Posted by: Tim DeRoche at May 17, 2004 11:52 PM

For more on the increasingly prescient Dora, scope out Domenic Priore's cultural reckoning at the Catalog of Cool online.

Posted by: Kim Cooper at May 18, 2004 08:11 AM

Thanks Tim, but really, that's like congratulating the man who trims Salvador Dali's moustache on his great genius. I'm just a hired hand in the House of Rensin. All the congrats go to David. And to Dora, I suppose, for being such a badass mofo.
If David starts getting cocky, courting starlets or filching wallets at social events, excuse him, he's just channeling his subj so as to bring a better book to the people.

Posted by: Sara Rimensnyder at May 18, 2004 08:56 AM

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