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Summer with Morrison: The Early Life and Times of James Douglas Morrison
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By Dennis C. Jakob
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Dennis Jakob met Jim Morrison in 1964, they becoming fast friends and eventually college room mates. This book details some of the many experiences they had together just prior to and during Jim's early fame with The Doors, including several conversations between them which reveal many of Jim's early philosophies and attitudes. Included
Dennis C. Jakob was born in Irvington New Jersey. Moving to Southern California, he attended elementary and high schools in Pasadena, later, receiving his BA from the motion picture division of Theatre Arts at UCLA, where his 1st novel The Undiscovered Country earned first honorable mention in the Samuel Goldwyn literary competition. Graduate studies in the UCLA School Of Cinema Arts was followed by seminal recognition for his first film project: The Invaders. After sporadic mentoring experience with the likes of Arthur Ripley, Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola, his first film editing assignments were for the Corman Company. They included montage sequences in The Trip, Devil's Angels and The Young Racers. He began working as a story editor and creative consultant for Copp
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