Summer With Morrison

by Dennis C. Jakob

Overview

Summer with Morrison, a book by Dennis C. Jakob, explores the time in the singer’s life from film school at UCLA to the first stages of his fame. Jakob tells the story from a unique perspective, for he was Morrison’s roommate and fellow filmmaker for most of this period.

The book covers Morrison’s early relationship with the mysterious Mary Werbelow, his night-stalking forays into the dark corners of Venice, CA, his trips through Big Sur and down through Mexico, and covers the philosophical and literary influences that later surfaced in his music.


Summer with Morrison includes twenty-five never-before-seen photographs taken by the author, and a forward by respected LA poet (and Morrison’s fellow film-student) Michael C Ford.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013643772
Publisher:	Ion Drive Publishing
Publication date:	11/04/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	377 KB

About the Author

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 Coppola at Zoetrope culminating in his choice assignment as
one of the principal editors on the 1979 movie: Apocalypse Now.
Interestingly, it was D.C. Jakob who advised Coppola to use
Joseph Conrad’s novel "Heart Of Darkness" as a template for the
basic Apocalypse Now story line.
That assignment was preceded by being invited by Bobby
Darin to be a film cutter on his production entitled "The Dealer,"
the undertaking of which found Dennis literally cutting film in
Sandra Dee’s kitchen.
In the ensuing decades, Jakob has been involved in a hermetically
sealed career which has produced, not only the autobiographic tome
you now hold, but two novels: "The Coast Watchers" and "The Sand Painter;"
plus the thoroughly enchanting memoir: "Going to Goethe" as well as two
evocative screenplays: a noir detective story Stella and the vicious and
violent Unknown Soldier.
He currently resides in Northern California’s Napa Valley.