Brian Chidester is a staff editor for Yahoo.com and the
co-editor of Dumb Angel #4: All Summer Long. He has been a segment
producer for documentaries by the BBC, PBS, Showtime, and the Carl
Wilson Foundation.
Domenic Priore is the author of Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock
'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood, Beatsville (with Martin
McIntosh), and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece.
He has written documentaries for Paramount Pictures Inc. and
American Movie Classics (AMC).
Kathy Zuckerman is the real life inspiration for the
fictional character of Franzie "Gidget" Lawrence from the 1957
novel, Gidget, written by her father Frederick Kohner. She was
named No. 7 in Surfer Magazine's 25 Most Influential People in
Surfing. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
Billy Al Bengston is an American artist and sculptor who
lives and works in Venice, California. His work is found in many
public and private collections, including the Centre Georges
Pompidou (Paris), LACMA, MOCA (Los Angeles), MOMA (New York),
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Corcoran Gallery of
Art (Washington, D.C.), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New
York). Less famously, he is/was the original "Moondoggie."
"The visuals are superb. Record sleeves, vintage paperbacks and kooky ephemera like printed instructions for the Surfer's Stomp dance liven up the pages . . . a nostalgic treasure-trove." "--Variety"
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