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Pianist David Wales and his merry band of New Orleans French Quarter entertainers take their successful musical to Hollywood where a film adaptation proves as controversial and difficult at it was on Broadway. David is saddled with a screen writing team who attempt to destroy the musical by morphing it into past stereotypical film plots and contemporary sensational themes. The professional schism between David and Dimitri widens as Dimitri opens his new marionette show at Finnochios in San Francisco, and female impersonator Princess Pocahontas attempts to act as peacemaker while also trying to keep her older alcoholic husband from self destructing. David, Julienne, and Aurora continue their menage a trois in exotic locales such as Malibu, Matzatlan, and Jamaica, West Indies, while the New Orleans contingent cruise and schmooze with film celebrities of the day including Steve Allen, Noel Coward, Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Anna Magnanni, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rosselini, Dorothy Lamour, Ed Nelson, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, Richmond Barthe, and others. In the decade covered by the trilogy, some characters enter and exit the mortal realm, and some teeter on the brink. William Karl Thomas spent twenty years in Hollywood as a screen writer, cinematographer, and public relations executive, which enables him to paint the people and places of Hollywood and other exotic locales with the detailed knowledge of first hand experience and a love of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1950's and 1960's. His earlier career as a New Orleans French Quarter cocktail pianist is reflected in the detail of the landmark restaurants and nightclubs of that era. If you know or love New Orleans French Quarter, Manhattan’s Broadway theater district, and/or Hollywood’s gourmet restaurants and Malibu celebrity enclave, you’ll love this torrid twisted trilogy of people to whom sex, glamour, and showbiz intrigue are the breath of life.