Author D.J. Waldie teamed with actress Diane Keaton to create a lovely new book, California Romantica. The LAT’s Thomas Curwen describes the effort as “the culmination of a lifelong obsession for Keaton and nearly two years of study for Waldie…

“Their collaboration is a love affair — in words and in pictures — with Spanish Revival architecture in Southern California.

“If the partnership between this actor and this author seems a little unlikely — she with her Hollywood credits, her ‘Annie Hall’ accolades and long association with mansions such as these, and he with his job as public information officer with Lakewood, his memoir ‘Holy Land’ and his modest life in the 957-square-foot home his parents purchased more than 50 years ago — just get them talking, and the differences disappear.”

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Tonight: Keaton and Waldie will be discussing and signing California Romanica at 7 pm at Book Soup in West Hollywood.