Feast of San Gennaro Los Angeles Italian Festival

Jimmy Kimmel (whose mom is Italian), Doug DeLuca, Co-Executive Producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and a group of notable Italian Americans from New York organized the first Feast of San Gennaro in Hollywood in a parking lot across from the Capitol Records building in 2002. Since this is Hollywood, it's not surprising that Italian American celebrities like Tony Danza, Tommy Lasorda, Dom DeLuise, Joe Mantegna, Tony Orlando, Deana Martin and Gianni Russo have all been involved in the event. The Feast was so successful, it moved in 2004 to a larger venue filling the street behind the Grove shopping complex near the Los Angeles Farmers Market. In 2006 it returned to Hollywood to Highland and Hawthorne just a block south of Hollywood Blvd. This is next to Hollywood High School on the block behind the Disney Entertainment Center where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is taped. The space is double the size they had at the Grove and the festival sometimes includes events inside the Hollywood High School Auditorium next door.