Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ. In the ’90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood. Often pegged as a “man of mystery,” Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998—one that is finally revealed in KORLA.

Korla

Larry Wessel's Palace of Wonders is a Feature-Length Documentary (Over 20 Years in the Making) and I have a Strong Feeling that it is The Best Film I have Ever Made!. Inspired by Anton Szandor LaVey's Beautiful Recitation of the poem "Vagabond's House" by Don Blanding, P.O.W.'s Star-Studded Cast includes Korla Pandit, Coop, Dick DeBartolo, The Musée Mécanique, John Wickett and His Museum of Exotica, Sparks and DEVO's Drummer David Kendrick, Jason Mecier, Gidget Gein, Mitch Miller, Rosemary's Billygoat, David Apocalypse, Diego Domingo, Leonard Knight and His Salvation Mountain, "The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque" Dixie Evans, Andy Warhol Superstar Louis Waldon, Charles Bukowski Photographer Michael Montfort, Alex Schaefer, Mark McCloud and his Museum of Illegal Images, The Vagabond and Many More Surprise Guests!.