William Lucien ''Billy'' Keen Jr., who launched the popular Southern-themed restaurant Lulu's on South Beach at the dawn of the area's rebirth -- a fun-loving party planner who threw spectacular Halloween benefits, sold real estate and believed that banana pudding could cure any bad mood -- has died at 51.
His youngest sister, Renee Barrera, said Keen succumbed to bladder cancer at South Miami Hospital on June 26 after ''a long, hard fight'' for seven years.
Keen and business partner Gabi Hakman opened Lulu's at 1053 Washington Ave., in 1990. A Miami Herald item said it would offer 'blues, barbecue and Elvis . . . three things food and rock 'n' roll fans can look forward to . . . Starters like corn and okra fritters or smoked catfish salad will go for $3 to $4.''
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