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HTML: The definitiveand salacioushistory of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.
Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywoods most storied hotel. Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild Since 1929, Hollywoods brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months. But despite its mythic reputation, much of what has happened inside the Chateaus walls has eluded the public eyeuntil now. With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths to which the hotel has been a party. Vivid, salacious, and richly informed, The Castle on Sunset is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel. … (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. They say that Los Angeles doesn't treasure its past. (Introduction) Before there was a Chateau Marmont, before there were limos to pack, bags to schlep, parties to throw, secrets to keep, paparazzi to elude, and divorces, bacchanals, sunburns, and career misteps to recover from, before there was a Sunset Strip or even a Hollywood, there were onions and pointsettias and avocados growing on hillsides above a dirt road, and there were speculators and pioneers and dreamers imagining something great that no-one else could see. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. People come and go from hotels all day every day for weeks, months, years. But a great hotel gives the impression of always being there, of having always been there, of being there forevermore. One of the great aspects of the Chateau today is that it connects people to the past, to simpler, grander, brighter, perhaps naughtier times. But that, like so much of what passes for reality in Hollywood, is illusory. Chateau Marmont is made of stone, steel, wood, glass, and iron, not “aura” or “mystique” or “je ne sais quoi.” And to the extent it possesses any of those characteristics, it has accrued them through hard work, dodgy times, lucky breaks, quirks of history, and dashes of wildness, recklessness, determination, endurance, and happenstance. This is the story of all that. Such was her reputation, on-screen and off-, that when she met the English countess Margot Asquith at a dinner party and kept pronouncing her new acquaintance’s name with a final t sound—“MarGOT”—the older woman felt entitled to reply, “No, Jean, the ‘T’ is silent, like in Harlow.” Understanding that Hollywood is essentially a town of the walking dead, she later wrote, “You can’t tear down places like the Garden of Allah and just expect them to cease. All that Hollywoodness has to go somewhere.” And she knew just what happened to it: “In the end it took refuge in the Chateau….The ghosts and furies from Alla Nazimova’s garden just wafted across Sunset.” Kookie brought big audiences to the series and new customers to Dino’s Lodge, which thrived, even though management inevitably disappointed tourists by telling them their cars would have to be parked by somebody who actually existed. Writer Eve Babitz, so sharp in describing the hotel as it was in the sixties and seventies, quipped, “The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.” That was meant as a note of affection; she felt comfortable in a place where she was among “the kind of people who like to spill things, things like wine, blood, whiskey, cocaine, ashes, and bodily fluids.” But she recognized, too, that the condition of the place had become a flaw, not an amenity: “So little care had gone into maintaining it that even people who liked seedy hotels thought it was too much. Even people who wanted to feel depressed started staying away.” Even Eve Babitz, who relished the Chateau’s decrepitude, came around. “If the romantic depressiveness of the hotel is lost, I have to rise above my nostalgic despair and be glad,” she said. “Except for not wanting to kill myself when I walk into the room, the Chateau feeling is the same as ever. Only cleaner. It’s as though the Chateau had died and gone to heaven.” Across Sunset Boulevard from the Chateau, where the Garden of Allah once stood, developers were proposing a five-building, 330,000-square-foot complex designed by architect Frank Gehry in his signature wavy-metal style that would include approximately 250 units of housing and 60,000 square feet of retail space. In April 2017, their plans were put on hold, however, for the most ironic of reasons: The previous year, the Lytton Savings building, which stood on the grounds that had once housed the Garden of Allah, was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources. | |
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HTML:The definitiveand salacioushistory of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.
Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywoods most storied hotel. Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild
Since 1929, Hollywoods brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months.
But despite its mythic reputation, much of what has happened inside the Chateaus walls has eluded the public eyeuntil now. With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths to which the hotel has been a party. Vivid, salacious, and richly informed, The Castle on Sunset is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold |
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Interesting history of a place and how it did and did not change as Hollywood and it’s inhabitants did. Glad that the Belushi section was minimal. Enjoyed tidbits about Groucho , Duke Ellington and e en some famed people I’d never heard of. (