Chateau Marmont Hotel
The Chateau Marmont is an on Sunset Boulevard in the district of Hollywood of Los Angeles located hotel , which in 1929 by Arnold A. Weitzman and William Douglas Lee after the model of Amboise Castle in the French Loire Valley was built. It is right on the border with the neighboring city of West Hollywood . The current owner of the hotel is André Balazs Properties. It also became known through events from the lives of various rock stars and actors:
- James Dean jumped through a window to audition for his future role in ... Because They Don't Know What They Do (1955).
- In August 1965, the actress Christiane Schmidtmer met her future partner, the polyglot language teacher Michel Thomas , here.
- After the American rock musician Jim Morrison ( The Doors ) fell from the roof of a two-story bungalow in the "Chateau" in January 1971, he spoke of having consumed the eighth of his nine lives.
- The members of the rock band Led Zeppelin crossed the hotel lobby on motorbikes.
- On March 5, 1982, actor, comedian and musician John Belushi died in bungalow 3 of the hotel from an overdose of a cocaine-heroin mixture.
- According to his own statements, the skateboarder and musician Chad Muska lived in the "Chateau" for a year.
- The photographer Helmut Newton had a fatal accident in his car on January 23, 2004 when he left the hotel and hit a wall.
- Pop singer Britney Spears was banned from the house after smearing food on her face in the hotel restaurant.
- Actress Lindsay Lohan was banned from the house after failing to pay $ 46,000 bills.
Regular hotel guests included the journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson , the actors Errol Flynn , Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum, as well as numerous other greats in the US film business.
The Chateau Marmont in art and culture
The Chateau Marmont has been widely recognized in literature, film and music for its fame and importance. The hotel served as the backdrop in Sofia Coppola's film Somewhere . The hotel also plays an important role in Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre's autobiographical novel Panikherz , which the author largely wrote there.
In the detective novel The Adversary by Michael Connelly , George Irving, son of Councilor Irvin Irving, throws himself from the balcony of room 79 of the hotel. Harry Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner Chu are investigating whether it is a murder or a suicide. Bosch becomes deeply involved in political intrigues surrounding the LAPD.
In 2017 the Canadian pianist Chilly Gonzales and the British singer Jarvis Cocker ( Pulp ) released Room 29, a song cycle about a room in the Chateau Marmont Hotel. The hotel will also u. a. referenced by Angus and Julia Stone in their song Chateau and by Father John Misty in Chateau Lobby # 4 (In C for Two Virgins) .
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- ↑ Torsten Meyer, Journey through the City of Angels, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-2083-2
- ↑ goliath.ecnext.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 1, 2006: Where the! # [cent] k is the muska ?!
- ↑ web.de ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of September 17, 2007: "Spears is banned from entering the Chateau Marmont"
- ↑ [1] of August 30, 2012: "Lindsay Lohan is banned from staying in a luxury hotel"
- ↑ Florian Illies: "Panikherz": The prodigal son . In: The time . April 2, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Marie Schmidt : The idyll of desperation. In: Die Zeit from March 23, 2017, p. 45.
- ^ Angus & Julia Stone - Chateau. Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ The Gospel of Father John Misty . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
Coordinates: 34 ° 5 '53.8 " N , 118 ° 22' 6.3" W.