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Bunking Up at a Hollywood Legend in Los Angeles
You all know the script – Led Zep roaring through the lobby on their Harleys; Jean Harlow bunking up with Clark Gable; Jim Morrison swinging from the rooftop drainpipes; Johnny Depp and Kate Moss romping in every room – why not write, direct, and star in your own off-screen version? Chateau Marmont has a reputation for hard-partying and non-stop glamor. Hollywood's take on French aristocratic excess, its idiosyncratic pseudo-Norman architecture shines out across LA from high in the hills like a Disney castle gone bad; its turrets and towers a siren call to playboys and their perfectly coiffed muses. Producer Harry Cohn advised, "If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont" and, taking him up on it, poor John Belushi ODed on the excess here, dying after shooting up repeatedly in one of the bungalows. But if you exercise just a modicum of restraint, Chateau Marmont still feels like a hip hideaway that provides an antidote to the over-designed tendencies seen in Tinseltown.
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