The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook

Andre Balazs (Ed.); Richard Pandiscio (Designed by)

Editorial: Universe Publishing; Rizzoli, NY • 1996

• En inglés / In English. - The ultimate insider’s guide to Hollywood past and present – an unprecendented and never-before-seen literary and visual anthology, this is the only book on Hollywood you’ll ever need to read. If the walls could talk, this would be the great story of Hollywood. Through the lens of the legendary Chateau Marmont, Hollywood’s hippest and hottest haunt, comes an extraordinary, glamorous, and fierce history and exquisite literary collection baring the stars, the landscape, and the ever-changing mood of America’s most absorbing town as narrated by legends including William Faulkner, Eve Babitz, Dominick Dunne, Gore Vidal, Jay McInerney, and many others. Rare and original texts, heart-stopping photography—including images by Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sofia Coppola, and Bruce Weber—and decades of gossip and anecdotes take the reader from film to rock and roll, from scandals to masterpieces, from starlets to moguls, and from studios to bungalows in an unprecedented tour of Hollywood from the Golden Age to this morning’s wake-up call. A beloved classic, Hollywood Handbook’s cult is summarized best by Jarvis Cocker: “I’ve been carrying this book around for 20 years. Things happen at Chateau Marmont. Mythical, glamourous, sexy, wonderful, tragic things . . .” About The Author The editor of this volume,?hotelier André Balazs,?is responsible?for some of the most iconic hotels in the world, including?The Mercer, The Standard hotels,?and Chiltern Firehouse.?Balazs’s first hotel was?the Chateau Marmont,?which he saved from demolition in 1990 and has been restoring ever since. Balazs’s talents?as a thinker, director, social networker, and innovator imbue his hotels with cultlike status. Described both as a global tastemaker and design-obsessive, Balazs makes you believe that—here, tonight, at this moment—anything is possible. The Chateau Marmont opened in 1929 and has since been patronised by such Hollywood luminaries as Hedy Lamarr, Jean Harlow, Billy Wilder, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, John Belushi and Quentin Tarantino. Countless scripts and novels have been written and rendezvous made at the Chateau. It has often been said of the Chateau, ‘If only the walls could talk.’ Well now they have. The Chateau Marmont’s guide to Hollywood contains original and little-known texts from Hollywood’s great writers and sumptuous photos of Hollywood’s top stars and the great hotspots; as well as quotes, facts, star maps, cameos and charts tell who’s slept with whom, who lives where, who said what, and where it’s all at. From glamour to reality, from film to rock’n’roll, from gossip to insight, from starlets to moguls, from scandals to masterpieces, this book bares all. The Hollywood Handbook is the real Hollywood as few are privileged to see but all want to know.