“The Chateau is a fluke”: Scott Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont,” L.A. Weekly, April 8–14, 1983, 13.
“You can have”: Chris Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, Sept. 14, 1986.
“Just check in”: Anthony Haden-Guest, “Castle Kitsch,” Los Angeles Times West Magazine, Sept. 12, 1971, 20.
“The Chateau is the only cheap”: Ibid., 21.
“an architect may supervise”: “Court Favors Architect,” Architect and Engineer, Oct. 1930, 111.
“Never before in the history”: Myrna Nye, “Social Affair Makes History,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 1929.
“gentlemen judges and their wives”: Alma Whitaker, “Sugar and Spice,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 20, 1929.
“The place had more doors”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 66.
“There were rooms, cubbyholes”: Sam Wasson, “Chateau Marmont Celebrates 85 Years,” Los Angeles Confidential, Feb. 3, 2014.
“During the past weeks”: “Apartments Justify Faith,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1932.
“was why the hotel became”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“I heard the other girls”: Ohio Statesman Journal, undated clipping, New York Public Library.
“I could find my way”: Gardner Bradford, “When Ann Little Got to the Peak…She Stepped Up!,” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1933, 5.
“I enjoy feats of horsemanship”: “Some Preferences of Ann Little, Actress,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18, 1918.
“I do not like sentences”: Ibid.
“The tough tenants”: Bradford, “When Ann Little Got to the Peak,” 20.
“Everyone was high class”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 66.
“I had just come downstairs”: Ibid., 34.
“My picture experience”: Bradford, “When Ann Little Got to the Peak,” 20.
“What are you doing here?”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 37.
“fingering the keys”: Ibid., 239.
“that nice German”: Alma Whitaker, “Sugar and Spice,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 11, 1932.
“Rachmaninoff has the next”: William Overend, “From Poinsettias to Punk: A History of the Sunset Strip,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 1981.
“It tells people where we are”: Bob Bishop, “Where WeHo’s Streets Got Their Names: Part 2,” www.wehoville.com, July 6, 2016.
“The Trocadero was probably”: Overend, “From Poinsettias to Punk.”
“It was like a duty”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“I’d take over mostly sandwiches”: Graham, Garden of Allah, 84.
“Oh heavens no!”: Tia Gindick, “Reaping Memories of a Heyday,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 1977.
“I know it’s trite”: Stenn, Bombshell, 138.
“She was like a little white rose”: Barbara Wilkins, “Chateau—Last Elegance on the Strip,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 1967.
“call[ing] him harsh names”: “Bacon Files Divorce Action,” Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 30, 1935.
“break every bone”: “Ruby Bacon Divorced,” Los Angeles Examiner, Dec. 19, 1935.
“Harry really worried”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 71.
“It was so very private”: Ibid., 74.
“only two friends”: Ibid., 72.
“She was Lady Maud”: Sperber and Lax, Bogart, 96.
“She died as she had lived”: Ibid., 138.
“They were such nice people”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 31.
“There will be nets”: Joe Bullmore, “No Rest for the Wicket: Hollywood Cricket Club,” Rake, Jan. 2017.
“He stayed in his room”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 53.
“I forgot to notify”: Lally, Wilder Times, 68.
“I could not sleep”: Zolotow, Billy Wilder in Hollywood, 60.
“une idée poetique”: Jacobs, Christmas in July, 179.
“the center of the Hollywood Resistance”: Ibid., 245.
“I am very much afraid”: Ibid., 391.
“fully improved estate”: “Chateau Marmont in Hollywood Sold,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1942.
“It seemed cold”: Karin and Margo Brettauer, author interview.
“a navel filled with sweat”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 278.
“My father always made us”: Karin and Margo Brettauer, author interview.
“They must have meant”: Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company, 139.
“So they pick up the phone”: Sam Wasson, “Hotel California,” Angeleno, Jan. 2011.
“Arnaz was a semipermanent resident”: Sanders and Gilbert, Desilu, 182.
“It was very important in those days”: Paul Hendrickson, “The Newmans: Fast Eddie and Eve in Paradise,” Washington Post, Dec. 6, 1992.
“The Chateau is where all New Yorkers stay”: Haden-Guest, “Castle Kitsch,” 19.
“I was sure my place”: Charles Champlin, “Jack Lemmon: It Should Happen to You,” Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1984.
“If there had been an Olympic sex team”: Winters, Shelley II, 103.
“I started to scream”: Ibid., 192.
“For the rest of the filming”: Ibid., 193.
“I didn’t like her very much”: Ray, I Was Interrupted, 173.
“He liked the Marmont”: Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray, 236.
“They had this big write-up”: Ibid., 277.
“I want to make a film that I love”: McGilligan, Nicholas Ray, 263.
“I drove up to Nick’s”: Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray, 257.
“Are you middle-aged?”: Ray, I Was Interrupted, 109.
“Oh, for God’s sake, Dennis!”: Folsom, Hopper, 39.
“Jimmy was peculiarly silent”: Ray, I Was Interrupted, 110.
“enthroned,” as Stern remembered: McGilligan, Nicholas Ray, 276.
“I’d like to fuck you”: Winkler, Dennis Hopper, 26.
“I just kept repeating the number”: Lambert, Natalie Wood, 90.
“They called me a goddamn juvenile delinquent”: Winkler, Dennis Hopper, 30.
“I went to Nick Ray’s hotel”: Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray, 242.
“rather openly having an affair”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 278.
“See, that’s your problem”: Winkler, Dennis Hopper, 32.
“We had one rehearsal”: Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray, 260.
remembered bringing many “tricks”: Bowers, Full Service, 218.
“That was the center of the universe”: Winecoff, Split Image, 103.
“Who’ve you got who’s different?”: Bowers, Full Service, 217.
“I’d go take a dip”: Hunter, author interview.
“Despite its prominence”: Hunter, Tab Hunter Confidential, 130.
“tall and skinny”: Ibid.
“But I love him!”: Winecoff, Split Image, 124.
“Nothing,” Hunter recalled: Hunter, Tab Hunter Confidential, 131.
“And the New York actors”: Hunter, author interview.
“He was very circumspect”: Winecoff, Split Image, 117.
“eating ice cream”: Hedda Hopper, “Hudson Takes on Another Comedy,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1964.
“I introduced him”: Parini, Empire of Self, 120.
“Life at the Chateau Marmont”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 394.
“We would meet Paul and Joanne”: Parini, Empire of Self, 119–20.
“Gore liked clean-cut guys”: Ibid., 120.
“One significant thing”: Vidal, Snapshots in History’s Glare, 152.
“He sees what he thinks”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 412.
“a beautiful boy”: Tim Teeman, “How Gay Was Gore Vidal?,” Daily Beast, July 31, 2013.
“the outsize floozie”: Brooks Atkinson, “Critic at Large: In Hollywood the Best and Worst Coexist Without Being Aware of Each Other,” New York Times, Feb. 14, 1964.
“It’s the whore Hollywood!”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 188.
“He pointed to the window”: Rhonda Koenig, “Checking In to Limbo,” Independent (London), Nov. 25, 2004.
“There he was,” he said: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“She has not lost any of her fingers”: Atkinson, “Critic at Large: In Hollywood the Best and Worst Coexist Without Being Aware of Each Other.”
“She revolves slowly”: Cheever, Stories of John Cheever, 583.
“Oh, God,” he remembered: Peabody and Ebersole, Conversations with Gore Vidal, 71.
“to brighten my hotel rooms”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 198.
“My heart lurched”: Brad Darrach, “My Romance with Marilyn Monroe,” People, July 2, 1984.
“Had not someone in a nearby room”: Stine, Mother Goddamn, 284.
“[She] said she’d never be back”: Wilkins, “Chateau—Last Elegance on the Strip.”
“Go to the elevator”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 214.
“He’d get up late”: Miller, Martin Ritt, 170.
“Duke concocted his arrangement”: Irvine Townsend, liner notes, Swinging Suites, 1961.
“I just imagine that I’m the ball”: Gottlieb, Reading Jazz, 425.
“in a swell-elegant hotel”: A. S. Young, “The Big Beat,” Los Angeles Sentinel, June 20, 1960.
“She isn’t here, motherfucker”: Szwed, So What, 243.
“I speak about this with pain”: Murray Schumach, “Poitier Says Bias Exists on Coast,” New York Times, Aug. 19, 1960.
“we both lost”: Poitier, This Life, 228.
“There was definitely a feeling”: Priore, Riot on Sunset Strip, 37.
“Wine and beer bottles”: Gilmore, Laid Bare, 154–55.
“I made several trips”: Medina, Laid Back in Hollywood, 93.
“to be clever around men”: Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, 99.
“You can’t tear down places”: Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company, 140.
“In the end it took refuge”: Ibid., 161.
“I don’t think he had too many”: Karin and Margo Brettauer, author interview.
“completely neglectful of his family”: “Wife Granted Divorce and Eventual $600,175,” Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1965.
“We added some touches”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 211.
“The value of the homes above the Strip”: Overend, “From Poinsettias to Punk.”
“It was almost impossible to travel”: William Overend, “When the Sun Set on the Strip,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1981.
“I once stayed next door”: Anthony Haden-Guest, “Heartbreak Hotel,” Mode, Oct./Nov. 1994.
“We’d all sit around the edge of the bed”: Kubernik, Canyon of Dreams, 209.
“if they had, out they’d have gone”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 220.
“For some reason”: Gary Baum and Michael Walker, “Sunset Marquis: Secrets of Rock-n-Roll’s Wild Hotel,” Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 8, 2013.
“The Chateau Marmont was cool”: Ibid.
“I had to move here”: Dan Knapp, “Morrison’s Last Days in L.A.: Hope for the Future,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1971.
“got up on the roof”: Ibid.
“He never used to get hurt”: Densmore, Riders on the Storm, 258.
“He looked very bizarre”: Wilkins, “Chateau—Last Elegance on the Strip.”
“It’s not a pleasant thing”: Ken Reich, “Teen-Agers and Crime Ply the Sunset Strip,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 1966.
“ ‘Riot’ is a ridiculous name”: Cecilia Rasmussen, “Closing of Club Ignited the ‘Sunset Strip Riots,’ ” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 5, 2007.
193 “The peasants are revolting”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 266.
194 “It was nice spending the Riots in a penthouse”: Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, 144.
“I think they want to win”: Dave Felton, “Hippies Pout, Politicians Cheer as Pandora’s Box Is Wrecked,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 1967.
“This is a sad town”: Haden-Guest, “Castle Kitsch,” 19.
“How sorry I am”: Weaver, Glad Tidings, 200.
“From where I sit”: Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, 8.
“Three in the morning”: Ibid., 178.
“For me,” Myra writes: Ibid., 77.
“much too much”: Ibid., 10.
“resembles an upside-down two-leaf clover”: Ibid., 8.
“a tired, smirking elephant”: Howard Thompson, “ ‘Myra Breckinridge’ Unveiled on Screen,” New York Times, June 25, 1970.
“both dirtier and more aberrant”: Charles Champlin, “ ‘Myra Breckinridge’ Plays on Decadence,” Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1970.
“about as funny as a child molester”: “Some Sort of Nadir,” Time, July 6, 1970.
“I believe he is working”: Peabody and Ebersole, Conversations with Gore Vidal, 71.
“It was very kind of exotic”: Homes, Los Angeles, 28.
“would invite one and all”: Matt Mullen, “Intimate Images of Joan Didion Through the Years,” www.interviewmagazine.com, Oct. 20, 2017.
“I was so aware of people”: Sam Kashner, “The Making of ‘The Graduate,’ ” Vanity Fair, March 2008.
“Sharon loved its rundown appearance”: Polanski, Roman, 268.
“It was a congenially seedy”: Richard Sylbert, “Sunset Roost,” Interview, Oct. 1988.
“It was a pretty cushy deal”: Unterberger, Eight Miles High, 107.
“I think I’ve done everything”: Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont,” 10.
“The only roles being offered”: Roderick Mann, “Cort Gets the Keys to ‘Bates Motel,’ ” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1987.
“I tried to talk to them”: Dana Shapiro, “Deconstructing Harold,” New York Times, Dec. 17, 2211.
“We both at the same time gasped”: Ibid.
“The band were like a little family”: Michael Bonner, “ ‘We Were Like a Little Family’: An Interview with Doug Yule and Moe Tucker About the Velvet Underground,” www.uncut.co.uk, Dec. 5, 2014.
“I was up at four in the morning”: Ibid.
“I went there for a night”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“It was late at night”: McDonough, Shakey, 430.
“OH SHIT,” she remembered: Simon, Boys in the Trees, 251–52.
“You had to know what he was saying”: Shales, author interview.
“Dracula answering the phone”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“the rustle of bats’ wings”: Ibid.
“It was like performance art”: Homes, Los Angeles, 136.
“Alice Cooper look-alike”: Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont,” 15.
“I would never dream of using”: Haden-Guest, “Castle Kitsch.”
“twin…right next door”: Grace Glueck, “Peep Shows and Put-Ons,” New York Times, April 6, 1969.
“One day I was in the elevator”: Nicks, author interview.
“run by eccentrics”: Marian Christy, “Carol Lynley—a Free Spirit,” Boston Globe, Jan. 7, 1973.
“The shower knob came off”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“The only reason anything was off-white”: Babitz, Black Swans, 60.
“the kind of people who like to spill things”: Eve Babitz, “Better Days,” Esquire, Jan. 1992.
“people would come in”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 283.
“started to chain the furniture”: Carol Lynley, “Me and My Chateau,” L.A. Weekly, Aug. 29, 1986.
“You start at the Montecito”: Victor Navasky, “It’s Shabby-Genteel but the Stars Love It,” New York Times, May 5, 1974.
“Folklore is folklore”: “Letters: Pursuing New Travel Records,” New York Times, May 26, 1974.
“The bank was ready to foreclose”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 286.
“Occupancy had never been a problem”: Ibid., 288.
“He fell in love with the place”: Elaine Woo, “Raymond Sarlot, 1924–2014; Investor Restored Chateau Marmont,” Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2014.
“When I came in here”: Art Seidenbaum, “Renaissance of the Marmont,” Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1977.
“Well, they repainted”: Tom Burke, “Can Tuesday Be a ’70s Star?,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 22, 1978.
“Probably the only reason”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“forever popping a button”: Woo, “Raymond Sarlot, 1924–2014.”
“a more enduring urban monument”: Aaron Betsky, “Marlboro Man Billboard Stands as Image of Our Episodic Culture,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 1991.
“My world was in ruins”: Polanski, Roman, 377.
“listen[ing] to some doleful jazz”: Sanford, Polanski, 231.
“I’d crossed the fine line”: Polanski, Roman, 379.
“The judge seemed determined”: Ibid., 400.
“I moved into a bungalow”: James, Glow, 235.
“He stiffed us”: Gaye, Marvin Gaye, My Brother, 105.
“I stayed at the Chateau Marmont”: Roderick Mann, “Bianca’s Living Down Her ‘Frivolous Image,’ ” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 4, 1977.
“We don’t want to go out”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“They don’t walk out here”: Jack Smith, “L.A. Walker Treads Water,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 1970.
“I lived all around”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 281.
“Are you sure you want”: Woodward, Wired, 303.
“He would pace around”: Al Reinert, “Lost in Space,” Texas Monthly, Feb. 1990.
“Sunset Boulevard,” she repeated: Woodward, Wired, 371.
“There has been a slight disturbance”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 294.
“I’m having trouble”: Brillstein, Where Did I Go Right?, 206.
“like a little stuttered giggle”: Ibid., 207.
“It was bedlam”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 294.
“Where’s John?” he asked her: Woodward, Wired, 405.
“It was the first time”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 294.
“as though he had gone to bed”: Ron Harris and Michael Seiler, “Actor John Belushi Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel,” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1982.
“New York people”: Levy, De Niro, 348.
“What people don’t realize”: Hodenfield, “Tales of the Chateau.”
“We need somebody like you”: Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont.”
“The scene was not only depressing”: Brillstein, Where Did I Go Right?, 209.
“It was no longer the same unit”: Sarlot and Basten, Life at the Marmont, 297.
“came to town and looked”: Brillstein, Where Did I Go Right?, 211.
“He painted a portrait”: Shales and Miller, Live from New York, 275.
“Woodward—that cocksucker”: Ibid.
“He made it sound”: Mary A. Fischer, “Author Bob Woodward Trashed a Famous Hollywood Hostelry, Then Had to List It as a Coming Retraction,” People, July 23, 1984.
“Ray had spent so much time”: Woo, “Raymond Sarlot, 1924–2014.”
“It was the author’s opinion”: Fischer, “Author Bob Woodward Trashed a Famous Hollywood Hostelry.”
“The Chateau has a charming”: Ibid.
“tell Feldman who did this”: Feldman, Tell Me How You Love the Picture, 163.
“exceptional….It deals with the themes”: Jack Matthews, “Crowd Jeers, Walks Out on ‘Wired,’ ” Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1989.
“They told me they were putting me up”: George F. Will, “A ‘Catcher’ for the ’80s,” Washington Post, Feb. 27, 1986.
“a small, elderly man”: Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont,” 11.
“It is a place apart”: Quentin Crisp, “Visiting Lotusland,” New York Times, May 16, 1982.
“a back room”: Roderick Mann, “Frank Perry Comes in from Critics’ Cold,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 8, 1985.
“funky—not quite dumpy”: Shales, author interview.
“I remember arriving”: Steven Zeitchik, “A ‘Bizarre’ Music Duet: Cusack, Giamatti Take a Deep Dive into Brian Wilson’s Life,” Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2015.
“I was living by myself”: Kristine McKenna, “On the Rebound with Anthony Michael Hall,” Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1988.
“My wife and I were sitting”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“Happy holidays from everyone”: Rupert Everett, “Unmasked,” Vogue, March 2013.
“If someone spun you”: Jean Nathan, “What’s Up in the Old Hotel?,” New York Times, Aug. 1, 1993.
“I hope you enjoy reading”: Homes, Los Angeles, 38.
“my dorm for 15 years”: Joanne Kaufman, “If the Marmont’s So ‘Seedy,’ Why Is It a Retreat for the Elite?,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 5, 1984.
“Oh, don’t mention the hotel!”: Gordon, Ultimate Hollywood, 120.
“This ain’t rock ’n’ roll”: Overend, “When the Sun Set on the Strip.”
“They wanted to mind-fuck”: Carlos Greer and Ian Mohr, “Jay-Z and Beyoncé Wanted to ‘Mind-Fuck’ VIPs at Secret Oscars Party,” New York Post, March 5, 2018.
“It’s surprisingly closed-minded”: Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Prince Street Prince,” New York, Oct. 31, 2005.
“For my thesis”: Ibid.
“I couldn’t write fast enough”: Julie V. Iovine, “Granting Entry to the Land of the Hip,” New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004.
“how much control one had”: Lucie Young, “He Makes Princely Hotels out of Frogs,” New York Times, July 10, 1997.
“There was a big dichotomy”: Grigoriadis, “Prince Street Prince.”
“The fact he is Hungarian”: Charlotte Edwardes, “Hotelier André Balazs’ Deliciously Naughty Life,” Tatler, June 14, 2017.
“master of taking credit”: Young, “He Makes Princely Hotels out of Frogs.”
“We never really wanted”: Ron Russell, “Hip or Not So Hip,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1989.
“It felt like a very neglected”: Janelle Brown, “The Chateau Marmont Is Ready for Its Close-Up,” New York Times, Dec. 3, 2010.
“A lot of people hated”: Haden-Guest, “Heartbreak Hotel.”
“The full weight”: Nathan, “What’s Up in the Old Hotel?”
“It was not initially clear”: Michael Kaplan, “Resurrecting the Marmont,” Graphis, Jan./Feb. 1996.
“Things from different eras”: Ibid.
“We scoured archives”: Haden-Guest, “Heartbreak Hotel.”
“It was important not to be”: Helaine Olen, “Battle of the Hollywood Hideaways Pits a Legend Against Luxury,” New York Times, Nov. 10, 1996.
“I don’t think he has”: Young, “He Makes Princely Hotels out of Frogs.”
“We put ourselves into the minds”: Glynis Costin, “Hollywood Love Nest,” Elle Decor, April/May 1995.
“It’s not a real past”: Young, “He Makes Princely Hotels out of Frogs.”
“To me, the greatest sign”: Kaplan, “Resurrecting the Marmont.”
“So little has been changed”: Babitz, “Better Days.”
“I can’t tell you”: Nathan, “What’s Up in the Old Hotel?”
“If the romantic depressiveness”: Babitz, “Better Days.”
“Oh no! I’ve lost”: Nathan, “What’s Up in the Old Hotel?”
“ ‘Nobody’s going to believe’ ”: Babitz, Black Swans, 82.
“When they first ran”: Kaplan, “Resurrecting the Marmont.”
“He admires artists”: Edwardes, “Hotelier André Balazs’ Deliciously Naughty Life.”
“I think a lot of people”: David Wharton, “Poetry Books a Room at the Chateau,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 29, 1991.
“Ridiculous! People come here”: Anthony Haden-Guest, “Castle Babylon, Hollywood,” Independent Magazine, July 16, 1994.
“I lived, worked, and conceived”: Busby, “Tales of the Chateau Marmont.”
“The grand, mysterious house”: Wagner, author interview.
“Harvey was in bed”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“as if a wonderful party”: Balazs, Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook, 227.
“One of my earliest memories”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“Norma Desmond’s living room”: Tony Castro, “Celebrity Crime Reporter Inspired by Own Tragedy,” New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 2007.
“I was spirited into a back office”: Balazs, Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook, 227.
“I did not do that smart thing”: Steve Proffitt, “John Gregory Dunne and Dominick Dunne: Experiencing L.A. Through the Eyes of the Writer,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30, 1994.
“Judith Krantz in pants”: Bob Pool, “The O. J. Simpson Trial: Back-Seat Treatment Rankles Many Journalists,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 1995.
“the toast of the town”: Balazs, Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook, 228.
“I was walking out of my room”: Irene Lacher, “Inn Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 1996.
“Dominick was very appalled”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“Something terribly embarrassing”: Balazs, Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook, 229.
“If you made a reservation”: Homes, Los Angeles, 144.
“agents were the worst”: Ibid., 143.
“It’s only sixty-three rooms”: Ibid., 145.
“Oh, we don’t tell anybody”: Navasky, “It’s Shabby-Genteel but the Stars Love It.”
“As a child,” he recalled: Ali Trachta, “Phil Pavel: The Ringmaster of the Chateau Marmont,” L.A. Weekly, May 18, 2012.
“I work hard to keep up”: Maer Roshan, “You: ‘Do You Know Who I Am?’ Him: ‘I Do, and I Don’t Care’: Hosts to the A-List Spill All,” Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 20, 2015.
“Working here was a blast”: Ari Karpel, “On His Terms, Unbranded,” New York Times, July 4, 2010.
“Let’s just say”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“People do things here”: Brown, “Chateau Marmont Is Ready for Its Close-Up.”
“was like winning”: Trachta, “Phil Pavel.”
“three different psychics”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“The first manager”: Homes, Los Angeles, 150.
“The old Marlboro Man”: Steve Garbarino, “Party Pooper?,” New York Times, May 30, 1999.
“When I bought the Chateau”: Michael Kaplan, “Showdown on Sunset,” Los Angeles, March 1998.
“the night even movie stars”: Heidi Siegmund Cuda, “CLUBS: She’ll See You in Her Dreams,” Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2001.
“I would be embarrassed”: Kaplan, “Showdown on Sunset.”
“this organic chaos”: Dave Gardetta, “The Strip,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, Dec. 15, 1996.
“I don’t want to have people”: Rodney Tyler, “Hotel D’Amour,” Sunday Mirror Magazine, Feb. 12, 1989.
“one of the little rooms”: S. Irene Virbila, “Hideaway up on a Hill,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2003.
“at a rather grand country house”: S. Irene Virbila, “Romancing the Castle on the Hill,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 2004.
“Apparently there was somebody”: John Colapinto, “Girl with a Career on Fire,” Elle, June 2004.
“Did I ever have sex”: Mike Sager, “Benny the Troublemaker,” Esquire, April 2005.
“I went home alone”: William Keck, “Scarlett Johansson: Big Dreams but No Puffed-Up Ego,” USA Today, Dec. 31, 2004.
“I used to stay for months”: Luke Leitch, “Hedi Slimane’s ‘Secret Society,’ ” www.businessoffashion.com, Aug. 3, 2017.
“I was meeting with my DP”: Van Sant, author interview.
“I stay on campus at the Chateau a lot”: Jeff Miller, “Anthony Bourdain’s L.A.: A Q-&-A with the Legend,” Thrillist Los Angeles, October 5, 2016.
“There was this very recalcitrant”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“I have this fascination”: Newton, Autobiography, 270.
“His photographs had more”: Mimi Avins, “Helmut Newton, 83: Provocative Master of Fashion Photography,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 24, 2004.
“Helmut would say”: Ibid.
“One afternoon,” he recalled: Everett, “Unmasked.”
“a gigolo and a gigolette”: Avins, “Helmut Newton, 83.”
“It was very sad”: Sarah Mower, “The ‘King of Kink’ Made Naughty Fashionable,” New York Times, Sept. 21, 2003.
“It was like having”: Ibid.
“I’m a frustrated paparazzi”: Elizabeth Venant, “Checking Out Odd Couple of Photography,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 4, 1987.
“He was used to much darker”: Judy Graeme, “Helmut Newton and Los Angeles,” www.laobserved.com, July 1, 2013.
“taught everyone how to live”: Avins, “Helmut Newton, 83.”
“Every year [they] would come”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“I don’t want to own anything”: Venant, “Checking Out Odd Couple of Photography.”
“I have the feeling”: Wagner, author interview.
“He was coming home”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“It’s another fancy L.A. hotel”: Jane Gayduk, “A Rare Interview with Eve Babitz, the Long Sober, Cool Again Author,” www.interviewmagazine.com, April 6, 2018.
“I was living in Paris”: Karina Longworth, “Sofia Coppola’s Journey to ‘Somewhere,’ ” L.A. City Pages, Dec. 29, 2010.
“That’s where that kind of guy”: Mark Olsen, “Sofia Coppola Takes a Floor at the Chateau Marmont,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 31, 2010.
“Me and my friends”: Sheryl Garratt, “L.A. Confidential,” Telegraph (London), Dec. 6, 2010.
“There was a year I did nothing”: Longworth, “Sofia Coppola’s Journey to ‘Somewhere.’ ”
“The Chateau doesn’t allow”: Somewhere press notes.
“People ask all the time”: Olsen, “Sofia Coppola Takes a Floor at the Chateau Marmont.”
“The goal,” she explained: Somewhere press notes.
“It’s amazingly quiet”: Ibid.
“I had some money”: Mark Rozzo, “Somewhere Man,” New York Times, Sept. 12, 2010.
“It was kind of a trip”: Somewhere press notes.
“I was able to give some gossip”: Olsen, “Sofia Coppola Takes a Floor at the Chateau Marmont.”
“I got my own Johnny Marco”: Somewhere press notes.
“The vibe of Sofia’s movie”: Longworth, “Sofia Coppola’s Journey to ‘Somewhere.’ ”
“I regret to inform you”: “Lindsay Lohan BANNED from Sunset Strip Hotel,” www.tmz.com, Aug. 29, 2012.
“discourteous, irresponsible, and unprofessional”: “Lindsay Lohan Blasted for ‘Heavy Partying,’ ” People, July 28, 2006.
“Chateau Marmont places guest privacy”: “LA Hotel ‘Horrified’ over LiLo’s Leaked $46K Bill,” New York Post, Aug. 30, 2012.
“We are not commenting”: Don Dicker, “Lindsay Lohan Banned from Chateau Marmont Hotel After $46,316 Unpaid Bill,” www.thehuffingtonpost.com, Aug. 29, 2012.
“We’ve brought criminal charges”: Wasson, “Hotel California.”
“The Chateau Marmont has built”: Lauren Dugan, “Former ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Kicked Out of Chateau Marmont for Tweeting,” Adweek, April 21, 2011.
“Our hotel’s success”: A. J. Daulerio, “How to Get Kicked Out of Chateau Marmont Without Drugs: A Liveblog,” www.defamer.com, June 28, 2013.
“André tends to know”: Lacher, “Inn Hollywood.”
“slipped a hand”: Laura M. Holson, “André Balazs, Celebrity Hotelier, Is Accused of Groping,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 2017.
“I witnessed behavior”: Ibid.
“the account of André Balazs’s outrageous”: Ibid.
“he grabbed her arm”: Ibid.
“felt a presence”: Ibid.
“He needs that hotel”: Edwardes, “Hotelier André Balazs’ Deliciously Naughty Life.”
“If you wanted to work”: Jacob Bernstein, Matthew Schneier, and Vanessa Friedman, “ ‘I Felt Helpless’: Male Models Accuse Photographers of Sexual Exploitation,” New York Times, Jan. 14, 2018.