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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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The definitive—and salacious—history 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 Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild

Since 1929, Hollywood’s 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 Chateau’s walls has eluded the public eye—until 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.
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The definitive—and salacious—history 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 Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild

Since 1929, Hollywood’s 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 Chateau’s walls has eluded the public eye—until 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.
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      • source: Cheryl Strayed
      • content: "Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight . . . This is the definitive book about Hollywood's most storied hotel."
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      • source: Los Angeles Times
      • content: "Stitched through with savory anecdotes that navigate us through an ever-shifting city, as the [Chateau Marmont's] own story arc mirrors Hollywood's various transitions: from the studio-run golden era, to Laurel Canyon's singer-songwriter scene, to the years of the comedy clubs and private bottle-service rooms."
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      • source: Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six
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      • content: "So wild that even Hollywood's best screenwriters couldn't make this stuff up."
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      • source: Joe Hagan, author of Sticky Fingers
      • content: "Reading The Castle on Sunset, I felt like I was sneaking around the hallways of the Chateau after midnight and peering through keyholes in history. Shawn Levy pulls back the velvet curtains to reveal all the decadence, glamour, ghosts, and gossip of a fabled and dreamy Hollywood."
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      • source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
      • content: "Very fun and informative . . . Levy chronicles one of Hollywood's most famous addresses."
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      • source: Booklist
      • content: "A genuinely fascinating look at how Hollywood supports its stars."
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      • source: Jacob Tomsky, author of Heads in Beds
      • content: "Alongside an endless supply of famous guests, Levy has managed to make the hotel itself a living, breathing, and wonderfully endearing character. The Castle on Sunset is thoughtfully researched and gorgeously executed."
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        February 15, 2019
        The history of Hollywood plays out in the corridors and bedrooms of an iconic hotel.In his latest, biographer Levy (Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome, 2016, etc.) turns to an inanimate subject as colorful and outrageous as some of the living subjects he's covered--e.g., Paul Newman, Porfirio Rubirosa, and the Rat Pack. The author chronicles the history of the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, suggesting that its story "parallels the story of Hollywood so thoroughly as to be inseparable from it." Levy's history is both staid and juicy. A lesser-known aspect of the history begins in 1926 when Fred Horowitz, a prominent attorney, envisioned an apartment building modeled on a French castle in the Loire Valley. Horowitz built an earthquake-proof structure of "pale stone, slate-gray gables, balconies, Gothic archways, and turrets." The denizens of Hollywood adored the place, making it, to this day, their own. Levy diligently details the effect on the hotel over the years of its different owners. Some nurtured the property while others saw it as part of a business deal. The place changed from an apartment to a hotel; it thrived, it turned seedy, and then, in the new millennium, morphed into a luxury hotel. What kept celebrities checking in was a staff that looked the other way. Leaning on previously published accounts, the author tells what went on at the discreet hideaway. Tony Perkins and Tab Hunter began a clandestine liaison at the hotel. Working on Rebel Without a Cause (one of many films developed on the premises), director Nicholas Ray had an affair with 16-year-old Natalie Wood. The most infamous event at the hotel occurred in 1982, when John Belushi died of a drug overdose in a hotel bungalow. The Marmont survived the scandal, and, in 2018, the tiniest room went for a price of $500 per night.A familiar but fun Hollywood tale.

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        May 1, 2019

        Chateau Marmont has a long history in Hollywood. Its original design as stand-alone apartments that were converted to a hotel and bungalows provided the ideal location for extended stays, and many celebrities came to value its privacy and low-key ambience. Former film critic Levy (Rat Pack Confidential) tells the history of the hotel in six significant parts, following it throughout the decades as it passed through the hands of both adoring and indifferent owners. Throughout Chateau Marmont's evolution, Sunset Boulevard below also underwent many changes, from a small strip in the 1920s surrounded by undeveloped hills to its current incarnation as a tourist destination. Levy shows how these changes in culture and clientele created a lasting impact and effectively describes the various imprints people left on the hotel, as movies were filmed and song were written there, and people chose to spend the last moments of their lives on the property. VERDICT Levy focuses on Chateau Marmont as a living entity, bringing it to life through its guests and the changes on the Sunset Strip. This will appeal most to Hollywood history buffs, but may also pique the interest of general readers with its yarns of various stars.--Stacy Shaw, Denver

        Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        April 15, 2019
        In his latest foray into Hollywood history, Paul Newman's biographer explores one of Los Angeles' most famous landmarks, the Chateau Marmont hotel, which has served as a temporary home to some of the biggest names in the movie business since the late 1920s. The problem is, as Levy points out, not all of the stories about the Marmont are true; even some of the juiciest have been embellished over the years, and there are plenty of stories that have remained hidden away, until now. With extensive footnotes and a robust bibliography, Levy's account sorts fact from fiction in retelling the tales of John Belushi's death by drug overdose at the Marmont, Lindsay Lohan's rampages, and, going further back, the numerous lovers with whom Jean Harlow frolicked behind the hotel's closed doors. Naturally, this will appeal to anyone who has ever read a gossip magazine, but it also offers a genuinely fascinating look at how Hollywood supports its stars.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild

Since 1929, Hollywood’s 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.
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