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Luxury Collection Premiers Final Cut Inside The Producer's Suite
It's Guess the Hotel revealed!
Were you able to figure anything out from the video we posted on Friday? Two people called out The Chatwal, which was correct! We were there last week, in the Producer's Suite on the tenth floor, to watch a new promotional video by Luxury Collection called HERE.
If you're at all restless like us, you might wind up booking an impromptu trip to Vermont, Scottsdale and/or Hawaii after you watch it. The 15-minute film is set at Equinox Resort & Spa, The Phoenician and The Royal Hawaiian, Waikiki successively, and each hotel comes off looking more idyllic than the next.
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Twitpic of the Week: Dorothy Diorama in Culver City
In the ever-expanding universe of Twitter, there is one particular trend @HotelChatter happens to quite enjoy: candid hotel photos. These Twitpics range from stunning views to anti-views to celebrity tomfoolery and everything in between. And we can't get enough of 'em! Every Monday, we will feature one "Twitpic of the Week" to commemorate our favorite hotel-themed snapshot. Got a favorite of your own? Want to show off your sweet suite? Send it in!
We featured this place a few years back in our Hollywood Star Map series, since this is where the Munchkins stayed during the filming of The Wizard of Oz in the 1930s. Well, it seems @Flyleaf Music has discovered this other piece of Oz memorabilia at the 88-year-old Culver Hotel: a Wizard of Oz diorama built into the hotel's front window display.
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Movie About A Sex Addict Shot Multiple Scenes in (Duh) The Standard Hotel
Michael Fassbender could have just been going along with the Standard New York's exhibitionist trend when witnesses caught him in the act inside one of the hotel's see-through rooms. But as it turns, out, Fassbender was just filming one of the scenes for Shame, a new movie directed by Steve McQueen that follows the life of a sex-crazed businessman (played by Fassbender) in NYC. And, not to condone such lurid behavior, but, man, this guy gets down. Like, everywhere.
Including The Standard, which beautifully sets the scene for two climactic moments in the film. The first happens inside the Boom Boom Room, where Carey Mulligan (who plays Fassbender's sister), made up a little like Marilyn Monroe, treats bar guests to a somber rendition of "New York, New York"—and you can literally see the twinkle of the skyline in the background.
Later on, two of Fassbender's many (many, many) sex scenes take place inside what is clearly one of the hotel's west-facing rooms, though The Standard's name is never mentioned. Shoes fly off, hands are pressed against windows...you get the idea. And if you happened to be strolling the High Line during the day of filming, let's just say you were treated to a real sneak preview.
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Next Time You're Looking For Peace and Quiet, Try Not To Check Into the Same Hotel As Woody Allen
If being woken up at midnight by a screeching clarinet isn't your cup of tea, then you might want to avoid staying in the same hotel as Woody Allen. The famous director—and part-time jazz musician—opened up to the LA Times in a recent interview about his unconventional clarinet practice routines.
When Woody isn't commandeering whole churches in Europe, or having his driver find a secluded street where he can then lock the doors and play undisturbed, he often relies on midnight practice sessions right in his hotel room. And when you're Woody Allen flying all over the world to shoot movies and attend premieres, finding time (and space) to practice can be difficult. Interestingly, Woody's never really considered himself that great of a musician. Which does wonders for his ego. But maybe isn't so great for his next-door hotel room neighbors...
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We Have Selena Gomez to Blame For This Bad Case of Hotel Lust
You may know the luxe Hotel de Paris in Monaco from the James Bond movies and its location adjacent to the famous Monte Carlo casino but now your daughter also knows the hotel, thanks to new Selena Gomez movie, "Monte Carlo."
But just FYI, there is no Grimaldi Suite at the hotel, although the Churchill and Garnier suites are nothing short of spectacular. Not that the regular rooms are all that shabby either. The five different room categories each have their own distinct look (we're partial to the pretty city view rooms and the more modern courtyard rooms--the sea view rooms seem fussy) and all come with luxe furnishings, decor and amenities.
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Trump Chicago to Make a Cameo in 'Transformers 3'
Transformers: Dark of the Moon will hit the theaters on June 29, but instead of watching to see if Rosie Huntington-Whiteley can out-pretty Megan Fox as the lady love interest, our eyes will be scouring the background to see the Chicago hotels making an appearance.
We told you about Hotel 71 being a filming site for the flick, but it looks like the Trump Chicago International Hotel and Tower will also get a role.
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This is Why Morgan Spurlock is on the Key Cards at Hyatt Hotels Right Now
If you've ever wondered about the business of product placement in movies--like why a character drinks Pepsi instead of Coke or eats Lays potato chips instead of Doritos--then Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is a must-see.
And if you're a hotel geek or a Hyatt Hotels fan gurl or boy, this movie will also show you the perks of being Diamond level of Hyatt's Gold Passport program.
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is all about the business of product placement, advertising and marketing and the movie's attention-grabbing hook is that it was entirely funded by product placement, advertising and marketing.
Hyatt Hotels was actually a key sponsor of the movie having invested about $700,000 in the film. But Stacey Snyder, Hyatt's director of marketing, told HotelChatter that Spurlock was already a fan of Hyatts before he started making this movie.
"He didn't approach any brands that he didn't have any passion for himself," she said.
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The Eden Roc Used to Have a Thing for Mermaids (and Mobsters)
Like everyone and everything in the 80s, the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami did not look so hot, although it clearly thought it did. (It's ok. We all thought we were hot in the 80s especially with our Vuarnet t-shirts and perms.) However, their honeymoon suite back in 1988 was...ah...um...quite exceptional.
Thanks to countless movie channels provided by DirecTV, we were able to rewatch "Married to the Mob" with Anthony Modine and Michelle Pfeiffer about a Long Island mobster's wife trying to get out of "the family." She ends up helping out the FBI to catch the mob boss and in doing so, accompanies him on a trip down to Miami where they shack up at the Eden Roc in the honeymoon suite.
But we guffawed out loud (GOL?) when we saw the honeymoon suite that Michelle's character, Angela, and mobster Tony The Tiger check into.
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Inside Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams' 'Robot's Vagina' Sex Room
In the heartbreaking film Blue Valentine the troubled married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams try to repair their in-tatters marriage by stealing away to a the Radisson Hotel Valley Forge for a romantic weekend. That may have been their first mistake.
A diplomatic Williams described the futuristic room as "trashy" to the Los Angeles Times, but Gosling went all out and said it was more like the "inside of a robot's vagina." Delightful.
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Spend the Weekend with the Chateau Marmont 'Somewhere'
The critics so far have loved Sofia Coppola's latest movie, Somewhere, which takes place (as every hotel geek already knows) in the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood. And now, we can finally go see it for ourselves.
The movie was released on Wednesday in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington and we just happen to be in one of those cities right now. The movie will have a wider national release in January.
In case you haven't read our previous stories on the movie, this is what it's about:
Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans. Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him.
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Whoops! Detectives Investigate Hotel Murder Only To Find Out It Was a Movie Set
Given the frightful history of hotel fires, we get rather nervous whenever we see a report of one in the news but this fire at the George Washington Hotel outside Pittsburgh has us somewhat relieved.
When firefighters responded to a call at the hotel two weeks ago for a fire, they found a guestroom that looked like a grisly murder scene complete with "blood-spattered hotel room littered with bottles of alcohol and even a piece of a scalp." Creepy.
Detectives then spent eight hours analyzing the crime scene with the police chief calling it one of the worst crime scenes he's scene in his 35 years of experience. But it turns out, the room was fake.
Instead it was a leftover movie set for the horror movie, "New Terminal Hotel", starring the late actor Corey Haim. The hotel's owner decided to leave the room untouched after filming wrapped in case they needed to come back for reshoots:
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Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp Check into Hotel Danieli in 'The Tourist'
Everyone's buzzing about The Tourist, the soon-to-open flick starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. People are wondering if the pair will have some good on-camera chemistry and whether Jolie will kick some ass in the movie. We were dying to find out about the hotel that provided the setting for some of the film, Hotel Danieli in Venice.
In The Tourist, Elise (Jolie) meets Frank (Depp) aboard a Paris train bound to Venice and sparks fly. They hop on a water taxi to get to the island and then check into the luxe legendary hotel.
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