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Rachel Zoe Thinks Thompson LES Is 'Kind of Awesome'
Rachel Zoe, stylist to celebs like Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz and star of Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project, set up camp at the Thompson LES Hotel in New York for Fashion Week.
But the super-skinny stylista didn't have time to swim in the Andy Warhol-bottomed pool. Team Zoe was too busy averting fashion disasters like nip slips and ugly taffeta trains in the Thompson Loft, the penthouse suite on the 18th and 19th floors of the hotel. "This is kind of awesome," Zoe said as she looked around the duplex. She and her hubby, Rodger, admired the exposed concrete ceilings and columns.
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Fresh Off Two HBO Guest Spots, The Sofitel Los Angeles Now Hosting 'Shaq Vs.'
If you visit Los Angeles with the hopes of spotting a celeb or watching a location shoot (and c'mon, who doesn't visit LA with those hopes?) then the Sofitel Los Angeles might be the best place for you to stay.
This summer we've seen the hotel show up in an episode of True Blood and Entourage, both Made-For-HBO hit television shows.
Next up for the hotel? Possibly at stint on the new Shaq Vs. reality show where baller Shaquille O'Neal goes up against other superstar athletes from different fields (and courts and pools) of sports. The NY Post reports that Shaq and boxer Oscar De La Hoya were seen touring the kitchen of Simon LA, helmed by Chef Kerry Simon at the Sofitel.
Rates at The Sofitel tend to be pricey, starting at $335 a night on their website. However, this hotel can be booked on Hotwire.com for a lot less but remember it's Hotwire and you do take your chances. The hotel is listed as a 4.5 star hotel in the Beverly Hills-West Hollywood region. Booking through Hotwire could also land you at the London West Hollywood right below the Sunset Strip which is also a pretty good place to be for celeb-spotting. We've spied Kevin Spacey there once. Just sayin'.
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Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel Lives On in 'Mad Men'
If you’re still sad that the Mad Men package at the St. Regis was canceled, here’s an ever-so-tiny piece of Mad Men hotel news that might brighten your day, at least a bit. The season three premiere features….a trip to the classic Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore!
(Yes, like the rest of America, we've gone Mad Men mad.)Since the Beaux-Arts Belvedere was converted to luxury condos way back in 1991, this is about the easiest way to see the hotel in its carefully researched, 1960s-era glory (unless, of course, you’ve got a thing for old archives).
At the heart of the episode is a business trip Don Draper ( Jon Hamm) and Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt) take to Baltimore to do a little hand holding with one of their agency's clients, the father and son team running the company making London Fog raincoats.
The episode is titled "Out of Town," and it is written by series creator Matthew Weiner, who was born in Baltimore and attended Park School before his family moved to Los Angeles.
The Baltimore trip dominates the episode, with Don and Salvatore shacking up (no, not together! er, at least not that we’re aware of) at the Belvedere Hotel and dining at now-shuttered Baltimore institution Haussner’s.
Sigh. Just another reason we can’t wait for our Draper-and-friends fix come Aug. 16.
Photo: AMC
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Don't Forget Your Pen Necklace: 'Mad Men' Party at the Roosevelt Hotel
The Mad Men Package at the St. Regis NYC may have been cancelled but it looks like New Yorkers will have a place to show off their best "Mad Men" costumes as the Roosevelt Hotel is hosting a season three premiere party inside their Madison Club Lounge on Sunday, August 16.
The bar here was a favorite amongst the Sterling Cooper crew in the first two seasons (it's located at 45th and Madison) and now guests can come in costume to watch the show inside the lounge on flat-panel TVs. And you don't even need to make a reservation.
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Antonio Sabato Jr. Looks for Love (On Camera) at Hilton's Waikoloa Village
Yeah, we’re kinda embarrassed that we think former Calvin Klein manty model Antonio Sabato Jr. is still kinda hot. Maybe it’s his chiseled cheek bones, perfectly tanned skin, and taut, muscular abs, but we will never ever hold his appearance on Ally McBeal against him. Sigh.
The commitment-phobic Italian actor has jumped from daytime to prime time soap operas (and back again), and most recently, playing his hunk-alicious self on Ugly Betty. He managed to wed Alicia Tully Jensen for one whole year, knock up both Virginia Madsen and Kristin Rossetto, and has been linked to Nicolette Scorsese, Vanessa Marcil and Rachael Cook.
Now, at ye old mature age of 36, Sabato, Jr. seems to think he’s ready to settle down (uh huh) and like every D-list celebrity in need of a career refresher (hello, Bret Michaels, Denise Richards, and Janice Dickenson!), he’s hooked up with a reality show to make his dreams come true. Barf.
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PC of 'NYC Prep' Throws a Party at the Six Columbus Penthouse
We totally got suckered into the new Bravo TV reality show, NYC Prep. We have no good reason to explain this except that watching rich teenagers do and say stupid things is hilarious when you're 30 years old and you still drink out of a bottle--a wine bottle that is.
Anyways, every epsiode Bravo likes to have the kids do one of two things--something straight out of Gossip Girl plotline or spend a serious amount of money on stuff that average adults could only dream about. In last night's episode, we had both!
Camille, Kelli and a friend toured Harvard while the guyliner-wearing, 18 going on 30, PC threw a small party in the penthouse of the 6 Columbus, a Thompson Hotel on Columbus Circle.
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The Today Show Staycations at The Sagamore
Blah, blah, blah — the economy's bad, people shouldn't be taking lavish vacations, etc, etc, etc. And the Today Show, the many-hours-long show that airs when the breadwinners are usually away at work, is smartly promoting summer vacay-ness on a budget. They broadcasted today from The historic Sagamore, presenting the Lake George, NY area as "one of the four top vacation destinations in the nation."
Today marks the first in a four-day series called "Today Takes a Vacation," and we'll be keeping you up to date if we see any more hot hotels. For the time being, you can bounce on over to the Today Show site to see what you probably missed while you were at work Meredith Viera and Ann Curry shot live segments and aired it with footage shot during their vacay over the past week.
Rates at the Sagamore are starting at $299 during the week of July 27 through August 3, 2009 — as part of a Today Show special, you can score 25% off all accommodations. The discount is valid for dates through the rest of the year, as long as you book this week. Oh, and breakfast is included.
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All's Well That Ends Well Again For 'Entourage' Boys at The Sofitel LA
The Sofitel LA has been a very busy hotel these days. Recently, the hotel was used as the setting for vampire hotel, Hotel Carmilla, in True Blood. Then last night, the boys of Entourage ended the episode in a typical Entourage fashion--toasting their success over dinner--at Simon inside the hotel.
So it might be hard not to hit up Simon (helmed by Chef Kerry Simon) for its legendary giant cotton candy and junk food platter, or the ever present eye candy that is almost consistently wearing tight Bebe dresses and hair extensions but the restaurant does have a pretty extensive menu ranging from wood-oven pizzas to sushi and steak. Plus Simon uses organic ingredients and most of the meat is is "farmed and harvested in a sustainable manner", as per the restaurant's website..
And let's not forget about the wine. Go ahead and order two bottles. Remember, E's paying.
Room rates start at around $335 a night on the hotel's website.
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MC Hammer Renews His Vows at Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu
Hammertime happened right here!
We’re island-hopping around Hawaii this week for a few assignments, and stopped by Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu’s North Shore to do a quick tour of the hotel. The 880-acre property is a real stunner with five miles of perfectly uncrowded coastline. If we gave a rat’s ass about golf we're sure we'd be impressed by the Arnold and Fazio pro golf courses, but sadly, the sport is lost on us.
But, as an Oahu wedding or honeymoon destination, Turtle Bay Resort is one of the best.
That’s why MC Hammer (a.k.a. Stanley Burrell) decided to have an impromptu vow renewal with his wife of more than 23 years during a recent spring break stay at the resort. All the Kleenex-worthy drama will air this Sunday on the has been 90’s rapper’s reality TV show, Hammertime on A&E.
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'The Today Show' is Throwing a Wedding at The Plaza
You know how every year The Today Show picks a lucky couple and throws them a wedding? Well, you should — they've been doing it for ten years now. And in '09, on the official tenth anniversary of "Today Throws a Wedding," four couples will go through a series of weekly challenges for a chance to win — you guessed it — a wedding at The Plaza. It's like Bride Wars: The Remix.
The grand Plaza wedding — thrown for the couple wins the whole competition — goes down on July 15th live on show, and the reception will be broadcast from The Plaza’s Grand Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. And, that day, the executive chef of the Plaza will also be unveiling "a new signature drink" and will be showcasing selections from the Ballroom’s 100-mile menu.
Sounds like a pretty kickass deal for the lucky couple, except, you know, that America gets to vote on their rings, the dress, the tux, the attendants’ attire, the cake, and where they're going for the honeymoon. And America has been, er, "misguided" before — do we have to remind you of a little American Idol called Taylor Hicks? Oh, right, we do.
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The Real World Cancun's Bi-Level Suite Now Open for 'Regular' Guests
We found out in April that the newest season of The Show That Will Never Die, The Real World, would be taking place in Cancun at the ME Cancun Hotel. Now with the show set to debut this Wednesday on MTV.com, we were able to get a sneak peek at the suite/apartment where the eight strangers all shacked up.
Naturally, the ME Cancun didn't have a big enough suite in place at the hotel so they had to create one. Thus the hotel took 14 rooms and turned it into the gigantic SuiteME, a 9,757 square foot, bi-level suite that features a fully-stocked bar, a purple felt pool table and three balconies, one with views of the hotel's adults-only pool area.
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The Dudes From 'The Bachelorette' Take Over the Fairmont Vancouver
We sort of prefer The Bachelor to The Bachelorette — what? Doesn't everyone? — but when it comes down to it, we'll watch it if we've got nothin' else happening on a rainy summer night. And then we get addicted to it and yada yada; you know the rest.
We suppose we'll now have a valid excuse to switch it on, though: tonight's episode is hotel geek-esque. The Bachelorette, Jillian, actually surprises the thirteen suitors "with a romantic trip to her hometown of Vancouver."
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