Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic It is the castle on the hill, the grand dame of Tinseltown, the old lady of La-La Land. For almost 100 years, Chateau Marmont has been an A-list attraction. Everybody who is anybody has stayed there, and anybody who wants to be somebody goes there.\u00a0The reason is simple: in a city where\u00a0everyone is constantly judged, evaluated and placed into competition with each other, at the Chateau, all bets are off. It is a secluded oasis: a place where you can be yourself. Or, better yet, be somebody else. Hotels are by nature transient spaces that\u00a0allow you to reinvent, experiment and risk trying things you might not at\u00a0home. The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.Its history as a place of freedom for\u00a0the\u00a0famous is memorialised in the Chateau\u00a0Marmont Hollywood Handbook, the official account of the hotel\u2019s history and a cult classic, now back in print a year\u00a0in anticipation of its upcoming 30th anniversary. Edited by the hotel\u2019s owner, Andr\u00e9 Balazs, the book is a juicy memoir capturing the stories of those who have been in residence there: Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hunter S Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Kiedis and\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis. The images, which include Julie Delpy doing her ironing and cohorts of women dancing through the gardens, remind us that art\u00a0and\u00a0play are inexorably bound\u00a0and that\u00a0nothing inventive or new\u00a0comes from\u00a0following the rules.The Chateau is a perfect Bardo, a suspension of realityThe Chateau was built in 1929 as the first earthquake-proof building in Los Angeles, modelled after the Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Amboise, a one-time home of Mary, Queen of Scots, in France\u2019s Loire Valley. It garnered a reputation as the place to go to misbehave following the Hays Code of the 1930s, a form of self-imposed censorship enacted by the Hollywood studios that disallowed nudity, sex and interracial relationships in their movies. Amid this climate, the hotel became the perfect place to hide, with its thick walls, privacy from the street and famously discreet staff. As Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry Cohn said in 1939: \u201cIf you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.\u201d (The hotel also managed to get itself into trouble in 2020 when the pandemic hit and longtime employees were abruptly laid off, leading to a boycott supported by many celebrities. Fences have since been mended, and the hotel workers are now unionised.)\u00a0The Chateau attracts outsiders of all sorts: artists, writers, misfits and anyone on the edge, those feeling precarious, disenfranchised or unseen, and even U2\u2019s The Edge. It is a home away from home for those seeking refuge \u2013 from the public, and sometimes from themselves. The Hollywood Handbook reports that Robert Mitchum, pictured in the book doing the washing up in one of the Chateau\u2019s apartments, was busted while in residence for smoking a spliff. Newspaper cuttings from 1982 report that actor John Belushi had died of a drug overdose in Bungalow 3. More recently, Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9 threw an Oscars afterparty in the building\u2019s garage. Miley Cyrus celebrated her 31st birthday at the hotel with an impromptu lobby concert. And this year\u2019s Golden Eve Party, the night before the Golden Globes, attracted so many fans and paparazzi that the street outside the hotel had to be closed off.\u00a0I have found it to be an exceptionally creative environment. My 2006 novel, This Book Will Save Your Life, the story of a man\u2019s midlife crisis and search for connection set in the hills of Los Angeles, which ends with a fire in the exact part of the Pacific Coast Highway that just burned, was largely written there, as were many of my short stories. I often write in my room and have multiple favourites, including one that faces out the back and overlooks a swimming pool, where I used to watch a woman in a red swimsuit do her daily laps. And if I get a bit of writer\u2019s block, I take my notebook downstairs, sit on the veranda and drink endless Arnold Palmers while people-watching and making notes. There is a frisson in the air, call it energy or inspiration, but it\u2019s stronger than the Wi-Fi and available to all. More than one artist I know has described their experience in-house as being at the centre of a generative energy vortex.And, of course, the discretion the hotel\u00a0prides itself on is also conducive to romance. I once had a 14-hour date in the outdoor garden, punctuated by visits from a high-school friend, Bret Easton Ellis, his friend, the actor Robert Pattinson, and the beloved hotel manager, who sat with us for several hours and shared his coming-out story. The date ended\u00a0only because I had to take an early flight back to New York, but the relationship it sparked lasted more than a decade.\u00a0The pathos and ethos of the place are best exhibited in the peekaboo dance played by its guests: \u201csee me, don\u2019t see me\u201d, \u201cno photos please, but show me the one you just took\u201d, \u201cdon\u2019t quote me, but make sure I end up in the book\u201d. The hotel has a no photos policy, but\u00a0at the same time parties and events at the hotel are heavily documented and often appear in the media. That this performative rejection of fame \u2013 only done in the right place and at the right time \u2013 increases notoriety is in no\u00a0way coincidental.\u00a0The spaces of the hotel are all part of this dance. There is a small intimate bar off the lobby, a large, dark, velvety living room and an outdoor restaurant that is the social centrepiece. One can either sit back and watch from the veranda or plunge into the tide pool of celebrity cheek-kissing. The cheeks I\u2019ve spotted range from Kardashians to Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves. The L-shaped main building, consisting of 63 rooms with full kitchens, is conducive to checking in and never leaving. There are terraces and balconies that are like observation decks to peer down from. The outside of the hotel is shrouded in foliage and high walls. And if even more privacy is desired? There are the historic cottages and poolside bungalows, accessed through a locked gate and through jungle and overgrown plants.The feeling is like that of a private club: gothic, eccentric, accepting. Among the international community of writers, artists, musicians and actors there is always someone you know staying there. And like an old family home, the furnishings are often a little like something you\u2019d find in your great-aunt\u2019s home, a little shabby or in need of some repair. But the imperfection is the perfection: it is true to life, a celebration of our own imperfections. Upon arrival you are handed a fringed brass key fob (yes, they still use keys) and in your room, there\u2019s hotel stationery with your name on it, and above that the phrase \u201cin residence\u201d. \u00a0Here is my key fob \u2013 yes, of course it is stolen. Shhh\u2026 it\u2019s our secret.\u00a0The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook is published by Rizzoli at $39.95. AM Homes\u2019s latest\u00a0novel, The Unfolding,\u00a0is\u00a0published by\u00a0Granta at\u00a0\u00a39.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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