One of many few friends staying on the Chateau Marmont throughout the pandemic says that the disaster has improved the legendary LA lodge by ridding it of “douches” and “a - - holes” “attempting to make it in Hollywood.”
Musician Casey Spooner has been documenting his keep on the just lately reopened lodge on social media. “There’s no kitchen; there’s no room service,” Spooner mentioned in an Instagram chat with artist TM Davy. “There’s a skeleton workers. There’s no cushions. It’s a really fascinating combo of, like, luxurious and financial system.”
Spooner admits, “I really favor [it]. Normally, it’s so douchey. So many a –holes simply attempting to get consideration, attempting to get a job, attempting to make it in Hollywood. It’s all of the glamour and not one of the bulls–t.”
A supply acquainted with the lodge, which let go of 242 workers in March with out insurance coverage or severance, says axed staffers have now acquired sums from a reduction fund arrange by proprietor André Balazs referred to as the Chateau Household Fund. We’re instructed that cash was doled out primarily based on seniority, which will even decide rehiring, alongside “want primarily based on visitor quantity.”
Regulars together with Sam Rockwell, Patricia Clarkson, Griffin Dunne and Ryan Murphy have chipped in. On-line gross sales from the lodge reward store are additionally serving to the trigger.