Living with Legends

      Stanley has a long history of renting this place out to film crews, but now it seems we really are a sound-stage. Check out the new “production” section on the hotel’s official web site.
     Hard to believe BD is touting our “distinctive rooms and striking architecture” since they were all set to gut the place before the media firestorm torched their little party. They also make the “on-site engineering team” sound like film technicians or something.
     And of course the section fails to mention the real talent: there are actors, writers, hair-dressers and wardrobe specialists in residence, and even a director and a producer or two if you left yours back in Hollywood.
     Finally, anyone who’s read my book knows all about the special “craft services” tables permanently set up on the halls of most floors. Ed Hamilton