Manager Arnold Tamasar really made legendary photographer Terry Richardson feel at home in the Chelsea yesterday. Richardson was doing a shoot for Vogue in a room at the Chelsea, when he thought he might like to have a shot or two looking into the room from the hallway. No problem, right? Especially when Vogue is paying $5,000 a day in addition to renting several rooms. But when he got wind of this, manager Arnold Tamasar totally freaked out and sent security to shut the shoot down. The flabbergasted producer went down to negotiate with Tamasar, who told her that they couldn't continue the shoot unless the Chelsea had full legal approval of all photos they run! When asked the reason for this bizarre demand, Tamasar reportedly replied, How do we know you're not going to run something obscene with drugs and nudity and things?
(Drugs and nudity in the Chelsea?! Quel Horreur!) The producer said, in effect, We're Vogue, for God's sake!
After going back and forth for two hours, being allowed to shoot and then being shut down again, the producer finally asked to speak to the owner. Tamasar then produced David Elder, who said it was fine to shoot in the hallway! The shoot resumed, but then, amazingly, Tamasar shut it down again, demanding another $500. The producer got the Okay, but then Tamasar changed his mind again reportedly giving as his reason, I don't like you! On her way out, when the producer politely said good-by to Tamasar he merely snorted in reply. — Ed Hamilton (Photo: Terry Richardson and Barack Obama)
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41 responses to “The “New” Chelsea is No Friend to Fashion: Tamasar Insults Legendary Vogue Photographer Terry Richardson”
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Oh yeah, we only want crappy photographers shooting in the hallways for free around here!
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The Chelsea Hotel is in a position where it can afford to annoy the media industry, an excellent source of revenue during tough times.
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Can this be for real???? What is going on over there? Sounds like the management of the Chelsea is out of control –for real! I can’t believe they would waste Vogue Magazine’s time and money with their paranoia — and over what? This is an absolute embarassment.
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They got $5,000 for a day for a photo shoot! And they treated them BADLY and wanted MORE money? Jeez, with magazines cutting budgets way back people are lucky to get $2,500. (And it doesn’t look like the Chelsea Hotel business is booming, either). You’d think this guy would kiss their feet and hope they shot for a week at those prices!
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PS: to Arnold Tamasar
Don’t just stand there
Let’s get to it
Strike a pose
(there’s nothing to it)
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I guess they don’t stock VOGUE in whatever bathrooms this Tamasar guy “specializes” in. What an IDIOT! He just shot himself and the Hotel right in the damn foot. Think those fashion industry people don’t talk? Moron.
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Really nice going, crack team of professional dummies we’ve got running this place
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I’m surprised Richardson and Vogue’s entire crew didn’t walk right out the door when forced to answer to a nitwit like Arnold Tamasar. FOR TWO HOURS? This guy is a walking joke, and surely a big part of the reason why the Hotel is hemmorhaging cash.
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Ya know, I read this blog along with many others from intriguing locales so I may have a vicarious experience of the culture. But I’m beginning to believe I may have a future in NYC, in the hotel business. Where do I apply? I have absolutely no experience in the industry but I do HAVE A CLUE! Where do they find these people?
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Because Vogue and Richardson are involved, this story is going to hit every gossip and fashion column in the free world. Not the type of publicity that the Hotel needs…
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Ha Ha this is funny
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Where’d they get this Tamasar person anyway? I’ve never heard of anyone crowning themselves a ‘bathroom specialist’, though I’ll be among the first to admit good to aim high in life. Aspire. Just don’t throw Vogue Magazine out of the Chelsea like you did Fox News.
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Five grand? They should have had Tilley, Tamasar and Elder all donning housmaid outfits and kowtowing for that kind of cash.
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Randy – Applications taken at the Front Desk! Ask for Stanley or David Bard. That gets you extra fast service and preferential treatment around here. Hope to see you soon 😉
But seriously, the Hotel needs more people who have a clue and you sound like you’d fit right once the Bards get back in action. Won’t be long now from the looks of things.LikeLike
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The last thing a pro like Terry Richardson wants is a hassle on his set; what should have been a nonissue [shooting from the hallway] was blown out of proportion by inexperienced staff. I would be extremely embarassed if I were the one to have interfered.
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What is the deal here, why cant the Bards be brought back? if they still are owners dont they still have a say in anything that goes on? and do they want to come back?
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Jesus Christ, the new regime can’t get anything right! What will they fuck up next? How far into the ground must they drive the hotel and its legacy before they’ll realize what thundering dunderheads they are and throw in the towel. They are the Three (four with Tamasar) Stooges of the hotel industry.
On the other hand, they are providing great material for my current writing project.LikeLike
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who DOESN’T Tilley try to eject from the Hotel? Last week it was a news crew from Fox. Before them his target was all the long term residents, and they still are. He’d probably get rid of the Star Lounge altogether if David Elder wasn’t protecting them from exposure. Don’t they owe tens of thousands on that valuable commercial space? Gotta wonder why they are still there.
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Toni Senecal (FOX Channel) should come back over and cover this story. It goes much deeper than the Dylan demolition.
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Did they call the cops and have that pesky photog locked up!? This is insanity. I can only imagine the ripple effect of this harassment.
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Never seen such incompetence.
Think Bard would have broken Vogue’s balls? Not a chance. He’s the reason for Vogue wanting to come here to begin with. Now they, like most residents, know what they are dealing with.LikeLike
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Call for desperate measures.
New Management’s desperation is showing in everything they do nowLikeLike
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Too bad Tamasar and Tilley. You’ll both be let go soon and Vogue might have considered you both for a delivery position. Now you’ve gone and burned that bridge also.
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David Elder always seems to show up on the scene when there’s a celebrity or the possibility of sighting a celebrity in the Hotel. Its sad, really. I half expect to see him carrying around an autograph book.
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Hey Tamasar!
That’s why tourists come to stay at the Hotel Chelsea, so they can see photo shoots going on! Where did they hustle you up, anyway? the Port Authority bus terminal? You’re at the Chelsea now and WE LIKE VOGUE MAGAZINELikeLike
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I’ll tell you what will never been ‘En Vogue’ at the Chelsea — jackass posers with highlighted hair inhabiting Stanley Bard’s office.
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David Elder makes Rupert Pupkin look graceful and restrained. Elder is a total celeb-sniffer, a small variation on a jock-sniffer. He himself has no apparent talents, charm, or anything that would recommend him. He would have no way to be a notable person if he hadn’t inherited a tiny stake in the hotel, then along with that harridan Marlene Krauss found a lawerly way to screw the majority shareholder Stanley Bard out of control. These two still haven’t bought a clue. They are laughingstocks destined to become even more infamous, wildly infamous, as greedy, boorish assholes if they don’t give the hotel back to the Bards.
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Something is Burning, Tilley
Something is burning, Tilley, aren’t you aware?
Somethings the matter Tilley; smoke & dust in the air.
You once were our friend, Tilley, we said ‘show us a sign’.
Now you’re homesick, incompetent, or just plain old blind.
You’ve been avoiding the lobby for a long, long while.
The truth that we’re seeking is in your rent stabilization file.
What’s your position, Tilley, what’s going on?
Say, how do those highlights in your hair stay so blond?
We know every inch of this Hotel, so it seems.
Hey, don’t make the Chelsea part of your plans & your schemes.
Its become a bit obvious that something has changed;
What’s Marlene’s beef, Tilley, makes you act so strange?LikeLike
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Tamasar is pathetic. Why, again, does he have a job at the Chelsea? We smile, he smiles back completely clueless, probably thinks we actually enjoy seeing him when really we just need our toilet bowl or whatever fixed up.
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This joker insults Vogue in his dreams he better wake up and apologise
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So they paid five grand to be treated like crap. Too bad. If they were tenants here they could get that included in the rent.
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What a sad joke.
I heard when Tamasar when upstairs to extort $500 from Vogue Magazine, he told their producer to “Talk To The Hand.”
How embarassing for us all. Get rid of this asshole.LikeLike
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Arnold Tamasar is simply among the worst ideas ever sprung on the Hotel Chelsa. Complete “sore thumb” who has inherited Glennon Travis’s mantle admirably by virtue of the many false 9-1-1 calls he has called in, tying up the City’s valuable public safety resources.
Vogue Magazine, to their credit, probably tried to do whatever they could just to get this peasant out of their face. Five hundred bucks, to them, is nothing. To Tamasar, five bills probably looks like the Raja’s crown jewels.LikeLike
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DON’T JUST STAND THERE
LETS GET TO IT
UNCLOG MY TOILET
LET TAMASAR DO ITLikeLike
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Richardson looks like such a chill dude. As a resident of the Hotel, I would like to extend my apologies for the agressive attitude of Hotel management, and for the presumtuousness of Tamasar, Tilley and Elder.
We are doing our best to return normalcy to the Hotel Chelsea and once again it will be the type of place that Vogue can come and feel at ease.LikeLike
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Has Vogue booked their next shoot at the Chelsea yet? Not likely thats going to happen so long as peasants like Tilley and Tamasar are lurking around this place – what a sad joke played on this grand old Hotel.
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WHAT A LOSER. DOES THIS ARNOLD TAMASAR STILL HAVE A JOB? HE OUGHT NOT TO. WITH ALL OF THOSE UNEMPLOYED IN THIS COUNTRY HE’S GOT SOME BACKWARDS IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO TREAT PEOPLE. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
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Vindaloo –
This is just what happens when Minimum-Wage intellects like Tamasar’s get out of their natural element – Telemarketing.
The guys has got a face best suited for radio.LikeLike
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Take note, NYC media people, Arnold Tamasar thinks he manages the Chelsea Hotel nowadays. Come one, come all. If need references, call Terry at Vogue and ask about the extra special treatment he received at the Chelsea Hotel
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isn’t that guy a frigging bathroom attendant? i mean seriously. talk about scraping the bottom of the trough
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Its Fashion Week in NYC, Arnold! Lets see what fashion industry icons you can piss off next. Speaking of next, have you given much thought to where you’ll go after the Chelsea chews you up then spits you out?
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