Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: 5 Questions
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Australian writer Robert J. Shaw (aka Cherry Ramone) was taken to see Paul Morrissey’s Flesh at age 14, when even he knew he was too young. Corrupted so early in life, is it any wonder he’s spent a lifetime studying all things Warhol? “I spent six hours at MOMA today,” Robert says as soon as…
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When we were in Washington, D.C.recently, we had breakfast with José Padua, his wife Heather, and their lovely and intelligent 3-year-old daughter Maggie. José is a poet and former downtown fixture who got his start at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café back in the eighties. He mentioned that his brother Pat was going to be in…
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We met the cameraman Robin Adams when he was filming us for an episode of the Japanese T.V. show "Streets of New York." It turns out he stayed here back in 1990. Too bad he didn’t see any ghosts, because he would have been just the man to capture them on film. This time he…
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Filmmaker Roberto Bentivegna recently stopped by the Chelsea to film a short murder mystery. Thanks for giving us another ghost to be on the look out for! We hope he’s talking hypothetically when he says that he can’t think of a better place to kill oneself than the Chelsea Hotel. Oh, and if anybody knows…
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Arthur Weinstein is a photographer and artist who has recently been producing some impressive large silk screens of cultural icons such as Roy Cohn and George Gershwin. If you ever visit the Chelsea, you simply must see his large scale mobile on the tenth floor. Night time is best when it’s lit up by spotlights. …
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Musician Libby Johnson is small and pixyish, fair-skinned and red haired like an Irish girl, with a cute, youthful face. We interviewed her in her apartment at the Chelsea, as her husband Dan worked at his computer in the living room and her two kids romped about until Dan asked them go into the bedroom…
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Last week, with a documentary film crew in tow (It was a shoot for New York Streets, a documentary that will be aired on Dec. 10th on channel NHK BS1 in Japan (and a small subscribed Japanese cable channel here). Debbie and I went to visit the painter Robert Lambert in…
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Michael Armstrong and his friends are definitely our kind of tourists. They were looking for an "only in New York" kind of place and understood that "old and crappy" is good! Michael says his stay at the Chelsea was one of the greatest experiences of his life. What brought you to the famed Chelsea Hotel?…
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Even if you get a tattoo of the Chelsea, you still won’t have Artie Nash beat. He has two! Be sure to read page two of Artie’s interview or you’ll miss some exciting stuff like his encounter with the Mafia at Mamma Mia!, how he and Arthur Weinstein witnessed a gang riot and his…
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