Reading: Shawn Levy: The Castle on Sunset
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, PortlandAnnie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Shawn Levy to read from his latest book, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. This is the definitive history of Hollywood's most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel. For ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. An apartment house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: 1930s bombshell Jean Harlow took lovers during her third honeymoon there; director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter met poolside and began a secret affair; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies, once falling nearly to his death; John Belushi suffered a…