Popular Culture
In addition to its celebrity guests and its contributions to political parlance, the Blackstone has a place in popular culture. Among its uses in cinema, it hosted the banquet where Al Capone smashes a guest's head with a baseball bat in the Brian De Palma film The Untouchables, a party in The Hudsucker Proxy, and Tom Cruise's pre-pool tourney stay in The Color of Money. Also, the 1996–2000 television series Early Edition was set in this building, featuring a man who lives in the hotel and receives the newspaper a day in advance. During the 1980s and 1990s, the hotel was the home of Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase, the premiere Chicago host of international jazz stars including Ahmad Jamal, Dizzy Gillespie, Jay McShann, and Johnny Griffin, to name only a very few.
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