Filming/Photography At The Hotel
The hotel was a frequent site of movie, music video, and television filming, having been a location for movies and television programs such as The Graduate (where it was called the Taft Hotel), Pretty Woman, L.A. Story, The Wedding Singer, Apollo 13, Hoffa, Beaches, True Romance, Angel, Beverly Hills, 90210, Scream 2, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Catch Me If You Can, Crazy, The Mask, Without You I'm Nothing, Forrest Gump, Crazy in Alabama, S.W.A.T., D.E.B.S., The Best Man, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Emilio Estevez's movie Bobby was filmed there during late 2005, even as the adjoining wing was being demolished. The Ambassador Hotel was memorialized in the "1999 Movie The Thirteenth Floor", where it comes to life as the main characters visit 1937 Los Angeles. The Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove also hosted musician Roy Orbison and several performers for the 1987 television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. The Cocoanut Grove was recreated for the 2004 movie The Aviator, but there were not any scenes filmed on the hotel's property. Several scenes from the made-for-television movies Tower of Terror, and Nightmare on the 13th Floor were filmed at the hotel.
Rock band Linkin Park also held their press photo shoot for their 2003 album Meteora at the abandoned hotel.
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“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
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