May 12, 2008
Mark Twain Slept Here
The one-of-a-kind moviemaker Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) checked into the one-of-a-kind Chelsea Hotel in New York inspired to make a documentary about the legendary rough-edged West 23rd Street building that Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, Tennessee Williams, Lance Loud, Edward Hopper, Leonard Cohen, Robert Crumb, etc, etc, called home over the decades. And the transient traffic is effing storied. It's where Sid stabbed Nancy, Warhol shot Chelsea Girls, and Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001. Now Ferrara joins the list. He checked in with no plan or storyboard. "I didn't come in with a point to it," he says, "so I just lived there and began filming. The result was the hotel from soup to nuts. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now." The movie, Chelsea on the Rocks, premieres this month at Cannes. (Page Six)
Update: WOW Report blogger has just learned that Langdon F Page, who edited WOW's Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal, also edited Ferrara's documentary Chelsea on the Rocks – on location in room 315. No word on what room the Heidi editing took place.
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