Hotel Chelsea Newsmakers

Nice profile of Rosanne Cash in the Jan. 22 issue of The NYTimes.  We learn that Rosanne's daughter is named Chelsea and she reminds her mom of a Southern, female, Leonard Cohen when she sings.  If that's not enough of a Chelsea connection, about a week and a half ago a couple of our favorite lobby sitters were uprooted to make room for a crew shooting a Rosanne Cash music video here at the Hotel.

Leonard Cohen I'm your Man, a documentary on Leonard Cohen, was screened at Sundance last week.  Speaking quietly but unguardedly, Cohen appears amused when discussing his lifelong dislike for blue jeans, his following among young “punksters” and his regrets about once revealing that “Chelsea Hotel” was written about a sexual encounter with Janis Joplin. “She wouldn’t have minded, but my mother would have minded,” he says of his indiscretion. 

Lou Reed joins the list of folks who are attacking the new biopic "Factory Girl." "They're all a bunch of whores," the rock god tells us..." "I read that script," Reed said the other night at a party for his new photo shows at the Hermès boutique and the Steven Kasher Gallery. "It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen — by any illiterate retard — in a long time.  There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money..."(Source: Daily News, Jan 23).

The highly coveted Sundance Channel gift bag which is given to 250 pre-selected individuals contains a full year membership to the chic David Barton Gym, including five private training sessions.

Hotel Chelsea resident Marshall Allan discusses his passion for art.  "He now travels to art fairs around the world, spends weekends at gallery openings and employs art advisers. He even moved into the Chelsea Hotel because of its history as a hub for artists, and met his fiancee, Karen LaGatta, through art world connections."  (Source: Crains New York Business, Jan. 23, 2006)

For free, courtesy of the International Hearld Tribune, here's Hotel Chelsea resident Michael Rips' article about Seydou Keita.  Art world intrique about who controls the after life of an image.