Legends has intercepted an e-mail letter-to-the-editor that minority shareholder Marlene Krauss sent to Page 6 Magazine. Apparently she must have forgotten that we control the Internets:
To the Editor,
I wish I could thank you for your July 20 article on my property, the Chelsea Hotel, but I’m afraid it will only encourage the sort of undesirable “bohemian” tourism that my fellow board member David Elder and I have been working hard to bring to a well-deserved end. Your writer, Annie Karni, has unfortunately been taken in by a bad lot, and has bought the party line of these trouble makers, parroting what can most charitably be called a bunch of bull malarkey. Though I wish her well, I advise her to do as I do and avoid setting foot in that blighted building ever again.
Chief among the misconceptions in Karni’s article is the claim of one resident, reinforced by the tone of the whole piece, that the hotel is chaotic, and that since there is no manager no one knows who to pay rent to. While I won’t deny that the hotel is somewhat less than orderly, this is the fault of the very people who are complaining about it, the residents, who habitually go around dressed as clowns and so-called “doppelgangers,” soiling their own nest with stink bombs, and is a holdover from the Stanley Bard years, when every sort of illegal and licentious behavior was celebrated and even encouraged. As for the issue of rent, many of the hotel residents must not have thought Stanley Bard was the manager either, as they habitually went without paying for years at a time.
The plain truth of the matter is that the residents of the Chelsea Hotel belong to a sort of cult that idolizes and worships the former owner, Stanley Bard. One of the sadly misguided residents even admits as much when he says, “You can’t have a religious movement without a religious leader,” and I don’t know what more proof you could ask for. Stanley seems to have hoodwinked these people, all of admittedly sub-normal intellect, in much the same way that Madonna brainwashed A-Rab with the Kaballah. I’m as tolerant as the next person, but I can’t help wondering: Why don’t they just move to Jonestown and drink the Kool-Aid and leave decent people to make their millions in New York in peace!
Now I know what you’re saying, that I’m not an expert in these matters like the great Madonna. But I know a thing or two about brainwashing myself, since, as CEO of Summer Infant, I devised a groundbreaking technique to beam X-rays from outer space into the cribs of unsuspecting children. That hussy Madonna is not all she’s cracked up to be either. I’ll bet she doesn’t have a Harvard MBA, now does she? And I’m sure I could get a young basketball stud like A-Rab too if I cared to the take time out from my busy schedule to master the arts of seduction and love. (I’m already a better dancer than her.) Hillary has fallen, and so too will Madonna, while I continue to grow younger, stronger, and more beautiful, eventually to triumph over all my competitors, deathless and eternal.
I have hired a crack security team to impose order on the hotel until such time as I see fit to gut the building and repopulate it with a better class of people. Though I’m sure you and all good, upstanding citizens of this metropolis support me in this endeavor, irresponsible articles such as Karni’s do not make my job any easier. Please watch it in the future.
Sincerely,
Marlene Krauss, MD, Pld., Harvard MBA
Wow, Marlene seems really angry. Probably the best thing for us all to do is just pack our bags and move out quietly. We just hope in the meantime she doesn’t go all Waco on our ass.
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