"discrepancies in the overall layout of the Overlook Hotel location, the interiors of which were constructed in studios in England. These spatial discrepancies included windows appearing in impossible places, such as in Stuart Ullman's office which is surrounded by interior hallways, and apartment doorways positioned in places where they cannot possibly lead to apartments. Rob Ager is another proponent of this theory. Jan Harlan, an Executive Producer on ""The Shining"", was asked about the discontinuity of sets by Xan Brooks of ""The Guardian"" and confirmed the discontinuity was intentional, ""The set was very deliberately built to be offbeat and off"
"""The Shining"", released in 1980, was adapted from the novel of the same name by bestselling horror writer Stephen King. ""The Shining"" was not the only horror film to which Kubrick had been linked; he had turned down the directing of both ""The Exorcist"" (1973) and """" (1977), despite once saying in 1966 to a friend that he had long desired to ""make the world's scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience"". The film stars Jack Nicholson as a writer who takes a job as a winter caretaker of a"
"in a horror movie, insisted that Kubrick change the haunted room in the film to Room 237. The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick's film on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions. King was apparently displeased with Kubrick's film, based mainly on Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance. In 1996, Warner Brothers secured the television rights to ""The Shining"" and produced a miniseries (stylized as Stephen King's The Shining) with a script by Stephen King. Thanks to King, the Stanley Hotel was chosen as the primary shooting location. A playhouse version of the"
"for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel ""The Shining"" and as the filming location for the 1997 TV miniseries, also written by King. Today, the hotel features a restaurant, spa and bed-and-breakfast, and provides guided tours. In 1903, the Yankee steam-powered car inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley (1849-1940) was stricken with a life-threatening resurgence of tuberculosis. The most highly recommended treatment of the day was fresh, dry air with lots of sunlight and a hearty diet. Therefore, like many ""lungers"" of his day, Stanley resolved to take the curative air of the Rocky Mountains. He and Flora arrived"
"hotel. Mrs. Clements maintained an English garden known for her prize irises, and under her tutelage, the hotel was known for its entertainment. In 1980, Johnny (Sonny) and Evelyn Jackson purchased the hotel and restyled it into apartments. It later became a single residence, but had been abandoned for five years when the current owners took possession and began reclaiming and restoring the historic facility. Three sisters, Marilyn Hicks, Linda Roy, and Caron Perkins, operate the Matador as an eight-unit bed and breakfast. The barber shop was converted to the Circle Cross Heritage suite, with the original tin ceiling and"
"last years in poor health in the hotel and died there in May 1979.. Other notable guests include U.S. President Barack Obama, Emperor of Japan Hirohito, the Dalai Lama and Sadruddin Aga Khan, as well as the musicians Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Elton John, and actors Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Bette Midler, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Robert Pattinson, Walter Matthau and Al Pacino. In 1990, the Beverly Wilshire was the primary setting for the movie ""Pretty Woman"", though most interior scenes were actually shot at the defunct Ambassador Hotel nearby.. Decades later, it also became a common filming"
"the Ricardos and Mertzes came to Hollywood. Several scenes from the 1988 film ""Sunset"", starring Bruce Willis and James Garner, were filmed at the hotel, including a recreation of the 1929 Academy Awards ceremony. The scene of the 1989 film ""The Fabulous Baker Boys"" where Susie (Michelle Pfeiffer) sings ""Makin' Whoopie"" while Jack (Jeff Bridges) plays piano was shot at the Cinegrill nightclub in the hotel. The hotel's hallway can be seen in episode 7 of the 2016 FX true crime anthology television series """", as a substitute for an Oakland hotel where Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark spend the"
"Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film ""The Shining"" based on the Stephen King novel. Several scenes are based on the film, such as when Shannon Leto enters Room 6277 and encounters the woman in the bathroom and another when Matt Wachter is served drinks at the bar by a doppelgänger apparition. The video culminates in an elegant ballroom in the same manner as the photo at the end of the film. At 2:07, the papers that Jared Leto has been typing are briefly made visible and the words on them appear to read, over and over, ""This is who I really am."""
"the superhero film ""The Dark Knight"", involving actors Morgan Freeman and Chin Han, who played Lucius Fox and Lau, respectively. The hotel was chosen, as it was one of the only two private helipads in the SAR and the producers preferred the roof of The Peninsula over that of Shun Tak Centre. The Peninsula Hong Kong The Peninsula Hong Kong (), located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, is the flagship property of The Peninsula Hotels group, part of the Hong Kong And Shanghai Hotels Group. The hotel opened in 1928, and was the first under The Peninsula brand."
"fleet of Rolls-Royce Silver Spurs. It has been recognised as an internationally leading hotel, including in ""Condé Nast Traveler"" magazine and ""Travel + Leisure"". The hotel is mentioned in the James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" starring Roger Moore, where the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows is mentioned. The hotel was featured in the TV series Dynasty (Season 6, 1986). It was also prominently displayed in the 1988 NBC television miniseries ""Noble House"". In the same year, Michael Palin visited the Hotel for the BBC's """". In 2007, The Peninsula was used for a scene in"
"character in the novel, but the ending is changed. In the book, Jack redeems himself, and the boiler explodes due to the hotel's negligence. In the miniseries, Jack sacrifices himself by causing the boiler to explode in order to destroy the hotel. The miniseries ends with a scene not in the book: Danny graduates from high school, while his spectral father looks on. Jack Torrance John Daniel Edward ""Jack"" Torrance is the main protagonist of Stephen King's horror novel ""The Shining"" (1977). He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 movie adaptation (as antagonist) and by Steven Weber"
"Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired the story (a decision Kubrick made since the hotel lacked sufficient snow and electricity). However, King finally supervised the 1997 television adaptation also titled ""The Shining"", filmed at The Stanley Hotel. The animosity of King toward Kubrick's adaptation has dulled over time. During an interview segment on the Bravo channel, King stated that the first time he watched Kubrick's adaptation, he found it to be ""dreadfully unsettling"". Nonetheless, writing in the afterword of ""Doctor Sleep"", King professed continued dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film. He said of it ""...of course there was Stanley"
"(minus the solarium). There are two large fireplaces on either end of the room made from cut sandstone. On either side of the lounge is a series of floor to ceiling plate glass, picture windows ornamented at their tops with stained glass. Interiors of the Ahwahnee Hotel were adapted for Stanley Kubrick's horror film ""The Shining"" (1980). Designers at Elstree Studios incorporated the hotel's lobby, elevators, and Great Lounge into sets for the Overlook Hotel. Both the film ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1954) and ""Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day"" (1996) include footage of the Ahwahnee hotel. The hotel and"
"age of 80 on April 21, 2006. Kohnstamm's son Jeff is now the Area Operator of Timberline Lodge. Timberline Lodge was used as a filming location for the 1941 musical short, ""Jingle Belles"". Feature films shot at or around Timberline Lodge include ""Bend of the River"" (1952), ""All the Young Men"" (1960), the 1973 version of ""Lost Horizon"", and ""Hear No Evil"" (1993). Most notably, exterior shots of Timberline Lodge were used in ""The Shining"" (1980), Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the Stephen King novel set at the fictional Overlook Hotel. Brief exterior shots of a snowy Timberline Lodge were"
"Sunset Tower The Sunset Tower Hotel, previously known as The St. James's Club, and The Argyle, is a historic building and hotel located on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Designed in 1929 by architect Leland A. Bryant, opened in 1931, it is considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the Los Angeles area. In its early years, it was the residence of many Hollywood celebrities, including John Wayne and Howard Hughes. After a period of decline in the early 1980s, the building was renovated and has been operated as a luxury hotel under the"
"1972 Bob Rafelson film ""The King of Marvin Gardens"", starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn. In the Garry Marshall film ""Beaches"", a young Hillary Whitney stays with her family at the hotel, where she treats a young C. C. Bloom to chocolate sodas in the Garden Court. The scene was filmed at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles). In the HBO television show ""Boardwalk Empire"", the fictionalized Nucky Thompson lives on the 8th floor of a Ritz-Carlton whose architecture is based on the Marlborough-Blenheim's, rather than that of the actual Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic City that the real Nucky Johnson"
"in the 1980 movie ""Superman II"". Exterior shots of the 1926 (north) building established it as the fictional ""Honeymoon Haven Hotel"" where Clark Kent and Lois Lane represented the ""Daily Planet"" in an effort to identify corruption in the honeymoon industry (though sound stages were utilized for interior shots). Table Rock Welcome Centre The Table Rock Welcome Centre (also known as Table Rock Centre and formerly as Table Rock House) is a retail and observation complex located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada at the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, several hundred feet south of the former rock formation which"
"original incarnation in May 1993, but had its hotel license transferred to the new CBD Hotel in August 1993. It was refurbished for conversion into a restaurant, but remained vacant. In May 1996, prominent hotel and fashion figures John and Merivale Hemmes purchased the disused hotel for $1.48 million, subsequently revealing that it was to be the second venture for their son, Justin Hemmes, after the CBD Hotel. It reopened as the Slip Inn in late 1997 after a $5 million refurbishment. The refurbished hotel attracted a number of prominent celebrities, with Jack Nicholson, Kevin Costner, Keanu Reeves, U2 and"
"Shining"" firmly set in my mind."" ""The Shining"" was published in 1977 and became the third great success of King's career after ""Carrie"" and ""'Salem's Lot"". The primary setting is an isolated Colorado resort called the Overlook Hotel which closes for the winter. In the front matter of the book, King tactfully states, ""Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly in the author's imagination."" King locates the Overlook Hotel near the"
"1980 movie The Shining, Jack Nicholson sings part of this song as ""San Francisco Here I Come"" while lost in the snow covered maze. In the 1981 Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise comedy ""The Cannonball Run"", the Doctor (portrayed by Jack Elam) musses the chorus in the background during a discussion. In what is arguably the most ironic appearance of the song in popular culture, in the 2003 Canadian film ""The Saddest Music in the World"", the song is played by the American team in the final round of the competition (against Serbia), by a multicultural orchestra consisting of violins,"
"Lexington Hotel The Lexington Hotel was a ten-story hotel in Chicago at 2135 S. Michigan Avenue that was built in 1892 (or 1891) for attendees of the Columbian Exposition. The hotel is notable for being Al Capone's primary residence from July 1928 until his arrest in 1931. After the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, some commenters called the hotel ""Capone's Castle."" It was later renamed ""The New Michigan Hotel"" and functioned as a brothel with 400 rooms. The hotel closed in 1980. On April 21, 1986 locked vaults found in the hotel were subject to a live television program called ""The"
"Association (AAA) rates the facilities as a four-diamond resort. and in 2009 named the Grand Hotel one of the top 10 U.S. historic hotels. The Grand Hotel served as a backdrop and one of the settings for the 1980 film ""Somewhere in Time"" starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Every October the hotel hosts an annual convention for fans of the cult classic. The hotel also served as the setting for the 1947 musical comedy ""This Time for Keeps"" starring Jimmy Durante and Esther Williams (after whom the hotel's swimming pool is named). The hotel was the origin of the"
"Sunshine Hotel The Sunshine Hotel is a flophouse established in the 1920s located at 241 Bowery in Manhattan, New York City. It received media attention in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a result of numerous radio and film documentaries about the hotel. The Sunshine Hotel has shrunk in more recent years, with some parts being converted into a restaurant and offices. Upon establishing the hotel in the 1920s, Frank Mazzara reworked the façade in the styles of Art Deco and Commercial. This façade has pale yellow bricks, limestone pediments and panels, and plaques with wreath and torch emblems."
"resorts in general influenced the atmosphere of the motion picture, but as film production began in 1986 Grossinger's Hotel had just closed its doors for the last time. In fact most of the area's hotels had shut down by the mid-1980s so the movie was instead filmed in Virginia and North Carolina. Another key figure in the film, the character of Penny Johnson, was loosely based on entertainment icon Jackie Horner who was also a dance instructor at Grossinger's. It has been rumored that parts of the 1976 Woody Allen film ""The Front"" and the 1974 Dustin Hoffman film ""Lenny"""
"musicians such as Perry Como, Roberta Flack, and Barry Manilow. The hotel became known for a murder in 1983, when Teamsters lawyer and alleged Chicago Outfit mobster Allen Dorfman was shot in its parking lot. Dorfman had recently been convicted of conspiracy to bribe a U.S. Senator and was likely killed to prevent him from releasing information to authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence. The hotel also hosted swingers parties in the 1980s; according to convict Stuart Levine's testimony in two corruption trials, the parties were notorious for sex and heavy drug usage. In the 1990s, the hotel changed"
"The Hotel New Hampshire (film) The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 British-Canadian-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irving's 1981 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, and Nastassja Kinski, and also features Wilford Brimley, Amanda Plummer, Matthew Modine, and a young Seth Green in a supporting role. The film is a co-production from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. In an introductory foreword that he wrote for a later edition of the novel, author Irving stated that he was thrilled when Richardson informed him"
"passed to his brother William Thomas Wearing, a retired medical practitioner. Hipping Hall Hipping Hall is a country house hotel on the border of Lancashire, Cumbria and North Yorkshire, near Kirkby Lonsdale. Opened in 2005 by chemist-turned-hotelier Andrew Wildsmith, the five-star retreat dates back to the 15th century and has nine bedrooms and a three-AA-rosette restaurant serving a menu of locally sourced food. In Autumn 2010, Hipping Hall featured in an episode of BBC2’s ""The Trip"" – a series starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, in which the pair embark on a restaurant tour of northern England. The house was"
"Symphony Hall Phoenix, Orpheum Theatre, the Phoenix Convention Center and the Herberger Performing Arts Center. The hotel can be briefly seen in the opening shot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film ""Psycho"", as the camera pans the then-skyline of downtown Phoenix. Hotel San Carlos (Phoenix) The Hotel San Carlos branch in Phoenix, Arizona, also known as San Carlos Hotel, is both an operating hotel and tourist site. It has been associated with ghost sightings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983 as San Carlos Hotel. Hotel San Carlos is a member of Historic Hotels of"
"touring with traveling shows on the black theater circuit. Another urban legend is that the grand staircase was featured in the film ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). This is not true. But, according to the hotel's concierge, author Margaret Mitchell stayed at the Jefferson during the time she was writing the novel. Her description of the staircase is said to be inspired by the one in the hotel. The 1981 American film ""My Dinner with Andre"", featuring Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, was shot entirely inside the hotel and its restaurant. The Monday after Thanksgiving is the notorious lighting of"
"or so the local gentry tell me, is where every scandal that ever happened happened."" Others report that the Sunset Tower was ""notorious for having the best-kept call girls in Hollywood."" The hotel has also appeared in several feature films, including the 2003 remake of ""Freaky Friday"", ""The Italian Job"", ""Get Shorty"", ""The Player"" and ""Strange Days"". By 1982, a plan to convert the building to condominiums failed, and construction was halted abruptly with residents still living there. The building had deteriorated and was described as ""like something from a war-ravaged land."" At the time, resident Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink"
"Wendy and Halloran present at the ceremony. Jack's spirit is also present, looking on Danny with pride. Back in Colorado, the Overlook is being rebuilt as a resort for the summer, as the ghosts of the original hotel start to wait for more potential victims. The creation of this miniseries is attributed to Stephen King's dissatisfaction with director Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film of the same name. In order to receive Kubrick's approval to re-adapt ""The Shining"" into a program closer to the original story, King had to agree in writing to eschew his frequent public criticism of Kubrick's film, save"
"1959, at a cost of $3.5 million. This 750-seat showroom, whose opening act was comedian Red Skelton, made entertainment a priority at Harrah's. In 1963, Barry Keenan, Joseph Amsler and John Irwin abducted Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 19-year-old son of singer Frank Sinatra, after his performance at the South Shore Room opening for George Jessel. Portions of the Bette Midler film ""Jinxed!"" were shot on location at the hotel in summer 1981 for the summer 1982 release of the film. Other locations used in the film were Harrah's in Reno and the Harrah's Auto Museum also in Reno. Harrah had"
"the earliest videos of the hotel captured on film. Michael Palin stayed at the hotel in 1980, as part of his ""Confessions of a Trainspotter"" journey from London Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh for the BBC show ""Great Railway Journeys of the World"". At this time the hotel was known as the North British. In February 2007 it was confirmed that author J. K. Rowling finished the ""Harry Potter"" series, ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"" at this hotel. Rowling left a signed statement written on a marble bust of Hermes in her room saying; """"JK Rowling finished writing Harry"