Living in hotels
Living in hotels
A number of public figures have notably chosen to take up semi-permanent or permanent residence in hotels.
- Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London. Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death he raised his hand and told the diners "it was the food".[10]
- Inventor Nikola Tesla lived last 10 years of his life at the New Yorker Hotel until 1943 when he died in the hotel room.
- Millionaire, Howard Hughes lived his last few years in a Las Vegas hotel.
Fictitious hotels
Hotels have been used as the settings for television programmes such as the British situation comedies Fawlty Towers and I'm Alan Partridge, the British soap opera Crossroads, and in films such as the Bates Motel in Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Most notably perhaps is the Tipton Hotel, a ficticious hotel in Disney's "The suite life of Zack and Cody". When the show later became a spinoff into "The suite life on deck", the Tipton evolved in the SS Tipton, run by the same company.