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GEFFEN

RECORDS

November

8,

1995

Greetings:

Don

Henley,s

Actual

Miles:

Henley's

Greatest

Hits

felulel

two

brand

new

gems along

with

l0

songs

you'll

easily

recognize

*A

:.

Uoi*Ttutk'

It

hits

the

stores

Monday'

November

20.

Enclosed

you'll

find

an

advance

cassette

and

I

urge

you to

give

a

special

listen

to

"The

Garden

of

Allah,"

*ti"t'

has

advanc"A

tf"

albunito

radio'

(Wt'ut

enclosed

the

lyrics

to

make

it

easier.)

The

song

is

a solo

t.qr.ito

"Hotel California"' or'

"a

tale in

which

the

Devil

visits

a

large

Western

city

and

finds

that

he

has

become

obsolete"

-

the

kind

of

lyncal

assessment

oi oui*.i"t'

tt

"t's-ff.otey'

s

forte'

Don

just

shot

a

video

for

"The

Garden

of

Allalr,,,

ii

**.tr

rirt

oougtas

plays

the

role

of

the

devil.

As

Henley

told

Bitlburd(see

enclosed

column),

the

othernep

track'

"You

Don't

Know

Me

At

All,"

is

in

th;;;e

of

t

gt'v-girl

brealup'

but

*"'

it's

really

about

our

snap

judgments

of

our

nJiiu-r."

ft.

b-9nus

trackis

his

recent cover

ofleonard

Cohen's

..Everybody

rnows'l?om

the

r...nttyi4eased

tribute

album

Tower

Of

Song

the

Songs

inthe

xerox

of

the

packaging'

also

enclosed'


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GEFFEN

RECORDS

NOVEMBER

7,

1995

FOR

IMMEDIATE

RELEASE

DON

HENLEYS

GREATEST

HITS

COLLECTION

INCLUDES

SCATHING

COMMENTARY

lN

NEW

SONG:

"THE

GARDEN

OF

ALI-AH"

LOS

ANGELES,

CA

(November

2,

1995)

-

At

the

end

of a

dark

desert

highway

nearly

20

years

ago,

Don

Henley

wondered

if

the

bright

promise

of

"Hotel

Califomia'could

be

heaven

or

hell.

The

verdic{

is

in

with

his new

song,

"The

Garden

of

Allah,"

which

advances

his

album

Actual

Miles:

Henlev's

Greatest

Hits,

to

be

released

November

20

on Geffen

Records.

Calling

the

song

"a

tale

in

which

the

Devilvisits

a large

Westem

city and

finds that he

has

become

obsolete,'

Henley's

wry

wit

weaves

an epic

story

about

a devil

in

a seersucker

suit

who

"decides

to

have

one

last

hunah

by

appearing

as an

expert

witness

at a

local

trial.'

Henley

continues, "The devil

sarcastically repeats

the credo of the modem

age which is

not

necessarily,doing

the

right

thing,'

but rather'winning

at

any

cost.'

Modem

society

has almost


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this home to the famous from

Valentino to

Dietnch,

Enol

Flynn to

the

Barrymores, F.

Scott

Fitzgerald

to

Tallulah

Bankhead, witnessed

orgies,

drunken

rages,

tense honeymoons,

bloody

brawls,

divorces, suicide and

murder.

lt

was

tom

down in 1959 to make room

for

otfices.

Actual Miles also indudes a bonus track,

Henley's

rendition

of the Leonard

Cohen

classic'Everybody Knows,'which originally

appeared

on the tribute album Tower

Of

Sonq

the

Sonos of Leonard

Cohen.

Added to the album

at the last moment, initial

pressings

will

not list

the

song

in

the artwork or accompanying

booklet.

The

previously-released

tracks

on Actual

Miles begin

with

Henley's

debut

solo album,

Can't

Stand Still

(Asylum

Records,

1982, RIM

certified

gold)

represented

by'Dirty

Laundry"

(gold-awarded

and

Grammy-nominated

for Best

Rock

Vocal).

From

the triple

platinum

Buildino

The

Perfect

Beast

(Getfen

Records, 1984)

comes'The Boys

Of

Summel'

(nominated

for

three

Gramrnys including

Record and

Song

of

the

Year, winner for Best Rock Vocal),

'All

She

Wants

To

Do

ls

Dance,"

"Sunset

Grill,"

and'Not

Enough

Love ln The

World."

On

the

strength

of

Buildins

The

Perfect

Beast,

Henley

was also

Grammy-nominated

for

Producer

of the

Year.

From the

five

times

platinum

The End Of

The lnnocence

(Geffen

Records, 1989,

nominated

for

a

Grammy

as Album

of the Year),

there's

"The

End

Of

The lnnocence"

(Grammy-nominated

for Record

and

Song

of

the Year and winner for Best Rock

Vocal), "The

Last

Worthless

Evening,"

"The

Heart Of

The

Matter,"

"New

York Minute" and

"l

Will

Not Go

Quietly."


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GEFFEN

RECORDS

El|il

HEilLET

THE MUSICAL

BIO

Don Henley entered

the

Nineties as one

of

America's

most respected,

popular

and

critically-

acclaimed

musical

artists.

gold),

Buildino

The


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2

Da'o.'

(#g),

'Sunse

t

Gri,r

(#22),

and "Not

Enough

Love

ln'The

world'(#34).

Henley

was nominated

for

Recold,

song,

and

Producer

of

the

Year

and

again

won

the

Grammy

for

Best

Rock

vocal

(Male)

tor'The

fuys

of

Sumnnr."

Histhird

album,

The

End

of

The

lnnocence

(Geffen Records,

1989)'

produced

by

Henley

and

Kortchmar,

reached

#9

on

the

pop

charts

and

spawned

three

Top

40 singles

including

"The

End

of

The

Innfxx,n@,

(#8),

'The

Heart

of

The

Maftef

(#21),

and

'The

Last

worthtess

Eveningf

(#21)'

Nominated

for

four

Grammys,

including

Record,

Song

and

Album

of the

Year'

Henley

won

for

Best

Rock

Vocal

(Male)

for

the

title

track.

Growing

up

in

the

smalltown

of Linden,

Texas

(population

2,447)'

Henley

listened

to

blues'

country

and

pop.

His

visions,

however,

reached

far

beyond

East

Texas'

The

singer'

songwriter

and

drummer

soon

drew

musical

attention

with

shiloh,

a

band

originally

formed

in

high

school

with

friends

Richard

Bowden

and

Jerry

Sunatt,

which

later

included

cunent

wamer

Bros'

Recods

President

(country

Music

Division)

Jim

Ed

Norman,

who

Henrey

had

met

at

the

university

of

North

rexas.

The

group

moved

to

Los

Angeles

in

1g70

and

that

year

recorded

its

self-titled

debut

for

the

independent

Amos

Records.

A

labelmate

at

Amos

was

guitarist

Glenn

Frey

and

the

two struck

up

a

friendship'

When

shiloh

disbanded,

Henrey

joined

Linda

Ronstadt's

group

where

he

first

began

coilaborating

with

Frey.

ln

faci,

the

two

joined

Ronstadt

for

her

spring

tour

in

1971,

and

played

on

her

eponymously-titled

LP'

But

the

Henley/Frey

duo

had

plans

of

their

own

and

soon,

in

the

fali

of

1971

,

they

founded

the

Eagles'

The

Eagles

pioneered

and

epitomized

a

musicalsiyle

consisting

of

country,

folk,

rhythm

and

blues,

rock

and

pop.

They

became

one

of

the

most

influential

bands

in

America'

The

Eagles

have

not

only

sold

more

than

90

milliod

records

worldwide,

but

have

had

five #1

albums,

four Grammy Awards'

and

numerous

sold-out

world

tours.

The

group

became

the

first

band

in

history

to

have

two

albums

each


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released Hell

Freezes

Over

(Geffen

Records),

an

album of

live Eagles'classics

and

four new

composltions,

which

debuted

at #1.

This album

has

sold

more than

five million

copies

and remained in

the Top

100 nationwide

after almosl

a

year.

The Eagles

resumed

touring

in January

of

1995,

playing

to

sold-out

arenas

and

stadiums in the

U.S.

and Canada

before

taking

their

show

to Japan,

Australia

and

New

Zealand

in November

and

December.

Over

the

years,

Henley

has

written

songs

with

or has

been

heard

on

albums by

Bob Seger, Joni

Mitchell,

Wanen Zevon,

Joe Walsh,

Randy

Newman,

Stevie

Nicks,

Patty

Smyth,

Trisha

Yeanrood,

Jackson

Browne,

Leonard

Cohen,

Aerosmith,

Elton

John

and others.

Aciual

Miles:

Henlev's

Greatest

Hits

was

released

on Geffen

Records

on

November 20,

1995.

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...1s

a board

member

of Americans

For

A

Safe

Future,

an

organization

working

to

protect

our

children,

our

water, our

land and our

future

from

radioac{ive

contamination.

ASF's

top

priority

is

to stop

the

proposed

radioactive

waste

dump

at Ward

Valley,

Califomia

and

to

pioneer

a

safe

radioactive

waste

altemative

disPosal

PolicY.

...|s

involved

with and

supports

numerous

environmental

and

preservation organizations

including

the

American

oceans

campaign,

the

NationalAudubon

society,

the

cousteau

society,

Defenders

of Wildlife,

Environmental

Defense

Fund,

Friends

of

The Earth,

Natural

Resources

Defense

Council,

Siena

Club

Legal

Defense

Fund,

the

Wildemess

Society,

the

Sutton

Avian

Research

Center,

save

our

Springs

(Barton

Springs,

Austin,

Texas),

Mono

Lake

Committee,

santa

Monica

Mountains

Conservancy,

The

Gorilla

Foundation,

Protect

Historic

America,

and

The

Trust

For

Public

Land.

...|n

the spring

of

1g90,

founded

the

Walden

Woods

Project,

a not-for-profit

organization

dedicated

to

protecting

the historic

woods

in Massachusetts

made

famous

by

author/conservationist

Henry David

Thoreau.

Walden

Woods,

widely

recognized

as

the

birthplace

of

the

American

conservation

movement,

was

endangered

by

developers

who

proposed

to build

an

office

building

and

a

condominium

comPlex.

... ln

1991,

Don

compiled

and

edited,

along

with

Dave

Marsh

,

"Heaven

ls Under

Our

Feet,"

a

book containing

personal

essays

written

by

67

prominent

authors,

entertainers,

environmentalists

and

political

leaders

such

as

Jimmy

Carter,

James

Michener,

Kurt

Vonnegut,

Jack

Nicholson,

and Meryl

Streep.

Royalties

from this

p@ect

are

donated

to

the

Walden

Woods

Project'

...Since

1g90,

the

Walden

Woods

Project

has

raised

more

than

$12

million

and

has

purchased

not only

the

sites

threatened

by

development,

but

other

environmentally

sensitive

and

historically

significant

areas

near

Walden

pond

-

a

total

of

86

acres.

The

Project

continues

to

raise

funds

to

protect


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storage

vault is in

place.

Two

other large collections are in the

process

of being

committed to the

lnstitute.

The lnstitute

will

host a visiting scholars

program,

providing

scholars

(both

from

the U.S.

and

abroad) with ovemight accommodations and

access to the library

and the extensive collections.

Symposiums on Thoreau and other

relevant topics

will be held

periodically.

The lnstitute will

provide

outreach via

electronic mail and

computer to students and

teachers.

Cuniculum development for elementary and

secondary

school students

will

be

a

priority.

The

lnstitute

will

sponsor awards

programs

for

outstanding

students

and teachers

(the

teachings of Thoreau

are multi-

disciplinary

and

embody

a

wide anay of

humanities subjects

-

literature,

philosophy, history and ethics.

Noteworthy is the fact that Thoreau and his

contemporaries

have never

before enjoyed

such

popularity.)

The Thoreau Society's executive offices

will

be located

at the lnstitute. Some space will also

be

provided

for

the Emerson Society.

... Established the

Caddo

Lake Scholars

Program

in February

1993

in

Marshall,

Texas.

lt

included

East

Texas Baptist

Universily,

Wylie

College

and Stephen F. Austin University faculty

and

student participants.

lts

purpose

is

to

preserve and enhance

the biological

and

cultural integrity

of

the

Caddo

Lake ecosystem through new leaming and

community education. lt is a field-based

program

which

uses the wetland

ecosystem

of the Caddo

Lake area as a living laboratory and classroom.

Caddo Lake

is

the

largest

natural lake

in

the South, known both for its recreational values

and

its

extensive wildlife

habitat. Caddo Lake supports

Texas' most diverse fish fauna, with 69 species

collec{ed

in one survey. The mature hardwoods in

the area

are

vitalto

the

survival

and

productivity

of

Neo-tropical migratory

birds,

providing critical

nesting habitat during

the

spring and

summer

breeding

season. lt is also

a nesting

ground

for the American

bald eagle. These and other values have

led to the


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GEFFEN

RECORDS

Bl|il

HEilLET

ITHE

GARDEN

OF ALI-AH"

-

BACKGROUND

FROM

DON HENLEY

Ttre song

ls

loosely basd on

a

rccelilly

pnblished book

(aclually,

I

wrote

the

song

before

I

read

the book),

Tlle

Deifr, of Sffir

(llw

Amafuns

Haw

Losf the Sense of Evll),"

vtnfren by Ardrew


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2

we

feel

it,

if

we're

honest

in

ourselves;

we

own

up

to

a

seed

of

bad

that

might

flower

some

day

into

wickedness.

But

not

everybocry

rooks

inside.

nve

rive

in the

mosr

brutal

century

in

human

history,"

Delbanco

Mites,

"but

insted

of

$epping

forward

to take

the credit,

[the

devil]

has rendered

himself

invisible.,

He

blencls

in

with

the

croud

and

weaves

himself

into

the

fabric

of

the

system,

so

that

he

is

at

once

ubiquitous

and

elusive.

Evicfed

from

hell,

satan

takes

dominion

everywhere:

in

each

of

us'

in all

of

us

collectively

and,

most

conveniently,

in

all

our

bes*

enemies.

He

is

not

dead

so

much

as

dispersed'

Delbanco

faithfully

records

the

relentless

advance

of

Enlightenment

rationalism

in the

18th

Century,

of

liberal

individual6m

in

the

19th

Century.

He

keeps

an

eye,

all

the

while,

on

the

devil's

doings'

satan,s

eager

rcsurgenoe

durirg

the

Revolutionary

war,

his gloating

triumph

at

the

outbreak of

the

civil

war.

with

the

rosy

dawn

of

the

20th

century,

Delbanco

notes,

America

experienced

its'great

age

of

scapegoating,,

marked

by

paroxysms of

bigotry,

racism,

misogyny

and

xenophobia.

Heexplainsthisorgyofhateasaformofculturalpanic,,alungeforsomethinggraspable,fora

clear

scheme

of

value,

in a

world

that

had

become

spiritually

incomprehensible.'

Lunge

extends

into

plunge

-

right

through

the

abyss

of

the

Holocaust

-

and

we

land

at last

smack-dab

in

the

'culture

of

ilony,'which

is

where we

sit,

like

Job,

in dust and ashes'

Pos{modemismtakesaparticularlyhardslapfitisawayofthinkingabouttheselfthatis

incompatible

with

personal

responsibility),

as

does

the

radical

relativism

that

robs

us

of solid

ground

for

making

value

iudgments.

Lamenting

our

rooiless

slate,

Delbanco

quotes

Richard

Rorty's

appropriately

ungainly

phrase:

'we

are

now

definitively

without

a'criterion

of

wrongness''

THE STORY LINE

While

all

of

the

foregoing

may

sound

extremely

dark

and

serious,

I want

you

to

know

that

there

is


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3

between

fuht

and

wrong. The

devil sarcastically

repeats

the

credo

of

the modem

ege which is not

necessarily

"doing

the

fight

thing," but

rather

lrinning'

at any cost.

THE

ORIGINAL

GARDEN OF

ALLAH

A 3 1/2-acre

hotel complex

of Spanish-style

h.rngalows

that once

stood at

8150 Sunset

Boulevard, the Garden

of Allah

was built on the

former

estate of Russian

silent-film

actress/producer Alla

Nazimova, a former concert

violinist

who

abandoned

music for

the stage

and screen.

Known

for her

bizane,

highly stylized

movie

rcles,

Nazimova

created

a

sancluary along

similar

lines

for her celebrity

visitors, who included

Enol

Flynn,

Gloria

Swanson, Greta Garbo,

Tallulah Bankhead,

Robert Benchley,

Domthy Parker, and Leopold

Stokowski.

Nazimova

was financially ruined

in

the Great Depression

and

died

a

year

afler

her lasl movie,

'Since

You Went

Away'

(1%4);

following

her death,

a

local bank

assumed control of her retreat

and, in

the 50's,

demolished

it to build

offices.

During

its

three-decade

heyday, the Garden of Allah

was the

site of robberies,

orgies,

drunken rages,

tense

honeymoons, bloody

brawls divorces, suicides,

and murder.

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LOS

ANGELES

TIMES

(November

6'

1995)

HenleyTakes

a

Dispirited

Lookat

L.A.

r

Pop

Music:

Two

decades

after

"Hotel

California."

the

songwriter's

newest

single.

"Thc

Gardcn

of

Allah."

offers

it

satiric

view

of

a

hitrdening

society'

Bv

ROBERT

HILBURN

riues

pop

Muslc

cRlrlc

For

almost

two

decades'

lhe

Eagles'

"Hotel

Califor-

F

"i";;

has

stood

as

a

landmark

in

modern

pop

' '

'

a

I

;;oJ;ilo*

i.pott"nce

reached

bevond

the

fact

tir"i

it

reached

the

top

of

the

pop

charts

and

won

a

d.r.nrny

in

1978

as

the

year's best

single'

"'';ri"lJr

bJfornia"

was

the

most

distinguished

in

a

series

of

Eagles

songs,

including

"Life in

the

F'ast

"f,"nl;'

uno

"besperado"'

lhat

defined

lost

innocence'

p"rson"f

aspiratibns

and

moral

temptations.in

the

'70s

Llift

.u"n

of the insight

and grace

that

such novelists

;."F.'-S;;t;

Fitzgeralld

definld

similar

elements

of

American

societY

in

the'20s'


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which

Henley wrote

with

Glenn

Frey and Don Felder,

the

new song

was

written

with

Stan

Lynch, John

Corey

and Paul Gurian.

"I

don't want

lo

bill

this

as

a

sequel," Henley,

48, says,

sitting

in

a

West Los Angeles

studio

follow-

ing

a

rehearsai

for

the

Eagles'

upcoming

tour

of

Australia

and

Japan.

"I

don't like

sequels.

It

is

just

the same writer

looking

at

the

same

place

20

years

down

the line

.

.

. looking at

good

and

evil,

dark

and

light."

Still,

the images

strike

hard

and

close

to

homet references

to

the

region's naturai

disasters

(fires

to

earthquakes),

the

legendary,

bul

long-gone

Garden

of

Allah hotel

in

Hollywood

and,

most

strikinglY,

the

O.J.

Simpson

murder

trial.

summer,

watching

the lrial and

the

circus

atmosphere. "People

selling

buttons

and

pendants

and

T-shirts

and

people

buying

them," he

saYs

angriiy.

"People

forgot

that

two

people got

brutally

murdered."

The

references

to

exPert

wit-

nesses,

he says,

is

not meant

solelY

as

an attack

on the Simpson

de-

fense

team.

"The

defense

stooPed

PrettY

low'

but I'm

really

talking

about

e4gert

witnesses,

and

they

were

on

both

sides," he

says.

"The

whole con-

cept is

a

joke.

You

can

hire some-

body to corroborate

anYthing."

But

the iegal

sYstem

is

just

one

element

in

a song

that tells

of

the

devil

visiting

a

large

Western

city

called

"Gomorrah-bY-the-Sea"

and finding

lhat

he

is obsolete.

There

are

references

to corPorate

greed

in

lhe

record

business

and

elsewhere,

environmental

destruc-

lion

and

a

ruthless

spirit.

"What

he and his

wife,

Sharon,

have

moved

to

Dallas

that,

"The

Garden

of

Allah" is

a condemnation

of Los

Angeles?

"No,

no," he

says,

quickly.

"We'll

still

be out here

[some].

I

feel

just

as

romantic

about

Los

Angeles

and

just

as

disenchanted

with

il.

In, fact,

both feelings

are

probably

intensified.

I

probably

love it

more and hate

it

more

than

when

I

wrote'Hotel

California.'

"

Henley-

whose greatest-

hits

al -

bum ends

his

lies

rvith

Gefien

Records and makes him

a valuable

record-induslry

free

agent-paus-

es, as

if summarizing

his

thoughts

about the city. There's

a

touch

of

sadness

in

his voice

as he

contin-

ues.

"This

place

was

a lot friendtier

and

a lot

nicer

when I came here 26

years

ago,"

he

says.

"There

are

still

pockets

of civility

here, bul

they

are rapidly

disappearing

as neigh-

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28,

I

995)

'Actual

Miles':

HenleyWon't

Go

Quietly

In our apparenl

preference

for legality

over

morality,

our

culture

increasingly

perceives

no

imperative bul winning in the

moment.

Thus,

we gamble against

eternily

while bending fundamental ':erms

and

beliefs

to suit

short-terrn aims.

As author

Andrew

Delbanco

points

out

in

his absorbing

new

book,

"The

Death of Satan:

How

Americans Have

Lost

The

Sense

Of

Evil"

(Farra:',

Straus and Giroux), the

Hebrew word

Satan,

in the

Old

Testament oliginaill'

meant

obstt'uctor

or ad-

vel'saly,

but

was translated

during the third century by the

Gleeks

into

di,abolos

(from

diu-bollein, to

tear

apart). In the

Greek

rendering

of

the

New Testament,

the devil

became not

a

lempLer

but

sadaitas, an enemy

of

God.

Post-Renaissance

English transiations

made

him

a paradoxieal ereature and then

an ugly

pest.

"By

1900,"

u.r'ibes Delbanco,

"it

was impossible to

reatiach

the

word

'sin'

to

its

original

-sense

(h'ansg'ession,

viola-

tion,

trespass),

because

the target

of the

violation-God-was

gone."

"But

in

the end,"

reckons

singet/songwliter

Don Henley, "we

all

must

answer

for our orvn be-

havior. If our

reply is with

a

code

of convenience,

that, means

the

concept'we're

all

in

this together'

has

gone

to

hell."

Henley's

sentiment

neatly

abridges

the

satanic,

no-exit

scenario of

"?he

Garden Of

Allah," the

seven-minute

suite

that's

one of

three

new songs

(the

others are the blues-rocker "You

Don'l

Know

Me

Al All"

and

Henley's recent

cover

of

Leonard Cohen's "Everybody

Knows")

on

his forthcoming

anthology album, "Actual

Miles:

Henley's

Greatest

Hits"

(Geffen),

due

Nov.21.

"

'The

Garden

Of

Allah' is

a

solo sequel to 'Ho-

tel California,"'

notes Henley.

"To

give you

an

overview

of the

lyrics, the devil appears to be

a

Henley's ode

to the

unseemly spa

is

a churning rock

drama

built

around

Danny Kor-tchmar's

forewarning

lead

guitar

figures,

Sheryi

Crow's

ill-boding

backing vocals, and

Vinnie

Colaiuta's violent

drums. Henley's

voice

is

electronically

reprocessed

duling two

spo-

ken-word intervals

in

which

he

offels

Beelzebub's lament,

the

fallen

angel

explaining

his

role

as

an expett

witness in

a recent

courl

ap-

pearance.

The

problem

is, Lucif'el

is

too

honest

("I'm

a

gun

lbr

hire,

I'm

a saint,

I'm

a

liar

. . .

I

can

get you

any result

you

lii


18/18

/.\

ver

tlmc,

everY

citY

aeqttires

f

lits

svmbols

of

loss.

Htrnrlreds

\-if

of

6uildings,

even

whole

nclghhorhoods,

get

mowed

(lown

end

replaced

hY

somethlng

lnflnitely

eheaPer

and

more

tawdry.

We

watch

th.rm

go

And

brettv

Boon,

for the

most

Part,

we

iors6t.

But

occaslonallY

a lost

eorirer

of

the

cltY

sticks ln

our

tninds,

Iiko

an

old

regret,

and

.

fn,fuees

to budge

from memorY.

Why

do

we

choose

these

Partlc-

ular

places for immortfllity

8n(l not

others? Nobody knows-

But

in our

genernticn

we

Beem

to

have

setl.led

6n

the eouthwest

corner

of

Sunset

.

und

Crescent

Heights

as

the

Prime

iymbol of

all that's bee n

lont in

Los

.Angeles.

0n

that

corner,

for

40

ycars, sot the

Garden

of

Altah

,

tlotel.

'

If

you've

been

lintening

t0 any

of

the

Top

40 stations

on

Lhe

radio

thig

week,

you

muY

have heard

[he

mDst

recent

lumenI

attorrI

the

Oarden,

It

come$

trn the

new song

by

ex-Eagle

Don

IIenleY

that

Tlmefl

critic Robcrt

Hilbttrn

says

mifiht

serve

as

the seqrtel

to

the

Eagle's

"Flotel

California."

The

new

aong

is

titled

"The

Carden

of

Atlah"

and

telle

a

tale

of thc Devll

ieflecting

acidly

on

modern-daY

Loe

Angeles as

opposed

to

the old

daye.

The

eymbol

of the

old

daYs,

'.of

coutse,

is the

0arden.

IL's

the

seme Garden

thnt

made

un

appearance

in

a

short-lived

comic

strip

starring n

oad

gorilla

nflmod

Rudy.

RudY

and

his friends,

lncludlng

a

Parrot,

lived

at

the

Garden

and

algn

reflected

on

modern-day

Los

Angeleo,

also

rtnfavorably.

i

LOS

ANGELES

TIMES

(November

8,

1995)

[ssay

ROBnRT

A.J()NES

Midnight

in

the

Garden

of

Allah

Llharlcn

Btttterwor[h,

80t

ililil'""-'"-*li:gi'

-*-M:

ffi

itchell

song atrout

,il

l,os Anfieles

in which

'ffi

she

singe,

''Thev

Pavcrl l"1

i:ixlff

-?i,lv'

1Ll

rlil

,[',11itii."fillil,ll""

ffi

AnvwaY'soc'on

ffiffiff

and on. 0f the dozens

lffi

of

references

to

t,he

ffi

Garrlen

in thie news-

,ilffi

l,l:H

llfi,:il{11}:

ffi

il+:"#;*ff***

m

crimes we have lh

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Garden

of

Allnh,

0f course,

it'

Vef

y.

ldAnrel*Trnci

attn'sphere.

Thc

press. hird

"#-'rlrih-ri-';il;;',

The

Garden

of Allah

Hotel,

bulldoeed

in

fact

but

not in collective

L.A. consciousness.

ootvthegtrnitsrelenl'less

;;;.

ri'"."&;;;;:gqi:

l;:lllm:i$:;';l'Ji'f;

ilpartmenl"

hililding

that

&ttrrctod

Jimmy

$tewar[,

HenrY Fonda aud

Myrnir

Loy.

The

Mocsmbo

and

Ciro's,

another

nightchtb

of the ora,

wr.re within

wnlking

distsnce.

All of

them

hnve

vanished.

blrt

they

have

not

$tuck

ln

our

mirld$'

,

Onl-v

Ltrc

(inFk:n

han manilged

that.

'the

rllffnrence

comes

not

from

thc

fiilr(lrn'$

archito(trlrr-l

or

it$ conl;rl-

butkrn

tn llollywood

pool

culturo.

It

ffcflm$

[0

cflme h'om

its

rol{i

ris

the

nurtu:'ing

plnee of

n

commuili'

ty.

The

famous

ghontr

of thr

Ganlen

hnd a

good

time,

and

thoY

harl

a goor.l

time

together.

.

llnderstanrl,

tho*e

peoplc

litcd at

lhe

Garrlen

for ntonths

or

Year8

llt

a time,

they

were

not nishtly

guests.

Today,

celebrities eithcr

6uv

or

renl.

a

five-berlroom

in Bel-

Aii

nr

the

Prllsade"q.

It

is

harrl to

inr;rgine

any

nf

the

Present-daY

erowrl

accepting

the

small

aPart'

ments

ut.

t.he

Garden.

Yet Bogart

rnrl

Sarrymore

and

the

others dld

jr

tst

that.

'ffiqg

ilid

il

lpcrluge

of the

fun'

I

sqlspect,

txrtlr

innorent

and

wicked.

The.y

rlirl

rl,

hecituse they

wantcd

a

place

to

hang

out,

to be easy

wilh

t.heir

friends.

For

30

Yeare

or eo,

the Carden

offtred

them

all

th0se

things,

and

theY wisely

nccepted"

That'n

thn

HollYwood

we

miss

when

we miss

the Gnrden'

Thtl

neoole antl

the stories

and

the

l,hni..l

ti*.*,

and

the

knowledge

thaL

uur modern

L.il.

canPot

I

repeat Lhose

lirncs. That's

why

thc

(lirclen

s loss

hltrts,

why it

won't

loave

our

memorY.

Ae

HenleY

nuYs'

"the

clock

ntrikee

midnight

at,

lhe

Gar

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