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SYNOPSIS - PLOT OF HOTEL CALIFORNIA, DIARIES, SECRETS AND, SCANDALS

A ground-breaking drama based on a true and compelling story of the Gawzner family who owned California's oldest beachfront resort located in Montecito, California.

The story begins with the dynamic and charismatic, Paul Gawzner, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who fled for his life from Russia to America to seek sanctuary and success. Paul Gawzner later purchased the luxury ocean side hotel during 1939. It served as a social hob-knob for the local community in Montecito, California and a world class consortium of individuals. The consortium listed U.S. Presidents, Hollywood movie moguls, Hollywood stars, other celebrities and the social elite worldwide who revived the hotel's spirit, status and image.

Paul hired a new employee, bell captain, Grover Cleveland Barnes. He is a African-American from Texas who changed the public face forever of the Miramar Hotel and the Montecito community with his infectious smile, spiritual and professional demeanor. As aging Paul Gawzner dies in his sprawling Montecito oceanfront hotel after uttering out enigmatic words of "fake, fools and frauds" to his son, William Gawzner who never understood what the words behind the great hotelier dying thoughts meant. William eventually takes on the complete hotelier responsibility after becoming emotionally devastated that his father lied to him years ago to quit his career job at Hilton Hotel Corporation as he would make a will of the hotel property to him. But instead, the will was legally given to Paul Gawzner's young widowed wife, Gracie Hammond. Despite the hard work and dedication of William Gawzner at the hotel he continued the success of the family's fortune.

William would always asked Grover what were the meaning of those enigmatic words that came from his father. Grover would slowly and cleverly revealed those words of meaning to him as Grover would often scribble daily account of events in his personnel diary during employment.



James Gawzner, son of William Gawzner was also a very successful corporate professional who worked for Hilton Hotel Corporation and was called to duty by his father to quit his career job and to work at the Miramar Hotel to restore the hotel's direction, image and profits who established a surrogate father relationship with Grover. At the same time Jim's brother, Billy Gawzner decided to join Joan Baez's left wing school to big escape from the American socialist and capitalist system as he was prevented from going to Russia as he became emotionally close to his communist ideas and beliefs in result as he committed suicide at the hotel's beach cottage in room 101. The Gawzner family immediately went into great depression which started the downfall of the Miramar Hotel.


June Gawzner Outhwaite was involved in illegal corruption and collusion reportedly with a prestigious legal law firm in Santa Barbara which cost the family their treasure hotel and $31,500,000 US Dollars that were hijacked and absconded in disguise of a charitable trust.  
http://www.montecitojournal.net/archive/13/12/866/

Hotel Guest List of World Class Recognizable Figures and Celebrities who lodged at the Miramar Hotel

World class figures and celebrities who were personally known by the Gawzner family, had visited and lodged at the Miramar Hotel does give worldwide mass appeal and marketability to the to the movie, HOTEL CALIFORNIA, DIARIES, SECRETS, AND SCANDALS. The Hollywood movie industry and its worldwide audience can definitely relate to and associate with in the motion picture:


The Prince of Wales
The Queen of the Netherlands
The Pillsburys
The Studebakers
The Rockefellers
The Duponts


World class figures and celebrities who had visited the Miramar Hotel since 1949:


President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Woodrow Wilson

President Ronald Reagan

President Richard Nixon

President Jimmy Carter

Senator George McGovern

Vice President Hubert Humphrey

Vice President Al Gore

Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan

Art Linkletter, radio and television celebrity

Steve Allen, film, television and radio star

Ray Baldwin, U.S. Senator

George F. Ball, E.F. Hutton and Company

Donald Banker, President of Lions Club International

Francis Biddle, U.S. Attorney General

Avery Brundage, President of International Olympic Committee

Julia Child, Notable chef and television personality

Barnaby Conrad, Notable book author and sculptor

Charles Bronson, Hollywood and television actor

Marilyn Horne, Opera singer with the Metropolitan Opera

Ray Bradbury, World class  fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer

Hal Roche, Founder of Hollywood and Comedian

Robert Mitchum, Hollywood actor

Ross McDonald, Hollywood actor

Ann Francis, Hollywood and television actress

Ronald Coleman, British actor

David Niven, Hollywood actor

James Dean, Hollywood actor

James Brolin, Hollywood actor

Steve McQueen, Hollywood actor
Mel Torme, Hollywood Actress, Bo Derek
Clint Eastwood, Hollywood actor, director, producer

Duke Ellington, World class musician

William Randolph Hearst, Newspaper & Media Mogul

Cecil D. DeMille, Hollywood Film Director

Errol Flynn, Hollywood Actor

Gene Hackman, Hollywood Actor
Hal Roche, Founder and maker of Hollywood's first technicolor color movie/Comedian

BB King, World class musician

Tower of Power, Music Band

Les McCann, Jazz piano player and vocalist

Chuck Mangione, World class musician

Charles Lloyd, Jazz Saxophonist and Music Composser

Johnny Cash, World calss musician

Redd Foxx, Comedian Celebrity and Television Actor

Shirley MacLaine, Hollywood Actress

Tallulah Bankhead, Hollywood Actress

Eva Marie Saint, Hollywood, Broadway theater and Television actress

Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Actress and Gossip Columnist

Groucho Marx, Celebrity Comedian and Hollywood actor

Gladys Lloyd Robinson, wife of Edward G. Robinson

Ricky Nelson, World Class Musician

Priscilla Presley, Hollywood actress

Paul Newman, Hollywood Actor

Fess Parker,  Hollywood Film and Television Actor

Jean-Michel Cousteau, French explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer

Sam Donaldson, ABC television White House news correspondent

Leo Durocher, Vice President of NBC

Garrett Fitzgerald, Prime Minister for Republic of Ireland

Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator of Arizona

Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator of California

Billy Graham, Reverend

Tom Hayden, Assemblyman of California

Sir Edmund Hillary, Explorer of the North Pole and South Pole

Aldous Huxley, World Class Novelist and Essayist

Ann Landers, National News Media Columnist

John McCone, Director of CIA

Robert J. Lagomarsino, Member of Congress

E.S. Crocker Jr., Crocker National Bank
Lance Reventlow, Revlon Corporation
Mrs. E.P. Remington and Sons, Remington Fire Arms
Mrs. Herbert F. and Mary Otis, Otis Elevator Company
Merrill Brown, Microsoft Corporation

James Mitchner, Celeb Book Author

Huell Howser, Television Producer and Personality

Peter Corterier, Undersecretary of Federal Republic of Germany

Gerard Coste, Consul General of France

H.E. Frank Corner, New Zealand Ambassador to United States

Baron Philippe Roth de Rothschild, Vintner and Poet of France

Chuck Downs, Deputy Director of Regional Affairs at the Pentagon

John K. Emerson, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

Major General Richard L. Engel, Commander of U.S. Air Force

Charles K. Fletcher Jr., Member of America's Cup Organizing Committee

Garrett Fitzgerald, Prime Minister - Republic of Ireland

Fulton A. Freeman, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Hollywood actress, director, producer and writer

David Cosby, World Class guitarist, singer, and songwriter of music band Crosby, Sills and Nash

Tony Trabert, World Class Tennis Champion and long-time Tennis Author, TV commentator, Instructor, and Motivation Speaker

David Gardner, President - University of California

General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander of Europe

Alexander M. Haig Jr., U.S. military leader and diplomat, and U.S. Secretary of state

General Curtis LeMay,  Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force

Sir Richard Livingston, Vice Chancellor at Oxford University

Zubin Mehta, Music Director and Conductor at Los Angeles Philharmonic

Pierre Salinger, Foreign Correspondent - Press Secretary

Pete Wilson, Governor and Senator of California

Robert Kennedy, U.S. Senator of Massachusetts


Celebrities who personally interacted with James Gardner at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California:


Ricky Nelson
Frank Sinatra
John Wayne
Dean Martin
Robert Stack
Paul Newman


Other celebrities James Gawzner had interacted with and have stories to reveal:


Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Jewish- American gangster
David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Rod Laver, Professional Tennis Player
Tony Trabert, Professional Tennis Player
Jane Russell, Hollywood Actress
Magic Johnson, Professional NBA basketball player
John Wayne, Hollywood Actor
Dean Martin, Hollywood Actor
Bing Cosby, world class singer and Hollywood actor
Bob Hope, Comedian Celebrity and Hollywood actor

Joan Baez, World Class singer

Dean Martin, Hollywood Actor

Frank Sinatra, World Class Singer and Hollywood Actor
Robert Stack, Hollywood Actor

Jonathan Winters, Hollywood actor
Freddie Hubbard, Jazz Trumpeter
Barbara Streisand, World class singer
Stevie Nicks, World Class singer

PERTINENT INFORMATION OF THE FILM PROJECT

Projected box office gross film profits worldwide of the film (excludes product placement and ancillary markets) approximately $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 US Dollars  

Estimate Budget of the film: $39,000,000 US Dollars
This amount exclude any estimate of bank fess. bank legal costs or bank interest on the production loan. It includes the full 10% contingency and completion guarantee fee and a projected cash flow schedule referencing the projected draw dates under the proposed facility.

Genre of the motion picture:
Drama and Historical/Classical time period

Shooting locations of the motion picture: New York, Los Angeles, Montecito, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas  

MPAA rating of the motion picture: Rated R

Target Audience/Age Group of interest:
X Generation Adults 18 - 34 years old/Older Class Adults 35 - 100 years old

Production Schedule:

Stage of movie project: Development
Start of pre production: February, 2011

Start of principal photography: April, 2011

Wrap/Completion of principal photography: July, 2011

Start of post production (film lab and editing, music composition, etc.): July, 2011

End of post production: July, 2011

Back end delivery date (including allowances for unforeseen circumstances): August, 2011

Reputable Completion Guarantor that has interest to bond the film project: Film Finance

Reputable Film Directors that has shown interests in the motion picture project: Jason Reitman, Spike Lee, Gary Grey and Marc Forster

Reputable A list talent that has shown interests in the motion picture project: Oprah Winfrey, Julia Louise Dreyfus, Anthony Hopkins, George Clooney, Kevin Costner, Mickey Rourke, Paris Hilton, Jamie Fox, Hayden Panettiere

Reputable Hollywood studio distribution company interests to distribute the motion picture theatrically domestic and/or worldwide: Warner Bros. and Film Yard