If they did that, they probably decided it was a good idea after watching 'The Passenger'
The director built the hotel specifically so he could make this penultimate, several minutes long, tracking shot of the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OLg1n8y6M - the scene narrated by Nicholson who stars in it.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Thu 16 Jun 2011, 12:35,
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maybe
I thought it was cos everyone was doing loads of coke...
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camp freddy well, would you look at that!,
Thu 16 Jun 2011, 12:38,
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