"Stanley Bard, a of innkeepers who nurtured talented writers and artists and tolerated assorted deadbeats as the manager and part-owner of the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan for more than 40 years, died on Tuesday in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 82. ... While Mr. Bard presided over it, the Chelsea was also home to , the film star; the artists , (Christo wrapped Jeanne-Claude, his wife, there); the singer-songwriters and (who wrote a song about it, “Chelsea Hotel #2”); and the punk rock musician (who caricatured Mr. Bard in a horror novel he wrote). The Chelsea was where worked on “,” where wrote “,” where wrote “” and where wrote “.” Mr. Bard lent long-term tenants money and tolerated their overdue bills; he embraced their eccentricities and encouraged their cultural ambitions."
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