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Apparently, Roosevelt Hotel revamping mastermind Amanda Scheer Demme's definition of the "really great, interesting people" that she wanted populating the new Tropicana bar doesn't include "guests of the hotel." After all, anybody with a credit card can book a room without being screened for their "great" or "interesting" qualities, potentially threatening to skew the great/interesting balance of the poolside area. A reader tells the LA.comfidential blog:

The excitement the hotel has about having Amanda Demme host her private parties at the Tropicana Bar in the pool area seems to obscure [the hotel's] vision when it comes to offering service to their guests. When we stayed there recently, the pool was closed to hotel guests at random times during my stay - 5PM, 6PM, 2-6PM on a Sunday afternoon of the long weekend - and unfriendly and intimidating bouncers sit at the entrance to the pool to make sure no hotel guests enter during these times. At times the only restaurant in the hotel was closed for a private party at the same time as the pool was closed, leaving guests nowhere to have a drink or cup of coffee.

We don't see the situation improving in the near future, as draining, scrubbing, and refilling the pool after hotel guest use to prepare for the pristine bodies of Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan is both time- and cost-prohibitive. We hear they have a lovely pool up the street at the Hollywood Y, perfectly suitable for a quick dip during randomly scheduled party closures.