Bemelmans

And after many years of filming on location — among them Versailles, the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Bemelmans and the Chateau Marmont — for “Priscilla,” Coppola had to build sets and “find Graceland in Toronto.”

If I had the opportunity to buy him a drink — say, at Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, a suitably conservative locale — I imagine we could have a friendly conversation, because it would not be undone by lies.

In New York City, a new generation is flocking to historic venues — Bemelmans in the Carlyle Hotel, the Plaza Hotel, the Rainbow Room — to experience the glamour and sophistication of the classic cocktail lounges and hotels.

“Tom may be in Logan’s camp, but it’s not an easy camp to be in,” Macfadyen said on a February afternoon, sipping a bitters and soda in Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel.

The book is generously intertextual, with allusions to “Moby-Dick” and “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Great Expectations”; to John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Graham Greene; and, more surprisingly, to Ludwig Bemelmans’s “Madeline.”