The Formosa, a legendary Hollywood hangout, just got a fresh coat of paint as part of an impressive $2.4 million restoration
has long attracted movie stars, musicians and gangsters, as well as serving for the setting of an iconic scene in “L.A. Confidential.”
At a pre-opening event, documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong showed off a new display of historic lobby cards and movie stills featuring Chinese and Chinese American actors that he curated for the Formosa.In another corner, Terry Moore, an Oscar-nominated actress who was said to be secretly married to Hughes, remembered how she and the reclusive millionaire used to pop over to the Formosa after long nights of screening movies at the Samuel Goldwyn studios across the street.
“We wanted to make it more appetizing by today’s standards, but not stray too far away,” Green explains, “We tried David’s food, it was so good and homey, perfect bar food.”
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