Annie Fitzsimmons is a freelance travel and hotel writer based in Manhattan.

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In 2003 Kathy held the enviable position of Writer in Residence at The Savoy Hotel.

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Jack, a writer, takes a job as a hotel caretaker for a year but becomes possessed by the evil spirits in the building and attacks his family.

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That night, from his hotel, he called an Argentine writer he had known back in Buenos Aires who lived in Paris now.

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The beach is overlooked by the Burgh Island Hotel, a favourite haunt of writer Agatha Christie, and has been a location for several films.

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Working in Rwanda and South Africa, the writer-director, Terry George, convincingly stages the horrors outside the hotel: the paralyzing fear in the night, the vilely inciting radio broadcasts, the chaos and arbitrary madness of the slaughter.

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