El gran salto
In addition to its celebrity guests and its contributions to political parlance, the Blackstone has a place in popular culture. Among its uses in cinema, it hosted the banquet where Al Capone smashes a guest's head with a baseball bat in the Brian De Palma film "The Untouchables", a party in "The Hudsucker Proxy", and Tom Cruise's pre-pool tourney stay in "The Color of Money". Also, the 1996–2000 television series "Early Edition" was set in this building, featuring a man (Kyle Chandler) who lives in the hotel and receives the newspaper a day in advance.