Copley Square Hotel Pope. The seven-floor hotel is mainly constructed of brick. The U-shaped building is strongly supported by pilings driven to a depth of 70 feet below the street level. The hotel was the election headquarters for President William McKinley, and has hosted many celebrities including sports legend Babe Ruth and jazz artists Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. Most recently, in its lower lobby, the former Cafe Budapest, it was host for the filming of scenes in the 1992 comedy movie "HouseSitter" starring Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin. On January 24, 2008, the Copley Square Hotel closed for a multimillion-dollar
Ron Silver trial. From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors' Equity Association. He played a film producer in "Best Friends" opposite Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn (1982), an actor in "Lovesick" (1983) and a film director in "Mr. Saturday Night" (1992). Silver portrayed a corrupt, rogue senator in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller "Timecop". On television in 1998, he starred opposite Kirstie Alley for season two of her TV comedy series "Veronica's Closet". In other films based on true stories, Silver portrayed tennis player Bobby Riggs in the TV docudrama "When Billie Beat Bobby" (2001), about