Roosevelt redux. (The Roving Eye).

Marilyn Monroe posed poolside, Clark Gable engaged in a famous penthouse tryst there and Errol Flynn purportedly mixed bootleg gin in the barbershop.

Hollywood's landmark Roosevelt Hotel, built in 1927 by Charles E. Toberman (who also did the Hollywood Bowl and Pantages Theatre), is in the second phase of a $10 million facelift that includes a new restaurant and day spa next to the Olympic-sized swimming pool (where Monroe posed for a suntan lotion ad).

The work is scheduled for completion in June 2004. Until then, the hotel will try to draw people in with a discounted room rate. (Already completed is the enlargement and refurbishment of the hotel's 305 rooms.)

The Roosevelt, of course, hosted the first ever Academy Awards, and it sits across the street from the event's new home, the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland entertainment/retail complex.

During its heyday in the 1930's, the hotel operated a swank nightclub called Cinegrill that became a hangout for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Salvador Dali, who was designing movie sets at the time.

To get a sense of Hollywood in those days, stroll through sunken Spanish-style lobby and ask the staff to point out where Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill bumped into each other on the way to refilling their ice buckets.

The club has been refurbished into a 140-seat tiered cabaret and screening room that will be the home of singer-songwriter Michael Feinstein. Hence its name: Feinstein's at the Cinegrill.