Checking In: Diplomat's $100-million update adds luxe to leisure

What would you do with US$100 million?
In the case of the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Fla., that cool chunk of cash bought a long, languid dip in the fountain of youth.
This beauty queen has enjoyed as storied a past as any 60-year-old party girl. Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra sang. Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal and Jerry Seinfeld killed. Almost every U.S. president since the hotel’s opening in 1958 — including John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, but not Donald Trump — has