By Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times

“Look at these guys,” Cyndi Lauper whispers discreetly as she nods toward a straitlaced couple strolling through the Sunset Marquis. “I wonder what they think of a rock ‘n’ roll hotel.”

The 72-year-old pop icon is hanging out on a September afternoon in a leafy alcove at the clubby musician’s spot that’s been her go-to in Los Angeles since the early 1980s.

She’s seen a lot in her days here: That room over there is where she dyed the Bangles’ hair before they appeared as a band of pirates in the music video for her song “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough”; over there by the pool is where she used to spy Roy Scheider “turning to a wilted prune,” she recalls, as he lay in the sun.

Back then, Lauper was a disruptive new star raising eyebrows with her chaotic fas

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