All The Gin Joints

Author : Mark Bailey
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203986
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of All the Gin Joints written by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes. Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski to the set of Night of the Iguana holding a towline in one hand and a cocktail in the other. Barely legal Natalie Wood would let Dennis Hopper seduce her if he provided a bathtub full of champagne. Bing Crosby’s ill-mannered antics earned him the nickname “Binge Crosby.” And sweet Mary Pickford stashed liquor in hydrogen peroxide bottles during Prohibition. From the frontier days of silent film up to the wild auteur period of the 1970s, Mark Bailey has pillaged the vaults of Hollywood history and lore to dig up the true—and often surprising—stories of seventy of our most beloved actors, directors, and screenwriters at their most soused. Bite-size biographies are followed by ribald anecdotes and memorable quotes. If a star had a favorite cocktail, the recipe is included. Films with the most outrageous booze-soaked stories, like Apocalypse Now, From Here to Eternity, and The Misfits, are featured, along with the legendary watering holes of the day (and the recipes for their signature drinks). Edward Hemingway’s portraits complete this spirited look at America’s most iconic silver-screen legends. “This book is like being at the best dinner party in the world. And I thought I was the first person to put a bar in my closet. I was clearly born during the wrong era.” —Chelsea Handler

Author : Mark Bailey
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565125932
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of All the Gin Joints written by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes. Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski to the set of Night of the Iguana holding a towline in one hand and a cocktail in the other. Barely legal Natalie Wood would let Dennis Hopper seduce her if he provided a bathtub full of champagne. Bing Crosby’s ill-mannered antics earned him the nickname “Binge Crosby.” And sweet Mary Pickford stashed liquor in hydrogen peroxide bottles during Prohibition. From the frontier days of silent film up to the wild auteur period of the 1970s, Mark Bailey has pillaged the vaults of Hollywood history and lore to dig up the true—and often surprising—stories of seventy of our most beloved actors, directors, and screenwriters at their most soused. Bite-size biographies are followed by ribald anecdotes and memorable quotes. If a star had a favorite cocktail, the recipe is included. Films with the most outrageous booze-soaked stories, like Apocalypse Now, From Here to Eternity, and The Misfits, are featured, along with the legendary watering holes of the day (and the recipes for their signature drinks). Edward Hemingway’s portraits complete this spirited look at America’s most iconic silver-screen legends. “This book is like being at the best dinner party in the world. And I thought I was the first person to put a bar in my closet. I was clearly born during the wrong era.” —Chelsea Handler

Author : Martin Turnbull
Publisher : Rothesay Press
ISBN 13 : 9781737495604
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Gin Joints written by Martin Turnbull and published by Rothesay Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Valenti has never fit into his swaggering family of overbearing loudmouths. Even worse, the world is at war again and Uncle Sam has stamped his draft notice "4-F" - the ultimate rejection - because of a rare eye condition that has left Luke unable to see colors. So instead, he dreams of escaping Brooklyn for the beaches of Montauk. That is, until a stolen prop from The Maltese Falcon pitches him down a reluctant path to Hollywood. Luke is tasked with returning it to Warner Brothers, where Humphrey Bogart is about to embark on the movie that will launch his career into the stratosphere: Casablanca. But the production is chaotic. Bogie is desperately unhappy in his marriage. Ingrid Bergman feels lost and alone. The script is constantly rewritten, and the overbearing director hates that damned song. Nobody thinks this movie will amount to anything-except the guy who sees in black and white. Finally, Luke has found his way in. But studio stuntman Gus O'Farrell wants him out again: Luke has replaced him as the star's stand-in, and Gus is having none of it. Bogie warns Luke to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. It's great advice, but when a chance to reverse his 4-F status presents itself, Luke needs to learn that distinguishing friends from enemies can be a tricky business in a land where artifice blurs reality like murky shadows in a back alley. From the author of the Hollywood's Garden of Allah novels comes a story set against the making of one of the most beloved films of all time-and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Author : Michael Turback
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781466282988
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Gin Joints written by Michael Turback and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Thinking Woman's/Drinking Man's Guide to NEW Gin Cocktails, created by America's celebrity mixologists. It stops in the jazziest bars, lounges and clubs, coast to coast, and comes away not only with chic and delicious cocktail recipes and how-to-create tips from notable barmen and barwomen, but also top chefs' advice on hors d'oeuvre and appetizer pairings. The armchair imbiber needs this sexy volume of gin lore and new secrets to turn into party-giver of the year.

Author : Scott M. Deitche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941947005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cocktail Noir written by Scott M. Deitche and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "look at the intertwining of alcohol and the underworld--represented by authors of crime both true and fictional and their glamorously disreputable characters, as well as by real life gangsters who built Prohibition-era empires on bootlegged booze. [The book] celebrates the potent potables they imbibed and the watering holes they frequented, including some bars that continue to provide a second home for crime writers"--Amazon.com.

Author : Claudio Sanchez
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 161398118X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill Audio written by Claudio Sanchez and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROCK 'N' ROLL WILL DIE! Kill Audio, on the other hand, can't. An immortal troll charged with balancing music in the land of Sight & Sound, Kill Audio seeks out the musical "fathers" of every genre...but someone's always one step ahead of him. With his team of a talking pillow, a skeleton in a beaver suit, and a drug-addled chicken, will Kill Audio be able to restore the balance before it's too late? Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez (THE AMORY WARS) and Chondra Echert (KEY OF Z) team up with red-hot artist Mr. Sheldon (DEADPOOL) for a disgustingly enjoyable piece of rock 'n' roll you'll never forget!

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312424688
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Prose written by Paul Auster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated author of "The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions" and "Oracle Night" now offers an essential collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists.

Author : Aljean Harmetz
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Round Up the Usual Suspects written by Aljean Harmetz and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1992-11-26 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the making of Casablanca offers fresh insights into and revelations about the people, the period, and the countless details that all had a hand in shaping the quintessential movie-lover's movie.

Author : John I Carney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dislike written by John I Carney and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media has its place, but it's not the right forum for the kind of full, open-minded discussions we need about political issues or matters of faith. In this book, intended for either individual reading or small-group discussion, the author takes a faith-based look at the ways we misuse social media, including issues like political polarization, online misinformation and plagiarism. Discussion questions are provided for small group study.

Author : James Delingpole
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330493352
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinly Disguised Autobiography written by James Delingpole and published by Picador. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1984 and wearing the bad clothes and bad hairstyle that everyone wore back then because they didn't realise it was the early Eighties, Josh starts his first year at Oxford busting with hopes, ambitions, and ludicrously unrealistic expectations. Brideshead has just been on TV, the Sloane Ranger Handbook has laid down the rules, and now all Josh needs is to find his own Sebastian Flyte (preferably with a tasty sister). But what he also wants to do is to take lots of drugs, hang with the cool set, wear black, lose his virginity, shag lots of chicks and listen to the Smiths and New Order. The two aims, he discovers, are not necessarily compatible. But then very few of his ambitions are, for Josh is a man who wants everything and isn't going to stop until he gets it. Or, at least, until ten years of heavy-duty reality intervene to hint that life might be a touch messier and more complicated than was dreamt of in his philosophy. THINLY DISGUISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the story of that rude awakening, from the horrors of Fleet Street to the thrills of the LA riots, the Es at the Wag to trips at Glastonbury, from Oxford to London via Venice, Spetses, Laguna Beach and Bromsgove: the highs, the lows, and even a tiny bit of romance.