Your Drinking Partner From The Golden Age?

[HadleyH]

It was said that Prince Yusopov and his fellow conspirators listened to a recording of Yankee Doodle on a gramophone while awaiting the arrival of their "guest of honor." I wonder which recording it was?

You are right! I looked it up and yes that's correct! ...." Yusupov's and his co-conspirators steadied their nerves by playing Yankee Doodle Dandee over and over again" ..... of all songs Yankee Doodle.... that's amazing! :dizzy:

 

[Mr Vim]

Honestly he isn't an obvious choice I think, but Ray Bradbury was a screenwriter in the heyday of film making, he's writing wonderful books filled to the brim with nostalgia and I think he'd be a great guy to sit down with over a nice single malt and parlay the breeze.

 

[Tomasso]

There is a distinction to be made between hanging with people who are interesting and those who are fun. I look at the former to be the main course and the latter to be the desert. You know....like stopping by Tallulah Bankhead's apartment after dining with Albert Einstein.

 

[Flipped Lid]

I'll pick John Huston because he led an unbelievably interesting life and also because he had one of the greatest speaking voices of all time. I could listen to him for hours. This is a great photograph.

 

[rue]

There is a distinction to be made between hanging with people who are interesting and those who are fun. I look at the former to be the main course and the latter to be the desert. You know....like stopping by Tallulah Bankhead's apartment after dining with Albert Einstein.

I concur

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Since I don't drink I think it would have been fun to hang with Raymond Chandler over some chop suey at the famed Far East Cafe in Little Tokyo which was one of his favorite hangouts.

 

[HadleyH]

There is a distinction to be made between hanging with people who are interesting and those who are fun. I look at the former to be the main course and the latter to be the desert. You know....like stopping by Tallulah Bankhead's apartment after dining with Albert Einstein.

Yes Tomasso of course! Yes!!!

would having drinks with Rasputin himself be fun enough for ya?


I think it'd be interesting+fun


but then, that's just moi

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I remember years ago SNL did a skit called The Death of Rasputin with Dan Aykroyd as Prince Yusopov and John Belushi (who else?) as Rasputin.

 

[HadleyH]

I remember years ago SNL did a skit called The Death of Rasputin with Dan Aykroyd as Prince Yusopov and John Belushi (who else?) as Rasputin.

yes yes long live Belushi i mean.. Yusopov ... no Rasputin lol

(lovin' this thread )

 

[Tomasso]

Since I don't drink I think it would have been fun to hang with Raymond Chandler .....

Something tells me that he wouldn't have much time for a teetotaller.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Actually I'm not averse to alcohol as I will have a drink if the occasion calls for it -- I just don't find myself in very many occasions to do so.

 

[Tomasso]

Well, chances are he wouldn't have even looked you in the eye until you shared a fifth with him.

As Kasper Gutman once said: I distrust a man who says "when." If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

 

[jamespowers]

That they dance?

I'd rather drink with the original Rat Pack. Much as I love to hear Sinatra sing, and think Dino would be a laugh riot. I think Bogey and Co would suit my personality better.

Amen.
Let's be clear as to who was in the original rat pack:
Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Judy Garland, Sid Luft and "super-agent" Swifty Lazar, with a supporting cast that included Juliet Prowse, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ava Gardner and Kim Novak.
I'll take Ava Gardner or Kim Novak of Nutty MacLaine anyday.

 

[HodgePodge]

Actually I'm not averse to alcohol as I will have a drink if the occasion calls for it -- I just don't find myself in very many occasions to do so.

"I drink when I have occasion; and sometimes when I have no occasion." - Cervantes