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...Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis) to the memorable skinny-dip in the 1985 Cocoon; and on Broadway as a loving, bickering pair in The Gin Game. To her queen, he was the wry, uncommon commoner...
...terrace is a pleasant diversion from shopping for handicrafts. It also offers a chance to bump into celeb guests like Bollywood star Danny Dengzopa or the Dalai Lama. The Dragon Bar, replete with a barman in a black hat and a red silk tunic, also serves a mean gin and tonic-as long as it isn't one of the state's dry days...
...song about the pub with no beer? Well, how about the press club with no hacks? The new Foreign Correspondents Club in Siem Reap, tel: (855-63) 760283, is minimally elegant, fronts a leafy reach of the river, does a mean wood-fired pizza and boasts the coldest gin-and-tonics in town. But, admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure to tempt the odd old Asia bore...
...that turned up in Jordan. "Is it still there?" he wanted to know. Neighbors say looters carried away bottles of Scotch and wine, but they left receipts from Uday's 1989 New Year's party, which seem to confirm he liked a tipple. The revelers downed 12 bottles of gin and 11 cases of beer, plus vodka, champagne and Pepsi...
...mantelpiece. In the big picture, they become part of 80 years' worth of collective memories. The close encounters we profile in the following pages aren't always first meetings; often they are the first significant ones. But sooner or later, they all created a cocktail of personalities--gin and vermouth, nitro and glycerin--that changed us. In a world that often seems out of people's control, these meetings prove that intimacy still matters; that a chance collision of two individuals can make a difference in how millions of the rest of us are enfranchised, enriched, entertained. John and Paul...