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...seen as a gritty pastime for middle-aged men, played in smoky back rooms with battered cards and grimy stacks of chips. The game reeked of flop sweat, cheap whiskey and chewed cigar stubs. And not long ago, in Las Vegas casinos at least, it came close to dying out, eclipsed by other, more fashionable games like blackjack and roulette. No one, it seemed, played poker anymore. No one bright or fashionable, that is. But suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold...
...salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her Oscar-winning work. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Centauri whiskey to the natives. There, he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer, and the pair are soon discovering the culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers a career performance, donning the hats of weary voyager...
...night with a fast paced jig to warm up the crowd. Playing up Ireland’s greatest export—whiskey—the next jig was purely inspired by this “water of life.” The band claimed to be singing about whiskey because of their Lenten pact of abstinence but that was quickly dispelled by fiddler Ciarn Tourishís cry of “Yeah right...
...former master distiller of Jim Beam bourbon; after a long illness; in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of Jim Beam, who ran the family company from 1892 until 1944, Noe worked for almost 50 years at the distillery and in 1988 created Booker's Bourbon, an undiluted, unfiltered small-batch whiskey that helped establish a new market for bourbon, which had been left behind by the growing popularity of vodka...