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...Bronfman, the president and chief executive officer of Seagram Co., was deep in negotiations with Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial to take control of MCA, which owns record labels, theme parks, TV shows, a pleasant parcel of Southern California real estate-and Universal Studios. Seagram, the Canadian purveyor of whiskey, wine and Tropicana juices, was reportedly offering about $5.6 billion for 80% of the entertainment conglomerate...
...adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker...
...first incidents of immigrant racialtension in the U.S. was cleared up by GeorgeWashington at Valley Forge, in 1778. Washingtonannounced that he would issue extra Saint Paddy'sDay whiskey rations to all the soldiers, not justthe newly hyphenated Irish-American...
...bars closer to home. One of those he favored was 5 Emerald Hill, an understated establishment favored by the artistic community. There, surrounded by walls of peeling paint and cooled by electric fans, he would listen to blues and soul in the evening, drinking gin and tonics or whiskey, perhaps staring at the apple slices in the giant jar of vodka or the bottled snake on the liquor shelf. When a wine bar opened next door, Leeson spent more and more time there. "It's like an old boys' club, where the guys smoke cigars in leather arm chairs," said...
...waitress that your girlfriend observes special dietary restrictions: the olives that accompany her martini must be steeped in oil. This way, when she furtively tries to insert them into her nostrils, their well-greased skins will slip right back out. She will soon surrender, and will likely order whiskey sours from then...