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...Bronfman. In 1919 Sam took over a hotel business upon the death of Yechiel Bronfman, who had brought the family to Canada 20-odd years earlier from Czarist Russia. Sam quickly took advantage of Prohibition in the neighboring U.S. He sold liquor to U.S. bootleggers and stockpiled much more whiskey; then, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933, he could slake American thirsts legally...
...Seagram, Edgar Sr. accommodated changing consumer tastes in part by lightening blends of a leading whiskey brand, introducing bottled cocktails and importing wines and liqueurs. He also diversified into office buildings, shopping malls and other businesses. In 1981 Seagram bid for control of Conoco, a giant oil and gas producer. It lost to Du Pont Co. but came out owning 24.3% of Du Pont stock, today worth around $9 billion. Seagram's management of that investment just might indicate what role it could play in Time Warner. The company has made no effort to take over Du Pont...
...although they have been craftily interwoven by those folks at Island Records. First, and beyond criticism, are four great songs roughly from the period when the movie is set: "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix, "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion" by the Kinks, "Is This Love" by Bob Marley, and "Whiskey In A Jar" by Thin Lizzy. These songs are just fantastic, though you probably don't need this disc to listen to them, and it doesn't particularly add to their brilliance to hear them together. They were great in the movie itself: a riot in Belfast set to "Voodoo...
...small fee: red wine, white wine (cheapo California vintages), domestic beer, imported beer, vodka, gin, rum, Bailey's, Kahlua, Tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cognac, brandy...
...content on becoming a mainstream folk artist, Waits has spent time perfecting his gravelly whiskey-and-cigarette-soaked voice, his haunting style, and his eclectic musical arrangements, and is now free to do pretty much what he chooses. This freedom has given Waits the space to make some interesting decisions. (His last release, Bone Machine, was the strangest album he's put out in years.) And The Black Rider, Waits' new recording of his contributions to a Robert Wilson production, serves up more weirdness...