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# Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

**Brand:** mark baileyedward hemingway
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## Customer Reviews

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    Bogart Could Relate
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2014*

This is one of those specialized salutes to the drinking faction of the film industry. I spied it at B&N a couple of days before its actual release and did not give it the usual once over. I probably should have held back until I knew I really wanted to read it, but it was one of those days.Quite literally, the title is very much the story. Actors apparently like to drink, among other things. The authors appear to be interested in drink and Hollywood. It's a marriage of common interests you might say. This book is a series of stories relating to inebriated celebrities and their behavior from the silent era to current times. I wish I could tell you this is inconsequential trash. Heck, it is. However, it is a fun short read with some funny stories and drink recipes such as John Barrymore's Pimm's Cup. If you move away from this and the deliberate laughs, you'll also realize that this is also about sad endings in some instances.Despite the obvious negatives, this book should be viewed as an interesting diversion. I enjoyed it, but I am also not certain I would have bought it had I flipped through it at B&N. Due purely to the fact that I had never heard of some of these stories, I am giving this one 4* for its flip attitude and sauced up stories

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    Everybody in the book has a simply wonderful time. You will too. I guarantee it!
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2015*

I saw Casablanca when it was first released in 1942. Watch it any time it comes on TV. So when a book titled “Of All the Gin Joints” surfaced on my radar, I had to have it. Quite simply it is (1) an eye-opener and (2) a world-class, laff-out-loud hoot. It chronicles the escapades, orgies and scandals from 1900 to today of Hollywood’s greatest stars and directors as seen through the lens of a gin bottle. Here are the juiciest stories and quotes from (by my count from the Sources) 225 books plus myriad magazine and newspaper articles. A sampling of the quotes (You’ll have to read the book to get the sources): “He would only confess to being drunk one time—it lasted from the Spanish-American war to the New Deal.” One thespian described herself as being “pure as the driven slush.” “I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.” “If they want to see the girl next door, let them go next door.” “My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.” In addition to the people and the films they made, here are histories of 31 legendary watering holes  including The Brown Derby, Romanoff’s, Chasen’s, and San Simeon. Here too are 43 recipes for the basic thirst quenchers to such exotica as Raymond Chandler’s Gimlet, Missionary’s Downfall, Mitchum’s Eye-Opener, Richard Burton’s Boilermaker and Cranes Scorpion Bowl. Everybody in the book has a simply wonderful time. You will too. I guarantee it!Denny Hatchdennyhatch@yahoo.com

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    Through a martini glass lightly.
  

*by I***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2014*

Stories told, twice or thrice, are still worth telling, and Mark Bailey has done an excellent job of gathering together the best of old Hollywood gossip, some borrowed, some blue, and some that even might be true. The illustrations, whether intentionally or not, distort some famous faces: they look as if they had been drawn while looking through the bottom of a martini glass. "Very dry please." Sammy Davis Jr. somehow is transformed into the famous book jacket photo of the young J.D. Salinger. J.D. was half Jewish and Sammy Jewish by adoption, which only goes to prove the miraculous effect of alcohol, if used discreetly. There are also a number of recipes for obscure cocktails of the past for those who would rather mix than read. All in all, a useful adjunct to anyone's bar or library.

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