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20th Anniversary of ‘Cocktail’: Jello Biafra’s Kind of Movie?

Posted by Tim Carman on Oct. 21, 2009 at 10:51 am

When Cocktail first hit theaters in 1988, I have to admit I had no interest in seeing it. Why would I want to watch a Tom Cruise vehicle in which bartending was made to look like dorked-out synchronized swimming with 750 ml bottles? I would have preferred being clocked by a broken whiskey bottle than watch Cruise twirl [...]

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So You Want to be a Cocktail Nerd? Pt. I

Posted by Derek Brown on Aug. 10, 2009 at 1:34 pm

To get the cocktail-speak down you have to realize that Prohibition was not the cause of cocktails, which is a common misconception, but the demise of them. The Golden Age of Cocktails was prior to prohibition during the late 19th century, approximately between 1860 and 1917.

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