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“Julia” in her memoir
Pentimento.
..........
1894–1961. Humorist and cartoonist. Thurber’s first book,
Is Sex Necessary?,
established him as a major comic talent. His short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” created his most enduring character, while his minimalist sketches in
The New Yorker
set the standard for sophisticated cartoons.
BRANDY ALEXANDER
A girl’s drink? A sissy drink? Thurber liked his brandy—as did Baldwin, Cozzens, Hellman, Lewis, Steinbeck, and Williams. Chances are, Thurber would have thrown his drink in your face just for thinking “sissy.”
1 oz. brandy
1 oz. dark crème de cacao
1½ oz. heavy cream
Freshly grated nutmeg
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg over top.
From “Scott in Thorns,” 1962
The Drunk.
He is the stranger who annoys your party as you’re leaving “21.” He has no name. He appears from nowhere and reels off in the direction of nothing. He talks to himself.
The Drunken Bum.
Same as The Drunk, except that he asks for money, or falls down, or both. He curses.
The Souse.
He drinks the way other men play cards or bet on horses. He always stands at the bar, and will not sit in a booth. He has the lowdown on everything, and loves to talk about his wife, and sports. The more he drinks the shrewder he becomes, and he is a hard man to roll, to cheat at cards, or to lure into the badger game. He could find his way home blindfolded on the darkest night of the year. He loves to sing in a male quartet.
Tennessee Williams
“Life is as much a merry tavern as a sad hotel.”
If you received a phone call, “Baby, I don’t know where I am. I’m at the Sheraton,” then you would know Tennessee was in his cups again. In strange towns, after a night of carousing, he would forget his hotel name and insist he was at the Sheraton. His brain soaked with gin, he became certain every hotel outside of New Orleans or New York was named Sheraton. Sometimes he would ask what city he was in. As when he ended up in Indianapolis, having left for Minneapolis. He died at New York’s Hotel Elysee, drunk. He tried to open a medicine bottle with his teeth and choked on the cap.
..........
1911–1983. Playwright and short-story writer. Williams achieved critical success with
The Glass Menagerie,
winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award. Of his more than fifty plays, his best-known work remains
A Streetcar Named Desire.
The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and introduced Marlon Brando to the world.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
won him another Pulitzer.
RAMOS FIZZ
A Williams favorite, the Ramos Fizz hails from New Orleans, the city he so loved. Invented in the early 1900s by the Ramos Brothers, the drink is unusually difficult to make. It is not just the obscure orange flower water: you must shake the cocktail very hard for a full three minutes. At the famous Ramos bar, a platoon of muscled bartenders would shake and pass all the way down the line. For Williams, it must have been as much fun to watch it made as it was to drink it.
2 oz. gin
1 oz. heavy cream
½ oz. lemon juice
½ oz. lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
5 drops orange flower water
1 egg white
Splash of club soda
Pour all ingredients (except club soda) into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake hard for three full minutes. Strain into a chilled highball glass (no ice). Add splash of club soda.
From
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
1954
BIG DADDY: I sure in hell don’t know what you’re talking about, but it disturbs me.
BRICK: It’s just a mechanical thing.
BIG DADDY: What is a mechanical thing?
BRICK: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it. It’s just a mechanical thing, something like a—like a—like a—
BIG DADDY: Like a—
BRICK: Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool light on and—(
He looks up, smiling sadly.
)
—all
Pentimento.
..........
1894–1961. Humorist and cartoonist. Thurber’s first book,
Is Sex Necessary?,
established him as a major comic talent. His short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” created his most enduring character, while his minimalist sketches in
The New Yorker
set the standard for sophisticated cartoons.
BRANDY ALEXANDER
A girl’s drink? A sissy drink? Thurber liked his brandy—as did Baldwin, Cozzens, Hellman, Lewis, Steinbeck, and Williams. Chances are, Thurber would have thrown his drink in your face just for thinking “sissy.”
1 oz. brandy
1 oz. dark crème de cacao
1½ oz. heavy cream
Freshly grated nutmeg
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg over top.
From “Scott in Thorns,” 1962
The Drunk.
He is the stranger who annoys your party as you’re leaving “21.” He has no name. He appears from nowhere and reels off in the direction of nothing. He talks to himself.
The Drunken Bum.
Same as The Drunk, except that he asks for money, or falls down, or both. He curses.
The Souse.
He drinks the way other men play cards or bet on horses. He always stands at the bar, and will not sit in a booth. He has the lowdown on everything, and loves to talk about his wife, and sports. The more he drinks the shrewder he becomes, and he is a hard man to roll, to cheat at cards, or to lure into the badger game. He could find his way home blindfolded on the darkest night of the year. He loves to sing in a male quartet.
Tennessee Williams
“Life is as much a merry tavern as a sad hotel.”
If you received a phone call, “Baby, I don’t know where I am. I’m at the Sheraton,” then you would know Tennessee was in his cups again. In strange towns, after a night of carousing, he would forget his hotel name and insist he was at the Sheraton. His brain soaked with gin, he became certain every hotel outside of New Orleans or New York was named Sheraton. Sometimes he would ask what city he was in. As when he ended up in Indianapolis, having left for Minneapolis. He died at New York’s Hotel Elysee, drunk. He tried to open a medicine bottle with his teeth and choked on the cap.
..........
1911–1983. Playwright and short-story writer. Williams achieved critical success with
The Glass Menagerie,
winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award. Of his more than fifty plays, his best-known work remains
A Streetcar Named Desire.
The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and introduced Marlon Brando to the world.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
won him another Pulitzer.
RAMOS FIZZ
A Williams favorite, the Ramos Fizz hails from New Orleans, the city he so loved. Invented in the early 1900s by the Ramos Brothers, the drink is unusually difficult to make. It is not just the obscure orange flower water: you must shake the cocktail very hard for a full three minutes. At the famous Ramos bar, a platoon of muscled bartenders would shake and pass all the way down the line. For Williams, it must have been as much fun to watch it made as it was to drink it.
2 oz. gin
1 oz. heavy cream
½ oz. lemon juice
½ oz. lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
5 drops orange flower water
1 egg white
Splash of club soda
Pour all ingredients (except club soda) into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake hard for three full minutes. Strain into a chilled highball glass (no ice). Add splash of club soda.
From
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
1954
BIG DADDY: I sure in hell don’t know what you’re talking about, but it disturbs me.
BRICK: It’s just a mechanical thing.
BIG DADDY: What is a mechanical thing?
BRICK: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it. It’s just a mechanical thing, something like a—like a—like a—
BIG DADDY: Like a—
BRICK: Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool light on and—(
He looks up, smiling sadly.
)
—all
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