Celebrity Soup: The Ultimate Cocktail Party

 

The cocktail has a long history. It has inspired love affairs, break-ups, new adventures and endless stories—some true, some half true and some not true at all.  The cocktail has played a big part in music and movies, too.  Say, wouldn’t it be fun to get a dream group of cocktail lovers together and have a party?  I think it would go something like this.  

 ”I like to have a martini.  Two at the very most.  After three I’m under the table.   After four, I’m under my host.” 

Dorothy Parker 

“A dry martini, One.  In a deep champagne goblet.  Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet, shake it; very well until it’s ice cold, then, add a large, thin slice of lemon-peel.  Got it?”

Ian Fleming’s James Bond

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that will help is a glass of champagne.”

Bette Davis in Old Acquaintance

“We went to have ourselves a drink or two, but couldn’t find an open bar.  We bought a six-pack at the liquor store and we drank it in her car.  We drank a toast to innocence; we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.”

Dan Fogelberg, “Same Old Lang Syne”

About the mojito, a drink of white rum, mint leaves, a splash of soda, sugar and lemon: Hemmingway called it “nuclear lemonade.” 

Gloria Estefan

Obviously, that cocktail party couldn’t happen in reality, but if you can’t get any A-Listers—alive or dead—to come to your next get-together, why not offer to serve their favorite drinks?  Here’s one from Julia Roberts.

Julia Roberts’ Scorpino

She liked this drink so much that she named her dog after it.

2 oz vodka

2 oz cream

1 oz Cointreau

1 large scoop lemon ice

Blend and serve.

 You may need a taxi to get you home!  

Party on the Road

If you are out at a cool place like Colombo’s Italian Steakhouse and Jazz Club in Eagle Rock, why not have your driver take you in style with a car from ultra-chic Black and White Rent-a-Car in Beverly Hills?

And for incredible sushi in an intriguing, comfortable atmosphere, Sushi & Kushi IMAI is a must!  It’s at the corner of San Vicente and Wilshire in Beverly Hills.

More Party Chatter

W.C. Fields was a golfer.  He belonged to the Lakeside Country Club, near Universal Studios.  Fields usually carried flasks that, he said, contained orange juice.  One day, Fields left his flask for a minute, and his golf partners replaced the contents of vodka with a less intoxicating fluid.  After swallowing a mouthful when he returned, Fields exclaimed, “Somebody put orange juice in my orange juice!”

By Jill Garneski