• 13 Martinis and a Bowler Hat: How Billy Wilder Made Silver Screen Cocktails Cool

    18 days ago - By Vine Pair

    Arguably the most charming drunk scene in the history of cinema comes halfway through the 1960 classic “The Apartment.” C.C. Baxter, the junior executive played by Jack Lemmon, has just discovered - on Christmas Eve, no less - that the elevator operator he pines for is the mistress of his married rotter of a boss. Heartbroken, he retires to a Manhattan bar and proceeds to get purposefully plastered. But he does so with style and with a bowler on his head. Martinis are his embalming fluid of choice, and he keeps count of them by arranging the olive toothpicks on the bar in the shape of an...
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