Thursday, September 29, 2011

Best Bars for Cocktails, Cigars, Beer, Love Seats: N.Y. Roundup



(Bloomberg) The greatest movie scene featuring a New York bar opens with the debonair Nick Charles, played by William Powell, demonstrating the different rhythms required to shake the perfect cocktail.
The movie is “The Thin Man,” the scene a New York speakeasy in the 1920s.
When his wife Nora, the delectable Myrna Loy, enters led by their dog, Asta, she says, “He’s dragged me into every gin mill on the block.” Then she orders five martinis to catch up with her husband. Continued



Photo of William Powell and Myrna Loy via Doctor Macro

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