Because someone cares.

Their names are legion?

Oh cool, it's also an adjective.

If Dudley Moore isn't #1, I'll be quite surprised.

/hasn't RTFA

I'd hit it.

sober_canadian: Their names are legion?

legion

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin legion-, legio, from legere to gather -- more at LEGEND

1 : the principal unit of the Roman army comprising 3000 to 6000 foot soldiers with cavalry
2 : a large military force; especially : ARMY 1a
3 : a very large number : MULTITUDE
4 : a national association of ex-servicemen

from TFA

Any list of Bankhead quotes are lists of brilliantly wicked mots, such as her explanation that " my father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."

This thread is useless without drunken partygirl pics. IE; The Lohan, The Hilton, and the Spears. No Nichole Richie though, please. She grosses me out.

Brian Dennehy.

Best. Award. Speech. Ever.

"God I wish I was sober" *exit

" my father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."

Why are all the best women insane or dead? Or both?

EMPulse_of_KC: If Dudley Moore isn't #1, I'll be quite surprised.

Read it, Dudley Moore was a amateur compared to these people.

Oliver Reed.

sober_canadian: Their names are legion?

I think the direct reference is biblical -- when Jesus cast out the demons from the wildman in the caves, I think the demons said (collectively) that their name was "legion."

/If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me.

Gulper Eel

Oliver Reed.

Beat me to it you swine.

Goldsfool

You will appreciate this.

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html


I don't know how to link, sorry.

Errol Flynn

lucasorvis
This thread is useless without drunken partygirl pics. IE; The Lohan, The Hilton, and the Spears. No Nichole Richie though, please. She grosses me out.





So this doesn't gross you out?

No Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole, or Oliver Reed.
This list sucks

Ted Stryker unavailable for comment.

This makes me want to watch The Thin Man tonight.

And drink highballs.

/Mmm, mmm
//Myrna Loy

Andre the Giant wins hands down.


http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html


First, consider the number 7,000. It's an important number, and a rather scary one considering its context, which is this-it has been estimated that Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day. The figure doesn't include food. Just booze.

7,000 calories.

Every day.

Nakito: Yes, and it was meant to be a jab at the Romans for that little issue of occupation at the time.

No Bogart? No Humphrey "The Problem With the World is that Everyone's two drinks behind" Bogart?
I call bullshiat on this list, although Powell's a good choice.

"Is your husband working on a case?"
"Yes, a case of scotch. Want to help him?"

/The Thin Man

Good list, though I'd add John Barrymore.

Richard Harris
Peter O'Toole

I mean come on. They would drink everyone else under the table.

She could have outdrunken all of them.

What a crappy article. "Frank Sinatra, who made it to a respectable 82, closed almost every bar in Vegas, swilling his favorite bourbon, Jack Daniel's." Every good drunk knows that JD isn't a bourbon but rather a Tennessee whiskey.

I just Wiki'd Tallulah Bankhead:

Recently declassified papers thrust Tallulah in the limelight of public scandal posthumously. She had been investigated by MI5 amid rumours she was corrupting pupils at Eton. The documents alleged that she seduced up to half a dozen public schoolboys into taking part in "indecent and unnatural" acts. This rumor had sent shockwaves through the 1920s British establishment.

She was hot, bisexual, engaged in indecent and unnatural acts with anyone and everyone,including schoolboys, drank, snorted, and made highly inappropriate comments.

Why have I never met someone like this?

Indeed NoblePatrick... and the only bourbon anyone need concern themselves with is Maker's Mark.

From TFA:
Even such minor-league stars as Fred MacMurray managed to find a place in drinking history. The "Father Knows Best" star was a member of a group of rowdy Hollywood drinkers led by John Wayne and including Lana Turner, a group dubbed "The Team."

Don't they have Fred confused with Robert Young? Fred was in "My Three Sons..."

/taps wing-tips in time with music...

TFA "Who took the cork out of my lunch?"

Sound's like my high school band teacher.

Natalie Wood didn't die from alcohol. She had Walken poisoning.

For those who are commenting without having read the article, the subject isn't heavy-drinking actors. The subject is actors who "created award-worthy personas as drunks." In honor of the Oscars, of course.

So yeah, Dudley Moore could be on the list. Judy Garland, I don't know, unless she played the role of a drunk that I'm not recalling.

haemaker

Yeah, as soon as I saw W.C. Fields and Dean Martin in the top two spots, I thought the same thing.

/your honor, I move to have my previous statement retracted

I've read Charlie Sheen could put down a half a gallon of vodka a day, and Dana Plato from Different Strokes, one whole gallon a day.

ChubbyTiger: Good list, though I'd add John Barrymore.

Came in to say the same.

On Fields: "During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew," he tells them in mock horror. "Compelled to live on food and water for several days."

Farking genius.

I thought that this article was exceptionally written. Max Sparber deserves a better gig than writting about drinking in Minnesota.

Bashes beer approvingly

What about Larry Hagman? He played JR, who was always drinking and in real life, he's on his second liver.

If I remember my Hollywood memorials right, I believe Dudley Moore was a teetotaler who only played a drunken aristocrat.Of course his persona on screen would make him eligible, but everyone on the list seems to have been a fmaous drunk on and off stage/screen.

On another note...Tallulah Bankhead, I think I love you. ME-OW!

-I like the cut of this Tallulah broad's jib. She's got spunk...

/all over her face no doubt

Damn, I would have liked to have met Ms. Tallulah Bankhead.

Chico Marx!!

It's been said before, but these guys are amateurs next to Andre the giant. The link was posted above (once more with poppy goodness) but here's another snippet:

" A very green rookie wrestler named Hulk Hogan toured Japan several times with Andre and witnessed the Giant's alcohol consumption first hand. According to Hogan, Andre drank, at a minimum, a case of tall boys during each bus ride. When he finished a can Andre would belch, crush the can in his dinner-platter-sized hand, and bounce the empty off the back of Hogan's head. Hogan learned to count each thunk, so he could anticipate when Andre was running low. Whenever the bus stopped, it was Hogan's job to scamper off to the nearest store, buy as many cases of beer as he could carry, and make it back before the bus departed, a sight that never failed to make Andre roar his bassoon-like laugh.

On one tour, Andre's Japanese sponsors rewarded him with a case of expensive plum wine. Andre settled down in the back of the bus and started drinking. Four hours later, the bus arrived at the next venue, and Andre was polishing off the last bottle of wine.

Sixteen bottles of wine in four hours is a considerable feat, but it gets better. Andre proceeded straight to the ring and wrestled three matches, including a twenty-man battle royal. The 16 bottles of plum wine had no discernible effect on Andre's in-ring ability. By the end of the evening, Andre had sweated off the wine and found himself growing cranky. He dispatched Hogan for a few cases of beer. Hogan hurried to do as Andre asked, knowing from painful experience that a drunken Giant was a happy Giant, and a happy Giant was less likely to fracture some vital part of an opponent's anatomy in a fit of grumpiness."

/I know, not a bona fide hollywood star, but he was in movies.
//Or showbusiness.
///Or whatever you call wrestling.

This thread needs more William Holden.

mikaloyd "First, consider the number 7,000. It's an important number, and a rather scary one considering its context, which is this-it has been estimated that Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day. The figure doesn't include food. Just booze."

Yes, but also consider he probably burned 100 calories standing up. He did not have a normal diet for a reason.

jebejosiah: Yes, but also consider he probably burned 100 calories standing up. He did not have a normal diet for a reason.

Also, he had Russian blood. That's really all the explanation you need.

Those buggers chug booze like water.

Tallulah Bankhead quotes from Wikiquote:

* I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
* They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple)
* I'm as pure as the driven slush.
* It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
* The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
* My father warned me about men and booze... but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
* I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
* Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
* If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
* Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
* Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
* Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
* "Codeine...bourbon..." (Tallulah Bankhead's last words)
* Well, I don't know, darling -- he's never sucked my cock. (When asked for her opinion on whether a male celebrity of the time was a homosexual.)