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The funniest movie of all time is Some Like it Hot, lets drink Manhattans out of a rubber bag to celebrate it!
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Billy Wilder's 1951 film Some Like it Hot is so incredible it's hard to fathom. It regularly sits at the top of AFI's 100 best comedy's of all time, and is usually in the top 10 of AFI's best films of all time. It's a tale of a couple of down on their luck Jazz musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon, who accidentally witness a brutal gang land slaying and wind up hiding out in Florida, with an all girls jazz band, in drag. Marylin Monroe plays Sugar Kane, the bands vocalist and ukulele player, and resident Good Times Gal. We meet her as she pulls a flask from her garter. Two actors who came to the fore in the Pre-Code 1930's put in outstanding turns in this film, Joe E. Brown as a horn-dog playboy and George Raft as Spats Columbo, the films arch-gangster. Hilarity and hijinks ensue as the boys, er, girls, make their way through love and suspense in sunny Florida.
On their way south by sleeper car, the band enjoys some prohibition manhattans, mixed up in a hot water bottle. Here I do my best to recreate that drink, and the results are surprisingly wonderful.
Sleeper Car Manhattan
1.5 oz. -or- 45 ml. Mellow Corn
1.5 oz. -or- 45 ml. Punt e Mes
2 dashes Orange Bitters
1 Dash angostura Bitters
Mix in a rubber bag
Garnish with maraschino cherries
Orange twist optional
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Music by Glen Crytzer: bit.ly/2KjujSg
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Dennis Groome
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William Madrid
Trip Brennan
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Sara Caudill
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Billy Wilder's 1951 film Some Like it Hot is so incredible it's hard to fathom. It regularly sits at the top of AFI's 100 best comedy's of all time, and is usually in the top 10 of AFI's best films of all time. It's a tale of a couple of down on their luck Jazz musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon, who accidentally witness a brutal gang land slaying and wind up hiding out in Florida, with an all girls jazz band, in drag. Marylin Monroe plays Sugar Kane, the bands vocalist and ukulele player, and resident Good Times Gal. We meet her as she pulls a flask from her garter. Two actors who came to the fore in the Pre-Code 1930's put in outstanding turns in this film, Joe E. Brown as a horn-dog playboy and George Raft as Spats Columbo, the films arch-gangster. Hilarity and hijinks ensue as the boys, er, girls, make their way through love and suspense in sunny Florida.
On their way south by sleeper car, the band enjoys some prohibition manhattans, mixed up in a hot water bottle. Here I do my best to recreate that drink, and the results are surprisingly wonderful.
Sleeper Car Manhattan
1.5 oz. -or- 45 ml. Mellow Corn
1.5 oz. -or- 45 ml. Punt e Mes
2 dashes Orange Bitters
1 Dash angostura Bitters
Mix in a rubber bag
Garnish with maraschino cherries
Orange twist optional
Most of the tools and gear I use on the show can be found on my gear page at: bit.ly/H2DGear BUT, here's a couple of links that everyone is almost always asking me about:
Koriko Weighted Shaker Tins: amzn.to/2MvyOWs
Koriko Hawthorne Strainer: amzn.to/2IAZrHr
Leopold Jigger: amzn.to/2KsBu6B
Imbibe! By David Wondrich: amzn.to/2Kv1dLN
Liquid Intelligence by Dave Arnold: amzn.to/2N885jP
Slowly but surely, I'm starting a mailing list so that I'm not fully dependent on YT's algorithmized notifications system. If you'll sign up, I promise not to abuse your generosity, or sell your info to anyone. It's over on the blog right here:
bit.ly/H2DBlog
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twitter: bit.ly/H2DTwit
instagram: bit.ly/H2dIG
Blog: bit.ly/H2DBlog
Patreon: bit.ly/H2DPatreon
Gear: amzn.to/2LeQCbW
***********************************
Music by Glen Crytzer: bit.ly/2KjujSg
***********************************
Incredibly Awesome Patrons who make this show possible!
Shelby Benton
Rob L
Dennis Groome
Whiskey Tribe
Aditya Choksi
Thomas D Choate
Ryan Wolfe
Sean F.
Uri Sacharow
James Richards
Rachel Keys
William Madrid
Trip Brennan
Rosemary H. Andrus
Benjamin Hess
Sara Caudill
Erik Spräng
Tetas Duras
Anthony Elias
Rob Hayward
Per Keckman Persson