Great Drunks

Post by **Oggar** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:49 am

Robert Mitchum- I don't think he gets ernough credit. He lived to be pretty old and his drinking even held up production on his last movie.

Also Sam Peckinpaw I dont remeber why know but I know there in the inteview James Coburn did a couple years ago. He was talking about how Sam mixed a drink first thing in ther morniingf and by the end of the day it was just vodka and he'd mmake people watch the sunsrt with him....

jerryg · Post by **jerryg** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 6:13 am

My fater in law. He keeps a bottle in his bathroom and has a couple shot before he does anything. He's been doing this for...30, 40 years?

LuckyStrikes · Post by **LuckyStrikes** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:23 pm

I'm not a fan, but lately Billy Joel has been putting his hat into the ring. I think two or three trees have hit vehicles he was operating. He got out of alcohol rehab and the same night was spotted downing shots at a bar. And he looks like he is carrying a couple of six packs underneath his eyes.

stepheybaby · Post by **stepheybaby** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:25 pm

Oliver Reed. Is it fact or myth that he drank 105 pints in 48 hours?

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:29 pm

stepheybaby wrote:Oliver Reed. Is it fact or myth that he drank 105 pints in 48 hours?

Fact!
Get his biography "Evil Spirits" a thumping good read.

TARTANSPECIAL · Post by **TARTANSPECIAL** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:30 pm

stepheybaby wrote:Oliver Reed. Is it fact or myth that he drank 105 pints in 48 hours?

Having drunk with the great man himself, it is probably true. When i met him he drank 15 pints and about 20 whisky's. Then he went to his film premiere. The world is a sadder place without him

Max Vol · Post by **Max Vol** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:31 pm

The book "The Who: Maximum R&B" has some great shots of Keith Moon and Oliver Reed boozing it up wearing costumes. I'll have to dig out my copy and scan one and post it.

Mitchum was cool. Didn't he get busted for pot back in the 40s or 50s? Talk about a pioneer..

stepheybaby · Post by **stepheybaby** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:33 pm

Raise your glasses to a toast to Oliver. :lol:

TARTANSPECIAL · Post by **TARTANSPECIAL** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:54 pm

stepheybaby wrote:Raise your glasses to a toast to Oliver. Make him proud! :lol:

I'm doing my damn best :P
P.s he showed me his tattoo, you know the one i mean :twisted:

TARTANSPECIAL · Post by **TARTANSPECIAL** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:56 pm

stepheybaby wrote:Oliver Reed. Is it fact or myth that he drank 105 pints in 48 hours?

If you ever make it up here, let me know and i will take to hie favourite pub in Glasgow

stepheybaby · Post by **stepheybaby** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:04 pm

sounds good!

stepheybaby · Post by **stepheybaby** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:08 pm

great drunks! My mate Nick. Heaviest drinker I know also the skinniest!

deadpuppiesandwhores · Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:30 pm

maybe i'm lettin' the beers talk, but they (the beers) tell me i am the greatest drunk, well...... greatest everything. now that i've killed all of the weak buffalo, i am definately the smartest man alive.

Whiskey Rock-a-Roller · Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:45 pm

One of the greatest drunks of this day has got to be Ryan Adams...NO I did not say Bryan Adams! Such a great musician and not afraid to wear his drunken heart on his sleeve. I saw him last year at the Paramount and he sat on stage with a gallon of red wine and a carton of smokes and told some fucking hysterical stories and sang some fucking beautiful songs.

Richard Harris was also an exemplary drunk, God rest his soul... *clink*

Barca · Post by **Barca** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:10 pm

Richard Harris was a great drunk but he quit.

A great drunk never quits. He abdicates any shot at the title for that.

Mitchum was a great drunk. In those days, like now, the actors never associated with the crew. He'd come in late every day until the crew got all the same perks as the stars and even after that he'd buy liquor for all the grips and cleaning people and hang out and drink with them.