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Cheers.
Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White Russian, Hunter S. Thompson’s Singapore Sling, Daisy Buchanan’s Mint Julep, and more in our new Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature.
How Baz Luhrmann began working on Gatsby:
He first got the idea years ago, he added, after finishing ‘Moulin Rouge.’ As was his custom, he wanted to decompress by taking a trip, so he booked himself a passage on a trans-Siberian Express. …
“It was a tin box,” Mr. Luhrmann admitted. “But I took along two bottles of Australian red wine and an iPod with two recorded books. One of them was ‘The Great Gatsby.’ The first night, I opened the red wine, kicked up the air-conditioning and got in bed and started listening. The next day I couldn’t wait for nighttime, so I could hear the rest of it.
“You could actually recommend this as therapy to someone who was really in trouble: Get in a tin box, travel through Siberia, listen to ‘The Great Gatsby’ and drink red wine till you’re drunk.”
This sounds like my ideal vacation.
(via NYT)
