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If you could share a few bottles, jars or whatever takes your fancy of the devil's brew with someone famous either alive or deceased who would it be and why?


No rules, pick as many people as you like, as long as you give reasons for choosing them.



I'm kicking off with Oliver Reed.


Louisa.

I think I found Oliver Reed both a fine actor but also someone who through he medium of alcohol found interesting and fun ways of expressing himself. Some great interviews of him online where he acted the part of the drunken guest and was in fact playing up to the camera whilst making valid and interesting points. Very few people could ever get the better of him as they didn't know when the drunken clown started and the intelligent orator stopped.


Louisa.

Way back in the 70's I worked in Hertfordshire and chanced upon a couple of guys who built swimming pools for high end punters. They had not long returned from a job in the Channel Islands (can't remember which one) during which they became drinking buddies of Oliver Reed, who was making a film there. These guys could drink big time and were able to match Reed in the consumption stakes. They couldn't speak highly enough of him. They said he was humourous, generous, very polite to all and sundry and very popular with the locals. I always thought of him in a different light thereafter.
Most "drinking drunk Legends" are pains in the butt .... We've sadly had alcoholics in the family, they start at the pub too much, lie and thieve, can end up homeless, alienate all their friends and family because they are fed up with trouble, calling ambulances when they are unconscious in their own poop, and end up dying in hospital of liver failure. Happy days !!!

Oliver Reed was my school friend's godfather. At her tenth birthday party we were all sitting round eating jelly and ice cream and he burst in, drunk as a lord and entertained us fantastically for the next two hours... Forty years later and I can still see him laughing and larking about....


triumph Wrote:

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> Way back in the 70's I worked in Hertfordshire and

> chanced upon a couple of guys who built swimming

> pools for high end punters. They had not long

> returned from a job in the Channel Islands (can't

> remember which one) during which they became

> drinking buddies of Oliver Reed, who was making a

> film there. These guys could drink big time and

> were able to match Reed in the consumption stakes.

> They couldn't speak highly enough of him. They

> said he was humourous, generous, very polite to

> all and sundry and very popular with the locals. I

> always thought of him in a different light

> thereafter.

Both fascinating insights into Reed. Always been a fan of his acting, but some of those notorious interviews in the 80's and then his appearance on 'The Word' sometime in the early 90's cemented in my mind, his down to earth and intelligent humour. Yes he had his problems with alcoholism, but I think many underestimated him based on that. He was more than that.


Louisa.



LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> Oliver Reed was my school friend's godfather. At

> her tenth birthday party we were all sitting round

> eating jelly and ice cream and he burst in, drunk

> as a lord and entertained us fantastically for the

> next two hours... Forty years later and I can

> still see him laughing and larking about....

>

> triumph Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Way back in the 70's I worked in Hertfordshire

> and

> > chanced upon a couple of guys who built

> swimming

> > pools for high end punters. They had not long

> > returned from a job in the Channel Islands

> (can't

> > remember which one) during which they became

> > drinking buddies of Oliver Reed, who was making

> a

> > film there. These guys could drink big time and

> > were able to match Reed in the consumption

> stakes.

> > They couldn't speak highly enough of him. They

> > said he was humourous, generous, very polite to

> > all and sundry and very popular with the locals.

> I

> > always thought of him in a different light

> > thereafter.

He was a Musketeer - why is this how I remember him :)


Louisa Wrote:

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> Both fascinating insights into Reed. Always been a

> fan of his acting, but some of those notorious

> interviews in the 80's and then his appearance on

> 'The Word' sometime in the early 90's cemented in

> my mind, his down to earth and intelligent humour.

> Yes he had his problems with alcoholism, but I

> think many underestimated him based on that. He

> was more than that.

>

> Louisa.

>

>

> LadyNorwood Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Oliver Reed was my school friend's godfather.

> At

> > her tenth birthday party we were all sitting

> round

> > eating jelly and ice cream and he burst in,

> drunk

> > as a lord and entertained us fantastically for

> the

> > next two hours... Forty years later and I can

> > still see him laughing and larking about....

> >

> > triumph Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Way back in the 70's I worked in

> Hertfordshire

> > and

> > > chanced upon a couple of guys who built

> > swimming

> > > pools for high end punters. They had not long

> > > returned from a job in the Channel Islands

> > (can't

> > > remember which one) during which they became

> > > drinking buddies of Oliver Reed, who was

> making

> > a

> > > film there. These guys could drink big time

> and

> > > were able to match Reed in the consumption

> > stakes.

> > > They couldn't speak highly enough of him.

> They

> > > said he was humourous, generous, very polite

> to

> > > all and sundry and very popular with the

> locals.

> > I

> > > always thought of him in a different light

> > > thereafter.

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