💬 Opinion 15h ago · Paul Kengor

In Vino Veritas — and Civilization

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“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink.”
So said Dean Martin, a man known for drinking. (The quote is also attributed to Dean’s paisano, Frank Sinatra.)
Dino loved his vino. He not only knew how to drink but how to act like a drunk. He played an outstanding drunk sheriff in the 1959 film Rio Bravo, co-starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan. Lam-w.comter, in December 1975, it was unclear whether Dean was acting during his epic performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (seated between C

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