(1) Robert Newton (Actor)
(2) Dorothy Parker (Writer)
(3) Robin Williams (Comedian)
(5) Nicola Sweetness (Web Site Owner)
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(There were TWO jokes in there if you were paying attention...)
Another FIVE???
(1) Yootha Joyce (Actor)
(2) Brendan Behan (Writer)
(3) Hunter S Thompson (Journalist)
(4) Vivian Mac Kerrell (Failed Actor)
(5) ME! (FUCK only knows!!!)
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(1) Stephen King (Writer)
(2) Ben Affleck (Actor)
(3) Bruce Robinson (Film Director/Writer/Actor/God)
(4) Shane McGowan (Singer/Songwriter)
(5) Amy Winehouse (Singer/Writer)
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(1) George Best (footballer)
(2) Alex Higgins (snooker player)
(3) Oliver Reed (actor)
(4) Keith Moon (drummer)
(5) Ozzy Osborne. (singer)
That's gotta be my top five. I'll add some more if they spring to mind.
Another Newton story???
David Niven was actually a Great Friend of Newton... Upon some film or other, Niven recommended Newton for a part... It might have been for MAYER or one of those Hollywood Moguls, but Niven STRESSED that while Newton drank a lot, he was actually a Fine Actor... They agreed to see Newton for the part... BUT...
Niven INSISTS, "You must not mention his drinking at the meeting!!! He's in recovery now and he's very sensitive about it... In fact, never say I even MENTIONED it..."
The meeting takes place... Newton is Newton, he WOWS Louis B Mayer and basically gets offered the part!!!
Then Mayer says, "You should thank Niven for this... By the way, he says you're a drunk..."
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In no particular order:
James Caan
Peter O’Toole
Anthony Hopkins
Joaquin Phoenix
Edgar Allan Poe
Peter O'Toole
William Holden
Christopher Hitchens
Richard Burton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also Dorothy Parker and Billie Holiday to add to Amy Winehouse for women.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Ernest Hemingway
Mrs Butterworth
Randy Atcher
Buddy Guy
Incidentally, I met Toulouse in a drive-thru at a White Castle.
#1 will always be Richard Nixon. Calling Kissinger up, drunk at 3 in the morning, demanding to nuke Vietnam.
Steven Tyler
Jim Morrison
Bon Scott
Amy Winehouse
John Bonham
Richard Nixon
Winston Churchill
US Grant
Mickey Mantle
Charlie Sheen
I can't believe no one has mentioned Dean Martin or Foster Brooks!
Christopher Wren
Edgar Allen Poe
Graham Chapman
Paul Westerberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have always found it highly appropriate that Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's founding Prime Minister, was noted for being overly fond of alcohol, though whiskey, rather than modern Canuck fave beer, was his poison of choice.
1. Samuel Adams
2. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard.
3. Andrew Volstead.
4. John Pemberton
5. Elliot Ness
Im surprise I haven't seen the incredible Charles Bukowski here and Ernest Hemingway only once!
1. Ulysses Grant
2. Jackson Pollock
3. Mickey Mantle
4. Jack Kerouac
5. Mel Gibson
1. Jack Kerouac
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Winston Churchill
4. Charles Bukowski
5. Edgar Allen Poe
There are some very impressive names on this thread, but we all know that every single one of them pales in comparison to the greatest drunk of all time. The absolute pinnacle of alcoholism. The one and only Sunnyvale trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey.
He is the liquor.