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April 28, 2005

More Drunks in Film

A seemingly sodden Connery in 'The Avengers'

More drunks!-- Well not exactly, but a wonderful bit of conjecture from the fine folks at Hell On Earth (last updated 2003-10-20 --the prominence of their t.A.T.u story gives them away). Based on especially selected screengrabs, the authors surmise that the principal cast of that grand TV remake The Avengers were royally tanked during that film's production, which, of course, would account for that epic's spectacular failure (although I would suspect the ego engorging effects of devil cocaine, just like in the '80s). See Ralph and Uma with half lidded eyes and knotted brows straight out of the Foster Brooks School of Acting, and Connery's looking rightly disheveled. From the same site, you can also find evidence of more rampant dipsomania in the Bruckheimer classic Con Air, with cool macho drunk Americans like Cusack, Rhames, Cage, and Malkovich (?), rather than the effete (Long Island Iced?) tea-sipping Britishers from The Avengers.

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