Cary Grant's Suit by Todd McEwen

Author:Todd McEwen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Through the smoke you can just see the plot shimmer like a mirage in fumes of alcohol. This too is pleasant, though you wonder if in 1941 there really was that much western liquor in Morocco. Of course booze goes where it’s needed. Everybody in Rick’s is engaged in Moorish plastering. Rick has nine or ten drinks. One of them is pretty much a whole bottle of bourbon. He’s upset. Predictably, Victor Laszlo is in second place, as you would expect of the unelected leader of the free world, with six drinks and an iced coffee. (When Victor and Ilsa first come into Rick’s, they sit down and Victor asks for two Cointreaus, the same stunt he pulls on Bette in Now, Voyager! Does he always push Cointreau on women?)

Ilsa matches him pretty closely with five drinks, although she is rarely seen to drink them. She’s so pure. We get it. (She likes that iced coffee of Sydney’s, though – she says she will miss it in America. Is this some kind of snide screenwriters’ impugning of coffee in America, maybe specifically coffee in Los Angeles? I hope so.) Claude Rains has five drinks, but as with his smoking it’s more a matter of style and gesture. Louis likes women, not drink. Before he’s arrested Peter Lorre probably has three or four drinks, Sam has maybe two, and Carl has a small brandy with the elderly German couple.

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