![]() ![]() ![]() However, like all great men, when the famous turn up on the page, its not that he is parading them to extract our wonder or envy, but simply because they are part of his fascinating story: André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Ortega y Gasset, and "another blind man I don't particularly like," Jorge-Luis Borges. One of the surprises here is the great number of famous people that turned up in Buñuel's life. Then pour straight gin over the ice, shake it again, and serve. ![]() Shake it, then pour it out, keeping only the ice, which retains a faint taste of both. Don't take anything out until your friends arrive then pour a few drops of Noilly Prat and half a demitasse spoon of Angostura bitters over the ice. Use a thermometer to make sure the ice is about twenty degrees below zero (centigrade). The day before your guests arrive, put all the ingredients - glasses, gin, and shaker - in the refrigerator. He adores Martinis, and give us the perfect recipe, "the fruit of long experimentation:" He loves his day-time waking and night-time sleeping dreams. He loathes psychology and psychoanalysis - especially those that try to analyse his movies. He habitually does the unexpected - in life, as well as in his movies. It is charming, wry, cranky artlessly artful. ![]()
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