The Story Behind Ryan Gosling’s Perfect ‘Crazy Stupid Love’ Cocktail

He studied the craft with the help of Eric Alperin, co-owner of The Varnish and new cocktail book author. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The Story Behind Ryan Gosling's Perfect Old Fashioned in 'Crazy Stupid Love'   Hollywood usually gets cocktails wrong. Suave detective Nick Charles in 1934's The Thin Man—probably the drinking-est movie of all time—is first seen instructing bartenders to shake a Martini, a shudder-inducing moment for Martini purists, who think the drink should be stirred. James Bond is no better in his many cinematic requests of "shaken-not-stirred" vodka Martinis. And let's not even talk about all the foolishness Tom Cruise gets up to in Cocktail. But at least one film got the Old Fashioned amazingly right. It was, strangely, the madcap 2011 romantic comedy Crazy Stupid Love, in which Ryan Gosling plays a slick womanizer and Emma Stone his latest focus. Robert Simonson got the inside story from the man who taught Gosling how to get it right, Eric Alperin. Read More           No DNC Speaker Reflected America's Mood More Than Kristin Urquiza   We had no idea what we all were going to be watching as the Democratic National Convention opened in virtual space on Monday night, except we knew we weren't going to be seeing the August moon gleaming off the Milwaukee River. By the end of the evening, Charles P. Pierce was thinking, damn, this wasn't a Convention Convention, but whatever it was, it worked. And the moment it started to work was when a 39-year-old woman named Kristin Urquiza appeared on the screen to talk about her father's having been one of the fatalities of the pandemic. (Urquiza already became something of a star when she blistered Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in her father's obituary.) Talking straight to camera, Urquiza brought the hammer. Read More           What Do the New Tune Squad Jerseys Tell Us About Space Jam: A New Legacy?   As Bubble NBA spins madly on, virtual fans and all, the basketball world got an out-of-nowhere surprise late Monday night. Courtesy of The LeBron James Family Foundation, we got a sneak peek of the new digs Bronny and the Looney Tunes will wear in the sequel to 1996's Space Jam, titled Space Jam: A New Legacy. Until this point, we knew just about nothing about the film, but Esquire's Brady Langmann took a way-too-close look at the new Tune Squad jerseys for any plot intel. In short: pay attention to the shorts, people. Read More           Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising' Is on Track to Become This Election's 'Fight Song'   On Monday, during the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden shared a new campaign video set to Bruce Springsteen's 2002 anthem "The Rising." Rather than parade a number of basic cable celebrities to sing the song, Biden's campaign uses footage from the last four years of Trump's presidency, highlighting the divide and chaos the administration has wrought. It's a simple and powerful video, thanks in large part to a songwriter who has been writing about the struggle of the working man for half a century. But that wasn't the only time we heard "The Rising" last night. Culture Editor Matt Miller explains why in the DNC's hands, a perfectly good song can be reduced to a national cringe. Read More           20 Extremely Cool Tote Bags to Replace That Sad One You Got for Free   This summer, make like your local Upper West Side empty nester and cop a tote bag so you'll have plenty of room to store all the Italian sausage you ended up buying (instead of the bok choy you swore you would) after locking eyes with the cute attendant at the cured meats stall you hoped to impress with your financial largesse and studied appreciation of finely cut mortadella. Tote bags, man. They'll get you every time. Here are 20 upgrades to consider. Read More           The Calm and Urgent Power of Michelle Obama's DNC Pragmatism   There was a lot of focus on Michelle Obama's inversion of Trump's now infamous line—"It is what it is."—while discussing the horrific American death toll in a pandemic he has betrayed his duty to contain, and rightfully so. It was a stunning exhibition of his malignant narcissism. But the larger message from Obama's DNC opening night address might be more potent still. We hired the president to do a job. He has shown, over and over again and in a thousand grotesque ways, that he is incapable of doing it. He should be fired, and only we can fire him. This calm and simple pragmatism was there elsewhere in Obama's speech when she walked the listener through what may be required on Election Day: brown-bag dinners, and maybe even breakfast, because you might have to wait in line a while to get rid of this guy. He's made sure of it. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019