The 2001 novel, " In a Strange City ," by Baltimore crime fiction novelist Laura Lippman features dueling Poe Toasters, one killing the other, during a tragically failed " Poe Toasting " at Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds.

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On one occasion, she begged Malibu neighbour Larry Hagman to check Moon into yet another clinic to dry out, ( as he had tried more than once before ) but when doctors recorded Moon's intake at breakfast ( a full bottle of champagne along with Courvoisier along with amphetamines ), they allegedly concluded there was no hope in his rehabilitation.

However, another strand of Engels ’ s personality was one of a " gregarious ", " bighearted ", and " jovial man of outsize appetites ", who was referred to by his son-in-law as " the great beheader of champagne bottles.

Reims, along with Épernay and Ay, functions as one of the centres of champagne production.

It was originally available in miniature champagne bottles and was one of the premier high-end beers in the country for many years.

He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited.

During the intermission, the audience was so subdued that Cimino is said to have asked why no one was drinking the champagne.

VFQPRD: is a regional sparkling wine made in the traditional champagne, charmat or transfer method in one of the following determined regions: Douro, Ribatejo, Minho, Alentejo or Estremadura.

There were some aberrations in Elisabeth's diet that appear to be signs of binge eating, On one occasion in 1878 the Empress astonished her travelling companions when she unexpectedly visited a restaurant incognito, where she drank champagne, ate a broiled chicken, an Italian salad, and finished with a " considerable quantity of cake ".

At 1: 04: 43 ( 1: 01: 50 on European DVDs and 64: 28 of the edited cut ) into the film, Hitchcock is seen drinking a glass of champagne at the champagne table as Grant and Bergman approach to get one.

" According to Vreeland, " The one that seemed to cause the most attention was [...] " Don't You ash your blond child's hair in dead champagne, as they do in France.

" If one rubber baron bought a vast yacht, another would install a tame lion in his villa, and a third would water his horse on champagne.

Pinot Meunier,, also known as Meunier or SchwarzRiesling, is a variety of black wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of champagne ( the other two are the black variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay ).

This property had been developed by Brother Jean Oudart, a Benedictine monk, one of the founding fathers of champagne wine, and later it had belonged to the writer Jacques Cazotte.

In one incident, he promised his players a bonus for winning the 1919 pennant — the " bonus " turned out to be a case of flat champagne.

The director recalled one such incident: " Steve and I had been discussing some point on which we disagreed, so he picked up this bottle of champagne and threw it at me.

He was received by many people, including beautiful " Damita " society, as well as President Rafael López Gutiérrez who broke a bottle of champagne on one of the aircraft's propellers.

If one couple won both the games, the losing couple would be sent home with a case of champagne before the break, otherwise, the losing couple would get to keep the £ 1, 000 for winning their one game ( there was no money awarded for the tie-breaker ).

Moët et Chandon is one of the world's largest champagne producers and a prominent champagne house.

As director of Ruinart, one of the leading champagne houses in Reims, France, he was experienced with the méthode champenoise when he on a 1841 boat trip met his future wife Sophie Kirchner from Vienna, the daughter of a wealthy factory owner.

One night Osgood invites " Daphne " for a champagne supper on his yacht.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

On the night before the wedding, Stifler inadvertently disrupts the walk-in refrigerator's power supply while retrieving a bottle of champagne, essentially turning it into an oven and killing the many flowers put together for the ceremony.

The road to intermittent wipers began earlier, on his wedding night in 1953, when an errant champagne cork shot into Kearn's left eye, which eventually went almost completely blind.

After working all night reading a pile of papers nearly four feet thick and consuming a bottle of champagne and two dozen oysters, Smith opined " There is no answer to this action in libel, and the damages must be enormous.

That night, Ungar took all his close friends out to a strip club and paid for the entire evening which included numerous girls, Cristal champagne and a VIP booth.

On the night of Zoey's graduation, he hikes through the National Arboretum to dig up a bottle of champagne the two had buried three years earlier, intending to give it to her as a graduation gift.

He was constantly reported drinking champagne in night clubs, and spent freely on flashy clothes and partying.

On the night of 26 May he helped drink the last of the ship's champagne.

Tickets for naked sushi night may cost around US $ 75, which may include sushi, sake and champagne.

" 1 ) On a Monday or Friday night, go to a female crossroads ( T-shaped rather than plus-shaped ) and greet Pomba Gira by pouring a little rum, or better yet, champagne or anisette ( anis ); 2 ) place two pieces of cloth ( pano ) on the ground, one red and the other black, and on top of this put five or seven red roses in the shape of a horseshoe ; 3 ) fill a cup of good quality with champagne or anisette ; 4 ) put the name of the desired person in the cup or in the middle of the horseshoe ; 5 ) sing a ponto ( song ) and thank Pomba Gira.

* In the original script for the movie Goodfellas ( working title: " Wiseguys ") the narration of the character Karen Hill was to include, " One night, Billy Daniels sent us champagne.

The ship enters the Mediterranean Sea, and one night, after Lionel returns to his cabin, he is awaited by Cocoanut and a bottle of champagne.

That night, while sipping champagne, Rebecca " accidentally " spills some on Angel and he has to go change his shirt.

The champagne at Troyes, the traditional capital of the champagne country, has more ambrosial taste somehow than it has at a sidewalk cafe on the Rue de la Paix or at Tour D'Argent.

I had champagne at Maxim's, then went into a cafe called the Jour et Nuit to ask the way to Montmartre.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

), sometimes performing a symbolic act such as cutting a ribbon or pushing a button at an opening, christening something with champagne, laying the first stone, and so on.

Altenberg, like many writers and artists, was constantly short of money, but he was adept at making friends, cultivating patrons, and convincing others to pay for his meals, his champagne, even his rent, with which he was frequently late.

During the K-19's official launch, the bottle of champagne fails to break when it strikes the bow ; the sailors nervously glance at each other due to this customary sign of bad luck.

" Emine Saner of The Guardian suggests that with a gin and Dubonnet at noon, red wine with lunch, a port and martini at 6 pm and two glasses of champagne at dinner, " a conservative estimate puts the number of alcohol units she drank at 70 a week ".

Fagon quickly attributed the King's continuing ailments to champagne and ordered that only Burgundy wine must be served at the royal table.

The term " Champagne Music " was derived from an engagement at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, when a dancer referred to his band's sound as " light and bubbly as champagne.

This is reflected in his last major work, at the age of 80, the design, building and decoration of the Foujita chapel in the gardens of the Mumm champagne house in Reims, France, which he completed in 1966, not long before his death.

Gerald, Tess ' inconsiderate secretary ( Dan Tobin ), arrives with a bottle of champagne and reminds Tess of her commitment to launch a ship at 8: 30 am.

In " Where the Buggalo Roam " during his stay at the ranch of Amy Wong's parents, he bathes in their champagne, breaks their television, fertilizes the caviar before Amy's father eats it, draws mustaches on several portraits around the house, tear up their couch, fill their pool with brine shrimp and refers to the ranch as " Rancho Zoidberg ," enraging the Wongs.

The bills on September 19 included two bottles of Cristal champagne charged at £ 400.

They became known for hosting small dinner parties from their giant bed in their palatial townhouse on Quai d ' Orsay, and afterward everyone was invited to enjoy their huge bathtub together, taking advantage of iced bottles of champagne near at hand.