Beer Frame
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 1:54AM 
Master Boozer Series
Tonight focusing on Dean Martin
I thought since this is my late night column called “Beer Frame,” I would start a series called the “Master Boozer Series,” that will run from time to time. The focus will always be on someone who was a Master Boozer.
Tonight’s subject is Dean Martin and I always loved Dino! I’ve read several books on him and he was a guy who truly did not give a flying fuck.
He loved to drink, but what most people don’t know is that when he did his act, he was almost always sober. That was apple juice in his glass, he’d wait till after the show to get loaded. It shows what a great actor he was, because he convinced everybody he was loaded to the gills every performance.
Dean Martin didn’t give a fuck about anything and he proved that when he split up the successful duo of Martin and Lewis. They had contracts for movies and TV shows worth millions, but Dino had had it, and no one could talk him out of it. After their last show, Jerry Lewis had a few drinks and called Dean Martin at his suite in the same hotel. He spilled his guts telling him he idolized him and finally he told Dean that he loved him.
Dean Martin waited a beat and then said, “Kid, all you’ve ever been to me is a fucking dollar sign" and then hung up on him.
So tonight, cheers to the Master Boozer, Dean Martin!
I’ll see you all later, around noon.
Cheers,
Marty
Reader Comments (4)
Think i will mozy on over to the fridge and get another beer! Yeah!......Dino was cool!
Cheers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVCKma9_h00
I love Dean Martin! He was one of the coolest! I hope that W.C. Fields is somewhere on that Master Boozer list of yours I think he was the king of booze!
if he was drinking apple juice, he was probably loaded to the gills with poop!