17 સપ્ટેમ્બર, 2014

"In the morning, it starts at home with champagne or red wine before 10am, then again champagne."

"Then food, accompanied by two bottles of wine. In the afternoon, champagne, beer and more pastis at around 5pm, to finish off the bottle. Later on, vodka and/or whisky. But I’m never totally drunk, just a little p*****d. All you need is a 10-minute nap and voila, a slurp of rose wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy. Anyway, I’m not going to die. Not now. I still have energy."

Boasts Gerard Depardieu, who is 65, has had a quintuple bypass, and — tellingly — owns a vineyard.

28 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

MadisonMan કહ્યું...

14 bottles of wine is a lot of calories. No wonder he's overweight.

Curious George કહ્યું...

"MadisonMan said...
14 bottles of wine is a lot of calories. No wonder he's overweight."

Overweight? Dude's a mudslide.

MayBee કહ્યું...

He's found a lifestyle he loves and a way to support it.

Good for him.

Brando કહ્યું...

There is something to be said for European hedonism. I don't think I could do that for more than a month though. That would get old fast.

MayBee કહ્યું...

I do have to say, red wine in the morning sounds horrible.

Drago કહ્યું...

If only he were a military historian, a fantastically prodigious writer, governmental leader (for multiple parties), stood up and led his country in its darkest hour and had an American mother he could have been another Churchill.

Since he called out Hollande and his socialist hordes for their insane tax policies we'll take him anyway.

Drago કહ્યું...

Yes, red wine in the morning does sound horrible. Even if its a bordeax type blend from napa.

Eric the Fruit Bat કહ્યું...

The man should donate his liver to science.

Michael The Magnificent કહ્યું...

I look forward to a couple of glasses of red wine with and after dinner. Sometimes I catch myself looking a bit too forward, and a bit too early in the day towards those glasses of wine, and I have to go cold turkey for a week or so just to assure myself things aren't getting out of hand.

That said, if it isn't a problem for Gerard, it certainly isn't a problem for me.

Cheers, Gerard!

traditionalguy કહ્યું...

Champagne is great white wine, and usually only. $10 or so a bottle. But most people seem to avoid it go for a so so Chardonay @ $30 a bottle. Why do they fear Champagne, or is it an identity issue?

MadisonMan કહ્યું...

If you want to do this, by the way, Clos du Mont-Olivet Cotes du Rhone Montueil-La Levade (2011) is a great choice.

kjbe કહ્યું...

Such a waste.

Scugger કહ્યું...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/benelux/130114/france-gerard-depardieu-belgium-tax-break-hollande

Gerard is obese.

Clyde કહ્યું...

Think of the savings for his family when he pops his final cork. No need for embalming! He'll already be pickled.

F કહ્યું...

A good friend while I lived in Central Africa, a French doctor, had a similar pattern. When I would stop by to see him in the afternoon he would always offer me a drink, and have one himself, but I didn't know the extent of his drinking until going on a hunting safari with him. We would leave camp very early in the morning, before which he would have a small glass of red wine. I had a different view of the man, though, when I saw him pour half a bottle of wine into his canteen, then fill it to the brim with water. It was clear he didn't want me to see him do this, and when he realized I had seen it, he made some joke about it killing the malaria or something. I never remember seeing him drunk, but then maybe I couldn't make a good comparison because I never saw him sober.

Lucien કહ્યું...

Some mornings are too cold for Champagne, so red wine makes sense. Where's the grappa, though?

David કહ્યું...

Tellingly, it's deeply telling that he said that.

David કહ્યું...

Punch line of an old joke: "Death by Pumba."

traditionalguy કહ્યું...

By the way, the Rule of chilling a white wine comes from hiding the taste of a bad white wine. just buy good whites and like reds they are great at room temp.

It's all in your mind that an unchilled white is wrong.

William કહ્યું...

Gerard Depardieu's soul is made visible in his body. Orwell said that you don't get the face you deserve until you're over forty. Gerard lives in a waist of shame

Rusty કહ્યું...

Drago said...
Yes, red wine in the morning does sound horrible. Even if its a bordeax type blend from napa.


Whan I was but a wee apprentice the journeymen in the shop were, almost to a man, from Germany. When you arrived in the morning, either on your tool box or on the machine you were using the day before was a shot of schnapps.
To this day I can't stand the stuff.

Rusty કહ્યું...

traditionalguy said...
By the way, the Rule of chilling a white wine comes from hiding the taste of a bad white wine. just buy good whites and like reds they are great at room temp.


I just get the stuff that gets you three bottles for twelve bucks at Meijer.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Let's not forget that Gerard was a great great actor. Just sayin'

Shanna કહ્યું...

Champagne is great white wine, and usually only. $10 or so a bottle. But most people seem to avoid it go for a so so Chardonay @ $30 a bottle.

This seems backwards to me. Although I hate Chardonnay so I haven't priced it lately.

I don't drink in the morning unless it's vacation. Or brunch.

Ryan કહ્યું...

He's not going to die because... he still has energy?

I don't follow that logic.

Ryan કહ્યું...

He's not going to die because... he still has energy?

I don't follow that logic.

MisterBuddwing કહ્યું...


A bit surprised that the Mail censored the word "pissed."

Doesn't that mean "drunk" in certain countries?

Unknown કહ્યું...

Good for Depardieu. You got to die of something so why not make it something fun?

I remember reading "The Thin Man" by Dashiell Hammett and being astonished by the main characters' (Nick and Nora Charles) consumption of alcohol. They basically wake up in the morning, start drinking, and keep drinking all day and all night until they go to sleep. In between drinks they successfully solve a murder mystery.

Ernest Hemingway's novels often had the same vibe -- Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises seems to be drunk for pretty much the entire book (admittedly he has reason to be as the reader finds out).

Maybe spending your entire waking life semi-plastered was a thing that a lot of people did in the first part of the 20th century until the medical profession ruined it for all of us with their "health warnings." Gerard isn't a hopeless drunk -- he's simply traditional.

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