Tonight we are holding our Saturday Night At The Movies double feature in honor of Stella Stevens, who joined the ancestors yesterday. The Nutty Professor (1963) and The Silencers (1966).

The Nutty Professor also pays tribute to the great Stella with its theme music, the tune Stella By Starlight as played by Les Brown and his Band of Renown.

#film #StellaStevens #NuttyProfessor #MattHelm

And do you know that crazy #cocktail that #BuddyLove orders? The #AlaskanPolarBearHeater? Well, we made up a batch of them and @noramaynard wrote it up in her column in The Kitchn. The verdict? Well, we never made them again!

https://www.thekitchn.com/the-celluloid-p-27-12171

We Review Alaskan Polar Bear Heaters, the Crazy Cocktail from The Nutty Professor

β€œYou going to drink this here, or are you going to take it home and rub it on your chest?” It’s the cocktail to end all cocktails. In The Nutty Professor (1963), nebbishy chemistry instructor, Julius Kelp (Jerry Lewis), goes all Jekyll and Hyde when he mixes himself up a strengthening potion with some startling side effects.

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@culturednyc @noramaynard I am frowning my most severe frown right now at the contents of this drink. Also, remembering the many "that was interesting but never again" cocktail-inventing experiments in my past. (If there's a way to successfully incorporate Riga Black Balsam into a cocktail, we never did find it.)
@culturednyc Only made the connection to 'Stella by Starlight' with your post just now! 😯