BOOZE! It may not be quite as good a come-on as SEX! but there's also a double shot of sexiness in "Hey Bartender," which despite its shot-and-beer title is about the fine art of mixology, a.k.a. the alchemical mixing of alcoholic beverages (with names like Weep No More, the Minnehaha and the always fashionable Bronx, which is, FYI, a perfect martini with orange juice). Is liquor cinematic? Hell, it can make anything cinematic, including the floor of your car, but writer/director Douglas Tirola aims considerably higher than that in a doc that blends one part character study, two parts high style, and a dash of history about the American cocktail.The tragedy of Prohibition, we learn through Tirola's film, is what caused a rather lofty pursuit to become a déclassé occupation, but that, of course, has changed. One of Tirola's human assets is Dale DeGroff, a.k.a "King Cocktail," a near-mythic figure among cocktailers who worked most famously at New York's Rainbow Room, ...
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