{"id":5297,"date":"2006-09-14T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:47:24","slug":"dean-martin-appreciation-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Dean Martin on his Drunk Act: “If anyone drank that much, how long you think people’d keep hirin’ him?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>:<\/p>\n

In our brief conversation, the last thing I asked Martin was about the many jokes already then being made about his drinking. He shrugged. “They don’t bother me, but they’re a little silly. If anyone drank that much, how long you think people’d keep hirin’ him?” He paused, but not for an answer. “Oh, don’t get me wrong, I drink<\/i>. But I hardly ever get drunk. I don’t mind the jokes though. Matter of fact, they kinda help the image, you know what I mean?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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