Vesper (cocktail) Vesper (cocktail) The Vesper or Vesper Martini is a cocktail that was originally made of gin, vodka, and Kina Lillet. The drink was invented and named by Ian Fleming in the 1953 James Bond novel "Casino Royale". Fleming continues with Bond telling the barman, after taking a long sip, "Excellent ... but if you can get a vodka made with grain instead of potatoes, you will find it still better," and then adds in an aside, ""Mais n'enculons pas des mouches"" (—a vulgar French expression meaning "let's not split hairs"). Bond in the next chapter, "Pink Lights and Champagne", names
Laurie Lynd planned feature film which recasts "Romeo and Juliet" as a romance between two gay university athletes from rival fraternities. The feature project is now in development and tentatively slated for release in 2016. Laurie Lynd Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film "Breakfast with Scot". In his early career, Lynd made the short films "Together and Apart" (1986) and "RSVP" (1991), the latter of which was cited by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the