Cocktails in cinema, vintage spirits, absinthe, liqueur history

Bottoms up! We're all about the tipple this week.

• Historian Hadley Meares looks at how Hollywood sips cocktails on the big screen
• Aaron Goldfarb follows collectors hunting for vintage spirits
• Sociologist Nicola Nice takes a look at how women brought the cocktail home
• Lesley Jacobs Solmonson explains how liqueurs went from the hands of the apothecary to those of the mixologist
• Evan Rail plays detective, looking back on an absinthe enthusiast who became a con artist

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