“The luck is gone, the brain is shot, but the liquor we still got” was said by the actor Bryan Brown in the movie Cocktail (1988). “The money’s gone, the brain is shot, but the liquor we still got” apparently was also in the film, although the “luck” version has been more popular.
Wikiquote: Cocktail (film)
Cocktail is a 1988 film starring Tom Cruise as a talented bartender who finds love with a girl he meets there, played by Elisabeth Shue, while working at a bar in Jamaica.
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Doug
The money’s gone, the brain is shot. But the liquor, we still got.
The Internet Movie Database
Cocktail (1988)
Quotes
Doug: The luck is gone / the brain is shot / but the liquor we still got.
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Justin Warfield
@justinwarfield
@StoneRokk @grahamfunke the luck is gone, the brain is shot, but the liquor we still got.
6:38 PM - 14 Nov 09
A History of Drinking
An Excuse To Drink – July 29, 1988: “Cocktail” Premieres
By Gregory Priebe
– July 28, 2011
Coughlin’s Law: The money’s gone, the brain is shot. But the liquor, we still got.
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Chris Mac
@MacCocktail
“The luck is gone, the brain is shot, but the liquor we still got.”
― Doug Coughlin, Cocktail
4:24 PM - 18 Jun 13
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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