Enter my new contest: Celebrity Pub Crawl
UPDATE: This week’s contest is closed! The winner will be announced tomorrow - I will get meet with two trustworthy members of the public. I will ask one to write the names of the entrants on pieces of paper and stick them in the hat. The other will pick the winner. Look for a new contest on Thursday and thanks to everyone who participated in this one.
Hot on the heels of The Haiku Challenge, I’m kicking off this blog’s second contest: Celebrity Pub Crawl. The idea: each week I post a photo of a movie character or two and readers propose which bar (or bars) they’d take him, her, or them to.
List your bar recommendation in the comments section of this post and you’ll be entered into a weekly draw for:
- A bottle of Grace Vineyard Tasya’s Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from Torres
- A package of four books - Insider’s Guide to Beijing 2008, Mandarin Phrasebook, Healthy Chinese Cuisine: A Restaurant Ordering Guide, and Spicy Chinese Cuisine: A Restaurant Ordering Guide - from Immersion Guides.
I will put up a new celebrity photo every Thursday. The deadline for entering the draw is Tuesday at noon. The winner will be announced the next day. (Note: I can only ship prizes to addresses in Beijing. One entry per week per person, please.)
Here we go…
Week 1: Celebrity Pub Crawl
Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice (the TV show, not the movie)
(c) NBC Universal
Frankly, I’m taking Crockett and Tubbs to BabyFace and somehow we are getting their Ferrari Daytona Spider inside so they can smash it through the glass facade, do a 360 on Gongti West, tear up the Pavillion’s patio, and then race off, all while Tubbs casually reclines in the front seat with a bottle of Chivas in one hand and a bottle of green tea in the other. And later we’ll cruise down Sanlitun North so they can rough up some “lady bar” touts.
Anyway, check the opening credits of the show and a clip that I think of every time I hear Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”, the latter covered in this Wikipedia entry:
While the show didn’t invent pastels it made them popular. The other aspects of Miami Vice considered revolutionary lay in its music, cinematography, and imagery, which made large segments of each episode resemble a protracted music video. Perhaps the best example of combining these three aspects is found in the pilot episode “Brother’s Keeper” when Crockett and Tubbs are in the Ferrari Daytona Spyder, driving through a damp, nighttime Miami downtown heading to a somber showdown with a sinister, murdering drug lord as “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins surrealistically plays along.
Think I’ll get out the pastel shirt this weekend. In the meantime, post your itinerary and you’ll have a chance to win wine and books - do any two things go better together?
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Trivia — what was the elevator pitch for “Miami Vice”?
@ Schwankertmania,
MTV cops?
Cheers, Boyce
i think i’d get them to Bus Bar, where they’d quickly realize they are in the wrong city and hop the next plane to Shanghai.
I think it’d have to be Bar Blu- they’d feel right at home with the funky decor and horrific dancing…
@ m-dawg,
I dunno… the new Bus Bar is awfully blinged out…
@ James,
Plus, I don’t think the building’s bouncers would bother these two.
Cheers, Boyce
Ideally, it will be a tuesday! We’d go to the spyker car dealership and “borrow” one two matching convertibles, a blue and red one!
once that is done, go to centro for a quick martini while discussing the actions that will follow. plan is laid out! A quick drive over to babyface/angel area of gongti to make sure the beijing jet-set is safe and sound.. a couple of drinks, a little fist fight with a triad member follows because he didn’t like the way Crocket looked at her. he took the bait…
now heading to face to see how much “opium” is to be found around the dens… that would go without a hitch…it’s all good.
we’re getting close to midnight and it’s time to head over to Suzi wong’s for salsa night! The guys finally feel like they found the ace in a hole…. as the conversations progress between sweaty bodies, it turns out that the girl they’ve been eying is ai wan! She like the funky style and the sock-less shoes… They get invited for a private party on her Yatch parked about 1 hour away at the beach front. Eveyone gets in the sportcars and floors them looking forward to a sunrise on a boat with flowing champagne
@ Badr,
I forgot about Salsa night. Nice call.
Cheers, Boyce
Where else would you take these two classy men but to the classiest bars in BJ - Sanlitun Jiuba jie. You know they’d love it ;)
I remember Crockett and Tubbs. I use to watch those losers when my kids were little! I’m not familiar with the club scene here but judging from your hint, I’d take them to guacamole Hallaboloo. If there is not a club by that name, there should be.
Start off with dinner at the Garden of Delights at Wangfujing to impress these guests from out of town. Then finish eating with desserts (”high-end donuts”) at Le Palais and start the night off with sparkling wine. After dinner, drinks at the Q bar before hitting Sanlitun streets to send the ISB kids home then deciding who the true villains are out of the crowd: customer-beating bar-owners, ring of beggars, obnoxious customers or violent minorities?
Oh, no, these guys are SO Suzie Wong’s.
I’d probably leave them to it and go to Souk myself; just so long as I got a ride over there in the Spyder. Can you get 3 people in a Spyder??
An entry also came in via email from J.K. who points out the obvious (which is so easily missed):
“I’d take them to Alfa ’80s night. Duh.”
alfa’s 80’s night was my first choice but it gets too crowded there and can’t easily navigate a sporstcar in that street. plus these two would have been coming from Miami and need a modarate amount of glitz