April 23, 2014 3:00 PM EDT
It may not be everyone’s cup of whisky, but if sales are any indication, Scotch is more popular worldwide than ever before.
Scotch sales have nearly doubled over the past ten years to roughly $7 billion, according to the Scotch Whisky Association. The United States is the world’s leading importer of the drink, buying nearly $1.32 billion worth of the spirit each year. The drink can legally be called Scotch only if it’s made in Scotland and aged in oak casks for at least three years.
Well, the pitchforks are already sharpened and the torches lit anyway, so rather than let them go to waste, why not drag another so-called racist before the court of public opinion and see how much ratings-grabbing, head-shaking and race-shaming we can squeeze out of it? After all, the media got so much gleeful, hand-wringing mileage out of Don Sterling and Michael Brown.
The only problem is that Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson is no Donald Sterling.
Full Name: Maximilian Adelbert Baer
Profession: Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Biography: Max Baer was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1934 to 1935, taking the title from Primo Carnera. He eventually lost the championship to James J. Braddock in a fight that came to be known as the "Cinderella Man" bout. This fight was the basis of the 2005 film Cinderella Man, featuring Craig Bierko and Russell Crowe.
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Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O’Brien—not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St.