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Bradley Cooper on his sobriety: “I’ve been very lucky”.

Actor-director Bradley Cooper spoke to Bear Grylls about his sobriety during an appearance in a Season 2 episode of the popular National Geographic series Running Wild With Bear Grylls.

The actor is now celebrating his 19th year of sobriety, having first sought help in 2004, at the age of 29.

Cooper had realized that his drinking was becoming a problem and decided to seek treatment:

“I got sober at 29, and I’ve been sober for 19 years. I’ve been very lucky,” he says.

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The actor also admits to Grylls, as reported by Variety, that his alcoholism helped him in 2018 for the character of Jackson Maine in the very first film he directed, A Star Is Born:

“It made it easier to be able to really enter in there… and thank goodness I was at a place in my life where I was at ease with all of that, so I could really let myself go.”

Cooper’s journey to sobriety is certainly an inspiring example for many struggling with addiction.

Looking to the future, note that Bradley Cooper is retrying the feat of simultaneously directing and starring in his brand-new biographical film about the life of the late conductor Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, out in cinemas on November 22 and on Netflix on December 20.

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Valeri Nichushkin’s agent breaks silence on “alcohol-related incident”

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The Colorado Avalanche have been without forward Valeri Nichushkin for the past two games in the first round series against the Seattle Kraken due to “personal reasons”. It all started prior to Game 3 when Nichushkin was designated a late scratch and was reported to have gone to the airport and departed Seattle.

More details later came from Frank Seravalli of The Daily Faceoff, who mentioned on the “Halford & Brough in the Morning” show on Vancouver’s Sportsnet 650 that Nichushkin’s absence is reportedly due to an alcohol-related incident at the team hotel in Seattle.

On Wednesday, Nichushkin’s agent Mark Gandler broke silence on the rumoured incident and denied the recent rumors.

“Nichushkin left Colorado because of problems with alcohol? This is not so.” Gandler told MetaRatings.

Though Gandler does not say a whole lot more about Nichushkin and what is keeping him out of action, the agent made it clear it had nothing to do with problems with alcohol.

Nichushkin appeared in 53 games for the defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche this season, scoring 17 goals while adding 30 assists. He was a force in Colorado’s title run last season, tallying nine goals in 20 playoff games and helping the Avalanche to their first Stanley Cup since 2001.

There will surely be more about this developing story coming out in the next few days. Later tonight, the Avalanche faces the Kraken in Game 5 of this series, which is tied 2-2.

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Cottage Life

7 (other) Canadian cocktails to try

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Move over, Caesar! These seven cocktails have Canadian roots too.

Moose Milk

The Canadian navy, army, and air force all claim to have invented this one. The milkshake-like concoction includes rum, coffee liqueur, ice cream, and maple syrup, plus nutmeg and cinnamon. Huh. It’s possible that we’d rather drink actual milk from a moose, but sure.

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The Caribou

Combine red wine, rye whiskey, and maple syrup for this sweet take on mulled wine. The drink allegedly originated from an old fur-trapper’s drink that mixed whiskey with caribou blood. Well, desperate times call for…something desperately disgusting, apparently.

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The B-52

A bartender in Banff, Alta., named Peter Fich created this cocktail in the late ’70s. He named the drink—a layered cocktail containing coffee liqueur, orange liqueur, and Irish Cream—after a New Wave band from the state of Georgia. He concocted all kinds of drinks, all named after his favourite bands, but the B-52 was the only one that became popular.

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The Raymond Massey

The who? Raymond Massey was a Canadian actor most well-known for playing Abraham Lincoln—he portrayed the man in multiple plays and movies, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois, for which he received an Oscar nomination. The drink is a mix of whiskey and ginger syrup topped with champagne and garnished with lemon peel.

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The Angry Canadian

Another drink that includes maple syrup, the Angry Canadian is a twist on the Old Fashioned, invented in 2013. It’s a combination of whiskey, bitters, club soda, and, of course, the syrup, which replaces the sugar in a traditional Old Fashioned. Why is it angry? Unclear. Maybe if you drink too many you get riled up.

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The Donald Sutherland

If you don’t know who Donald Sutherland is, you have no business calling yourself Canadian. Just kidding. But also: watch Six Degrees of Separation. Or Outbreak. Or The Italian Job. Or…tons of other movies. Sutherland is apparently a fan of rye whiskey—this twist on a Rusty Nail includes the spirit.

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The Sourtoe Cocktail

Okay, so maybe “cocktail” is a misnomer, since this drink, invented in Dawson City, Yukon, is just a shot of whiskey. Oh, with the addition of a preserved human toe. Allegedly, in the ’70s, someone found a jar containing a human toe in a remote Yukon cabin—the toe was left there by a pair of brothers, one of whom had frostbite, so the toe had to come off. And be put in a jar. Obviously. And then the jar-finder decided to make a drink that involved the toe. Because…? Well, Robert Service did say that “there are strange things done in the midnight sun,” so we’ll just go with that.

There is no recipe. It’s whiskey. And a toe.

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New Research on Alcoholic Beverages

While many people believe that consuming one alcoholic drink in an hour will not make their blood alcohol level go over the legal limit, MedlinePlus reveals a new study that found that bartenders are putting a lot more alcohol in drinks than people think.
 
Investigators visited 80 Californian bars and restaurants last year, and discovered that the typical servings of wine or cocktails exceeded 50% of the standard volume. This signifies that if people are trying to be reasonable by following recommendations and drinking one glass of alcohol per hour, their alcohol levels may be higher than they assumed.
 
Dwight Heath, an anthropology professor at Brown University, said that his study "points out a dirty little secret of alcohol research: The definition of ‘standard drink’ is inaccurate and out-of-date."