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Hamm's |
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| Hamm's is a cheap beer. I was
turned on to it by the firm of Rice,
Rudder, & McCaleb,
years ago. Truthfully, I do not have very discerning tastes about
beer, so I couldn't really tell you, taste-wise, why I prefer it to other
cheap beers. But it does, for me, have a mystique that other cheap beers
do not. And furthermore:
Hamm's appears in Cassavetes' Woman Under the Influence, several times throughout the film. It is the beer that Peter Falk drinks. Hamm's also appears in the Maysles brothers' Gimme Shelter; it's the beer that the Hell's Angels were actually drinking at Altamont. This is, of course, a somewhat ignominious association, but nonetheless an appearance in a truly great film. So Funny Ha Ha, too, now joins that fine tradition. It is not only the beer of choice of Dave (Myles Paige), but was also our beer of choice on set. (And the design of the can, as a comparison of the films will show you, has excellently not changed at all in 33 years.) |
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