Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

Puz 2: That cocktail wasn't easy for me... Popular in Europe, is it.. never heard of it.. shady..
I skimmed over the extra clue :bonk wish I hadn't

 

Yes, it is indeed a premium clue to the book, the one word that gives it all away (the actor confirms, as do the stars, although I'm guessing you missed that one), but alas the beverage is pretty much unknown in the US (or India, I'm guessing)!! You know, red blooded 'Muricans don't go for those wuss drinks! Next thing I know we'll have one of those colored concoctions with an umbrella in it, jeez!

May have to succumb and settle though ... since apparently we're running out of Marlboro-Man bourbon!

PS: Except for the Eng. Lits., of which I suspect there are a precious few in this audience, I doubt if anyone has ever heard of the book, famous though it is in the history of Eng. Lit.!

 

ANSWER TO PUZZLE IN POST #1729 (link)

Movie still is from "Divorce of Lady X"
If you have watched the duo in "Wuthering Heights" , watch them in this adorable movie. I love Laurence Olivier so I try to watch his collection.





Painting is "Portrait of Madame X"







The painting not as much popular for its artistic value as is popular for its sensational conception and history.


Wiki: Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of Pierre Gautreau. The model was an American expatriate who married a French banker, and became notorious in Parisian high society for her beauty and rumored infidelities. She wore lavender powder and prided herself on her appearance.


Sargent painted it initially as left shoulder strap slouching provocatively but later re-touched and painted straight up. You will find the simulated original versions on the net if you search.


Sargent hung Madame X first in his Paris studio, and later in his studio in London. Starting in 1905, he displayed it in a number of international exhibitions. In 1916, Sargent sold the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A second, unfinished version of the same pose, in which the position of the right shoulder strap remained unresolved, is in Tate, London.


May be I should have added Roentgen in the middle to link the connection.

 

ANSWER TO PUZZLE IN POST #1738 (link)

Everyone has cracked this one. OK, the "shandy" bit was obscure on both sides of the continent. The book features in top 10 humorous reads in English literature.




Image#1 Life (The first 2 chapters deal with conception of TS in funny manner)
Image#2 Opinion
Image#3 Tristar (close to pronunciation of Tristram, though not etymologically)
Image#4 Shandy (beer concoction)
Image#5 (Gentleman, plural (3) to prompt Tristram, tri-)

 

You missed the spectacular merger with "bibliolites" last week hence the literary up the ante.
thinkingsmiley (thought this book was quite popular; people might have heard even if unread)

 

Phew! thought one of those puzzles which will again go down as "Kya Aria tum bhi, you show me something , say something and the connection is a brodie"

Glad it wasn't all that smokey.

 

You mean the stars from puzzle#1 injected as tristram in puzzle#3
Yes, I missed to add that. You are right!
In fact didn't pay much attention to the background till Gauri spotted it.

AND THERE ARE ONLY 3 BRIGHT STARS!