The cast is said to have capped every day's shooting with an energetic evening of boozing and carousing, much as Frank and Dino and One-Eyed Sammy did while filming in Old Vegas 40 years ago.
In April 2012, 13 secret service employees were suspected of soliciting prostitutes and carousing in advance of a presidential visit to Colombia.
Drinking, carousing, I was drunk at Bafta.
(In interviews, Ms Peng has described her husband as a simple man who enjoys carousing only occasionally, with close friends).In this, Ms Peng would have less in common with the infamous Madame Mao than she does with the wife of Mao's arch-enemy, Chiang Kai-shek.
But in fact business is much as usual.At least the police are not rigorously enforcing a threatened ban on carousing after 2am.
But the rowdy carousing often associated with British pubs at the weekend is absent.
Scrolling through the streaming screens on a Saturday night, viewers can jump at will from carousing teenagers in Scotland to stoic gamers in Sapporo.Some amateur gamers have gained huge audiences through streaming sites like Twitch, just as they have on other forms of media.
People were, unsurprisingly, at their happiest when eating, carousing or pottering around the garden.
While Mr Salmond had been hatching grand plans to rid Scotland of the capitalist (read: English) yoke, Mr Cameron had been carousing in Brasenose College, Oxford, as a member of the Bullingdon Club, a private drinking society known for smashing up the venues at which it drank.
The twentysomething participants have known each other for only a few days and yet already these Albanians, Serbs, Macedonians and Bosnians are carousing, toasting and hugging as though there is no tomorrow.
A hard-partying playboy has been spoiled by years of carousing.
