Whether in musicals, nonmusical dramas or solo cabaret shows, she drew audiences to her with her whiskey voice, her seen-it-all manner and the blunt charisma of a star.
I laughed as I imagined Kate wandering obliviously up to the famous actor, spilling her whiskey on her leg while screaming over the music, "Yo, you on Facebook?" Then without waiting for an answer laughing to herself back to the bar. .
Ten years behind a bar, a background in biology and chemistry, and her talent for finding a story in a glass of whiskey brought her to her starring role with Old Forester.
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Her mother, who died a few years ago, at ninety-one, told her that in Louisiana a white man had taken a bottle of whiskey from her father and that her father had gone to his car and got his tire iron, and after he used it to hit the man in the head they migrated north.
When the relationship ended, Ms. Wells was devastated, but her ex-boyfriend's stepmother, Jane (the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard), consoled her with quotations from Byron, while his father, Kingsley Amis, poured her whiskey and patted her hand.
Her mezzo is dark, rich, emotional, tough, whereas the woman she would be playing sang with a strong hint of helium in her throat, no matter how whiskey soaked her voice might become.
Gran is snoring again, clutching her whiskey bottle to her chest.
