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Inside the Actors Studio is one of the programs Anirban successfully hooked me to, he failed with Office(british version) but I did start liking Ricky Gervais. So while searching for unwatched episodes of ITAS I staggered upon some clippings of Liza Minnelli. I found them to be very witty and touching, but the greatest part was when she sang. She sand a few songs like "Quiet Love","Dont Smoke in Bed","If you hadn't but you did"and the most romantic of all "As time goes by"... It brings back memories of Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman sitting at Rick's Cafe Americaine pleading to the pianist to play and sing the song for her when Humphrey Bogart walks in! here are the lyrics! You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two lovers woo They still say, I love you On this you can rely No matter what the future brings As time goes by Moonlight and love songs Never out of d

This post is about one of the finer things of life and that is wine. Wine, itself, is enigmatic, even to people who don't like drinking much of it. But I am one of them who loves it when it blooms on the taste buds with its myriad flavours, awakening the senses (only good wines do that). As a high school student I wanted to be a wine-taster at Napa Valley, it was triggered off by the new version of the movie the Parent-Trap. The Californian vineyard had singularly held my attention throughout the film. Over a period of time I gathered information on the types of wines and the different countries that make a good one. French wine obviously is numero uno followed by Italian, German, South African, so on and so forth. Although Europeans do not consider american wines to be very good Robert Mondavi surely begs to differ. French red and white grape varieties are certianly the most well known, like chenin blanc, cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. India has tried replicating these wine v