Tom Berenger • July/Aug 2007
Features
The Good Fight
There are history buffs and then there are military history buffs. Actor Tom Berenger will casually mention that he's a bit of a history buff, but there's little about …
More Confessions of a Weekend Golfer
The Match: Greg Norman and Marvin R. Shanken vs. Raymond Floyd and Rush Limbaugh The Track: Old Palm Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida The Weather: Mid-80s, one-club wind …
Pro Golf's Late Bloomers
For more than two decades the Champions Tour (nee the Senior PGA Tour) has been a rolling annuity for players who reach the magical age of 50. For players like Lee Trevino, Hale …
Derby Girls
"To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well …
Camp Poker Champ
People once scoffed at the idea of teaching someone how to win money at high-level poker. It seemed as ridiculous as coaching a would-be Romeo on the fine points of French …
Partners for your Pod
It seems funny to me that Apple, whose computer business encourages abandoning lockstep adherence to Microsoft's overwhelming dominance and embracing a quirkier, less mainstream …
Mercedes on the Mend
Racing between appointments, Chris Marie dashed into the parking lot, dodging raindrops as she fumbled for the keys to her Mercedes-Benz C230. Tossing her briefcase onto the …
Rum Revival
It takes only about three swings with a machete to recognize that I have no future as a harvester of sugarcane. I'm too tall, too fragile of back and too soft to last long in the …
Cigars
A Life In Baseball
The Mets' Omar Minaya, the sport's first Hispanic general manager, has always had the game in his blood, first as a young playing prospect, then as a prescient scout and now as an …
Wives, Smoking and Cohibas
The combination doesn't always click, even for the head of a major Cuban cigar factory
A Night to Remember
Springtime in New York City, and the Grill Room of the Four Seasons Restaurant was shoulder-to-shoulder with men in tuxedos smoking cigars. They had gathered together in an effort …
Moving Forward in Nicaragua
Nicaragua's cigarmakers craft their smokes while keeping one way eye on the country's new president
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
Politically Correct Movie Ratings
The Motion Picture Association of America issued a revision to its movie ratings system in May. Now, every movie in which smoking occurs on the screen will be given an R rating …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, Once again, you've outclassed and outdone the mainstream media with your reporting on Cuba. I just finished reading your June 2007 issue entitled "Cuba Tomorrow," …
Gin and Tonic
Watching sparkling bubbles ascend the glass through luxuriant icy clouds to effervesce in tiny explosions at the drink's surface next to a floating wedge of lime, it's difficult …
The Good Life
Max Benjamin Mini Cigar Bar
Here's the rub: you are not allowed to take your vacation in your cigar bar and you cannot ship your cigar bar to your holiday destination. What to do? Max Benjamin offers a more …
Tag Heuer Aquaracer Caliber S Chronograph
The annual regatta at your local yacht club may not be the America's Cup, but it can be just as cutthroat, so when you hoist the cloth at the starting line, you want to wear a …
Lexus LS600h
If you think of Lexus as the affordable luxury brand, a glance at the sticker on the new LS600h sedan might shock you. The Japanese automaker's top-line four-door commands a …
Ride a Roller Coaster
The slow-moving car inches toward the crest, crystallizing my perilous predicament with its persistent click, click, click. As I prepare for the rush of speed, sweat pools in the …
Verizon V Cast Mobile TV
Are you one of the millions of Americans not getting enough television in your diet? Are there entire days when you don't enjoy a single delicious moment of "The Daily Show"? Do …
Aviator Sunglasses
Pick your fantasy—the self-possessed pilot with hat cocked back, Douglas MacArthur earnestly striding up a Philippine beach, Marlon Brando looking menacing on a motorcycle, a …
Saratoga Springs
You can't help but feel that a vacation to Saratoga Springs should be spent strictly at the racecourse wearing a boater , a seersucker suit and a pair of saddle shoes in late …
Great Grills
A man mightn't be the king of his castle anymore, but every summer he can at least claim principality on his patio when he torches up a really serious stainless steel grill. We …