The only thing thicker in the air than the cigarette smoke and packing a bigger kick than the cocktails were the insults. “The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts” celebrated the art of the put-down, but ...

These roasts had everybody squirming.

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts belong to that category of pop culture ephemera that manages to embody all the excesses of its immediate cultural moment and yet survives the passage of time and taste ...