Can you honor someone against their will?

Let’s start with the honor: In 1931, a bartender in Cuba invented a that they called the Douglas Fairbanks. It’s (or possibly gin, more on that below) with lemon, a touch of apricot, and an egg white, and named, obviously, for the silent film superstar. Douglas Fairbanks was the original Hollywood action hero, a fit, handsome, daring leading man who did all his own stunts, leaping over furniture in The Mark of Zorro and jumping down the mainsail in The Black Pirate , and was, at the time, among the most famous people in the world.

Bartenders did this kind of thing all the time—there was already a Charlie Chaplin cocktail and a Mary Pickford cocktail (arguably the only two actors more famous than Fairbanks himself), so it makes perfect sense t

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