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n. 1 A cocktail made with tequila, crème de cassis, lime juice and soda water 2 A cocktail made with tequila, orange juice and grenadine syrup
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Tequila Sunrise may refer to:
- Tequila Sunrise (cocktail)
- Tequila Sunrise (film), a 1988 film
- "Tequila Sunrise" (song), a song by the Eagles
- "Tequila Sunrise", a song by Cypress Hill
- "Tequila Sunrise", the finishing hold of professional wrestler Konnan
Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne. It stars Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, with Raúl Juliá, J. T. Walsh, Arliss Howard and Gabriel Damon in supporting roles.
The film, only the second (after Personal Best) to be both written and directed by Academy Award–winning screenwriter Towne, was commercially successful, making over $100 million at the box office worldwide, but critical reception was mixed. One reviewer was of the opinion that, "perhaps because the elements were so irresistible—Robert Towne directing Gibson, Russell and Pfeiffer in a California crime film—an aura of disappointment settled over Tequila Sunrise, no matter how engaging, and profitable, it turned out to be."
Tequila Sunrise was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. The film's soundtrack spawned the hit single "Surrender to Me", performed by Ann Wilson (lead singer of Heart) and Robin Zander (lead singer of Cheap Trick), where it went to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1989.
The Tequila Sunrise is a cocktail made of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup and served unmixed in a tall glass. The modern drink originates from Sausalito in the early 1970s, after an earlier one created in the 1930s in Phoenix, near Scottsdale. The cocktail is named for its appearance when served, with gradations of color resembling a sunrise.
"Tequila Sunrise" is a 1973 song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second album Desperado. The song peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.
A cover version was recorded by country music singer Alan Jackson on the 1993 tribute album Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Usage examples of "tequila sunrise".
Of course they told me later--these people I was with--I should have ordered a Mexican drink like a tequila sunrise, because, see, it's a Mexican kind of bar, there with the La Paz Restaurant.
He was wearing fawn-colored gabardine slacks and a yellow checked shirt buttoned to the neck and a cream-colored silk tweed sport coat with a pocket display handkerchief the color of a tequila sunrise.
He wandered off to serve a young woman with a hard face another Tequila Sunrise and eventually wandered back to Dohay.
Ive got fillings from the drip trays here that will pass for a Tequila Sunrise and set you back nearly three quid.
Seated in a rear booth, Toddy drank a double tequila sunrise and ordered another.
His was a plain soda water with lime, mine a white wine, and Vera's a tequila sunrise.
I left her seated alone, listening to the cocktail hour music and sipping a Tequila Sunrise.
Before he started on his lagers or hisLucozades he was served croissants, and devilish espresso, and onceor twice she coaxed him into humour with a Tequila Sunrise, wheresomething sweet fought the heavy tug of the booze.