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How Did the Rat Pack Meet?

OK, “The Rat Pack” probably didn’t summon that last image to mind for most of you. But it should. Because while today the name is synonymous with early ’60s cool and classic Vegas casino culture, the ...
Hanging out in Las Vegas. Bacall’s husband Humphrey Bogart is cited as one of the original members of the Rat Pack and the first leader of the group. Bogie and Bacall would often entertain their ...
Scientists haven't given us time machines yet, but if you've always harbored a yen to travel back to Las Vegas circa 1960, when Frank Sinatra and pals like Dean Martin turned the town upside down ...
From 9 January the Christmas tree and decorations will be put away for another year and audiences can enjoy the original The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas. The Sands hotel was the very height of ...
While filming in 1960, Rat Pack members did two shows in the Copa Room each evening, then spent the night partying. No one knew when the film might wrap, but one of the pack usually showed up on ...
2001-03-11 04:00:00 PDT LAS VEGAS-- We caught the Rat Pack's act the other night. ... Now's a good time to mention that admission to the original Rat Pack show, including dinner, cost $5.
Something startling happens during the early part of "The Rat Pack Live in Las Vegas." One is struck by the physical resemblance, the vocal technique and the sheer mastering of mimicry of the ...
There are many shows that have paid tribute to the swinging "Rat Pack" days of Frank Sinatra and his crew in Las Vegas, but they often leave out the guy who was the real comic engine of those free ...
Stripped of magnetism, the boozing, broad-chasing re-creations of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. (Gary Corsello, Steve Apple, Lonnie Parlor) are shallow, and lines that slipped ...
Eagan recalls Vegas as being quite small then — “less than 30,000 people” — and everyone was crazy about the Rat Pack. After the shows — after Dean had sung “Sittin’ on Top of the ...
If you're a fan of Rat Pack performers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., it's not too late to visit some of their favorite haunts.
Devised and directed by Mitch Sebastian, the well-known show The Rat Pack-Live From Las Vegas now returns to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, where it ran back in 2003.