IKE
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Remember the Rat Pack ?
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RadishRose
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Yes, I do. I liked Dean Martin but not the others; don't know why. Actually, I never paid that much attention to them.
hearlady
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I'm fascinated with that whole Rat Pack, Marilyn, Camelot, Dimaggio times.
The "Families" with their Godfathers.
I grew up near Boston. Sat at a few large Italian dinners. I was a child but it all seemed cool to me..
Now just an era.
The "Families" with their Godfathers.
I grew up near Boston. Sat at a few large Italian dinners. I was a child but it all seemed cool to me..
Now just an era.
Geezer Garage
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Bogart was also part of the original group.
Devi
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I thought it was Angie Dickinson who was part of -- or on the side of? -- the Rat Pack. But what do I know? LOL
StarSong
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Big fan of Dino and Frank. Less so the rest. Have always loved Shirley MacLaine. Apparently both she and Angie were honorary Rat Packers and hung out with the guys.
hollydolly
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yes remember them of course.. I liked Dean and Sammy, ..knew Frank of course but didn't pay attention to the rest..
Drinking and partying happened on stage and off, with Martin often portrayed as the group’s heaviest imbiber and the butt of related jokes. “He’s got a tan because he found a bar with a skylight,” Sinatra would often quip about his pal.
Other celebrities who were regular inhabitants of the Pack’s orbit both on and off stage included Shirley MacLaine, Dickinson and Marilyn Monroe. “Oh, the Rat Pack. I’ll never forget all the fun we had,” MacLaine said to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2017. “They used to drag me up on the stage, but there wasn’t any dragging. I loved it. We’d make jokes and the crowd ate it up. … The Rat Pack taught me so many things about comedy and live performing.”
While the Rat Pack taught America to swing in the first half of the sixties, the latter half would deliver the British Invasion of rock acts such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the counter culture movement, the escalation of the Vietnam War and civil unrest. The "life’s a party" appeal of the Pack was waning.
Sinatra severed ties with the Sands in 1967 when billionaire Howard Hughes bought the property and cut off the singer’s casino credit line. The blue-eyed crooner packed his bags, his act and allure, and decamped to the newly opened Caesar’s Palace across the street. Mob interest in the town would soon be eclipsed by corporate conglomerates.
Alligatorob
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StarSong
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Sinatra's & Hughes's relationship had soured well before that. Hughes was in love with Ava Gardner, who ran off and married Sinatra. (They divorced but remained lifelong friends and were reputed to have been each other's deepest loves.)
Hughes's move was shortsighted. Sinatra transitioned from one generation's star to a multigenerational icon with Caesar's help. Just as the International, which soon became the Las Vegas Hilton, and is now known as the Westgate, became synonymous with Elvis Presley, Caesar's became identified as Sinatra's playground and frequent top-billed showroom act.
Even today, those hotels still stand and continue to pay homage to their two iconic performers.
The Sands? It was bulldozed in 1996.
Sassycakes
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I was always a fan of Dean, Sammy, and Joey. I never was a fan of Peter or Frank. I even got my Mom and Dad tickets to see Dean and he even kissed my Mom.
Tempsontime65
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Of course, too bad that Sammy had to find out the hard way, that hangin with Frank and the boys didn't gain him admission to everything!
He already knew that