The recent passing of Joey Bishop marked the last of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack. Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Bishop were a talented and raffishly stylish group that defined Las Vegas for a decade or more.
Sinatra and Lawford in particular were always well dressed, with a bit of silk in their jacket pockets.
One of the best ways to catch a glimpse of the Rat Pack is to view the original (1960) Ocean's Eleven. The Pack played themselves while they played their parts. And they did it with, for want of a better word, class.
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I think possibly you mean the recent passing of Joey Bishop - Sammy Davis died in 1990.
Thanks to the readers who pointed out that my original post suffered from hasty editing and/or brain lock. I wrote about the recent passing of Sammy Davis when it was Joey Boshop who had died. Davis left us almost twenty years ago. Corrected now, hopfully.
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