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LEAVE IT TO THE COMEDIAN to have the last laugh. Joey Bishop outlived all the more famous--and more raucous--Rat Packers. By the 1960s he had earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about...
...Frank Sinatra was the star behind the original 1960 Ocean's Eleven (original in that it came first) and three ensuing, numerical Rat Pack capers: Sergeants 3, 4 Guns for Texas, Robin and the 7 Hoods. Frank and his pals - Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop - weren't trying to commit art, or even make vital entertainment. Really, they had expectations no higher than the Soderbergh-Clooney mob. Both groups were underachievers and proud...
...DIED. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, elegant member of the Kennedy political clan whose 1954 marriage to British actor Peter Lawford wedded her family to Hollywood; in New York City. Said to be the prettiest Kennedy sister, she was also the most independent-though her parents thought she lacked ambition. She worked in TV, wed the Rat Packer and settled into a California beach house later dubbed White House West because of J.F.K.'s regular visits. After moving back east-and divorcing Lawford in 1966-the mother of four published That Shining Hour, reminiscences of R.F.K., and later founded the National...
DIED. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, elegant member of the Kennedy political clan whose 1954 marriage to British actor Peter Lawford wedded her family to Hollywood; in New York City. Said to be the prettiest Kennedy sister, she was also the most independent--though her parents thought she lacked ambition. She worked in TV, wed the Rat Packer and settled into a California beach house later dubbed White House West because of J.F.K.'s regular visits. After moving back east--and divorcing Lawford in 1966--the mother of four published That Shining Hour, reminiscences of R.F.K., and later founded the National...
...That was one of the few times when Allyson's prim allure as a movie wife was questioned. (The Shrike, 10 years later, was the other big critique.) Mostly, her job was to talk sense into her men. Football star Peter Lawford, say, in Good News - she wanted him to hit the books so he'd be eligible to win the big game. Her only severe competition came not from the script but on the screen. Her sweetness might get upstaged by a flashier femme, as she was by Joan McCracken in Good News. Sometimes Allyson lost to a rival...