Word: rat
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...gigantic Sinatra fan. Some people find it hard to believe that a high school student would listen to someone as "dull and old" as he. That was exactly how I felt until about a year ago, when I discovered the hip coolness that Frank and his Rat Pack buddies displayed in their heyday. When I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago, I went into my room, turned out the lights and listened to In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning...for an entire night. Even with the variety of music around these days, such as alternative...
...University of Maryland, he learned that a local station needed someone to perform with puppets on a children's show. Henson wasn't particularly interested in puppets, but he did want to get into TV, so he and a friend made a couple--one was called Pierre the French Rat--and they were hired...
...could see the lingering lure of Astaire art in the reaction to Frank Sinatra's death. That wasn't just Rat Pack nostalgia. It was an effusion of fondness and respect for a fine song finely sung, for vocal connoisseurship, for the ability--the first or the thousandth time he sings a song--to mine the meaning of a lyric...
...sleeve, connected him from the first to the big feelings that the '60s passed along to the decades that followed. We just didn't see it at the time. And by now, baby boomers who once turned away from him are old enough to recognize how he created the Rat Pack in part as a defense against his own aging, a way to keep the party going as he reached his mid-40s. What do they have that compares? Seinfeld? It died a few hours before Sinatra...
...first version of the Rat Pack dates to the mid-'50s, when it convened around Humphrey Bogart. But the name entered the collective consciousness only after Bogart's death in 1957, when Sinatra assumed leadership and gathered in new buddies like Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. Their supreme moment arrived in early 1960, when Sinatra, Davis, Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop gathered in Las Vegas to film the casino-robbery caper Ocean's Eleven. Every night for three weeks, after the day's shooting was over, they all played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino...