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...Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). These two basically cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...
High Society (1956) What the Rat Pack movies should have been: briskly plotted and musically irrepressible. A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, with Frank joined by Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong. Bing/Frank duet "Well Did You Evah" is sheer...
...Northern Ireland. The IRA won?t stop Sinn Fein from voting yes on the deal, but part of the fine print calls for paramilitaries to hand in their guns and semtex over the next two years. If they?re not going to do that, Protestant leaders smell a rat. ?You cannot say there?s a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth and ready for action,? fumed Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. Like it or not, a sustained cease-fire is the best the Irish can hope...
...space, no one can hear you squeak. Scientific progress has claimed the lives of 45 baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia, five times the expected death toll, after the mothers of these experimental rodents refused to suckle their young. It's a pretty serious blow, not least for the brain development tests astronauts were hoping to run. Now NASA is set to placate the fears of animal rights groups with an official rat death inquiry...
...Bassett considers herself an expert in gym fads. She has taken orders from aerobic Step Nazis; she has pumped iron with the manly men. She ran like a rat on a treadmill and searched for Nirvana in yoga. Very little about her body changed over seven years, mostly because she seesawed from five-day-a-week workouts to none at all. Last November the Manhattan jewelry designer noticed a story about Pilates, a regimen based on stretching exercises. "I had no idea how to even pronounce it," says Bassett of her impulsive call to make an appointment...