"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy." - Frank Sinatra … [Read more...] about Saturday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week
Dean Martin
Friday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week
Wednesday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week
A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans is recruited by Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Lawford) to rob five different Las Vegas casinos (Sahara, Riviera, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Sands and the Flamingo) on a single night. The gang plans the elaborate New Year's Eve heist with the precision of a military operation. Josh Howard (Davis) takes a job as a … [Read more...] about Wednesday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week
Monday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week
How The Sands hotel secured The Rat Pack In 1960, an unlikely group of entertainers, all loosely gathered around Frank Sinatra, went to Las Vegas to shoot a movie and do two nightclub shows each evening, spending most of the hours in between at all-night parties. Billed, with intentional swagger, as "the Summit" (a reference to the coming conference of Eisenhower, de Gaulle, … [Read more...] about Monday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week