rat pack

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While some welcome the city’s ascendance as a pro sports destination, others are nostalgic for a bygone era embodied by the Tropicana — when lounge acts like the Frank Sinatra-led Rat Pack made Vegas world famous and sparkling resorts materialized in the desert.

From New York Times

She talks about their romantic relationship, and the legendary rat pack member’s inner struggles.

From Seattle Times

While his skills as an old-school crooner — not to mention his trademark fedora — were convincing enough to land him a gig as Frank Sinatra in a Las Vegas revue called “The Rat Pack Is Back!” in the 1990s, he was best known as a silky-voiced master of so-called blue-eyed soul.

From New York Times

Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., donned black tie for the festivities held in the Beverly Hilton’s grand ballroom.

From Seattle Times

By the turn of the 1960s, Martin and his Rat Pack cronies Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. had become the show-business avatars of a postwar America that swung and swaggered, the embodiment of the optimism of a country that felt poised to build Hiltons on the moon.

From Los Angeles Times