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Article: 'The Rat Pack.'(TV movie reveals friendship between Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin)(Cover Story)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- August 24, 1998
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The wild and rowdy times of Sammy Davis Jr. and his close friends Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin have been brought to the small screen in the HBO movie The Rat Pack.
The film chronicles the close friendship of that trio, along with Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, as they dominated the entertainment headlines in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They drank, gambled, partied and somehow managed to put on crowd-pleasing shows on the Las Vegas strip during that time.
The movie goes beyond just the partying times of the group in Palm Springs and Vegas. It also shows how violence, sex, racism and mob influence affected how the group related to one another and ...