With Frank Sinatra’s death in 1998, Joey Bishop became the last remaining member. The rest of the pack have undoubtedly gone to "The Big Casino" leaving all of us to wonder, when the clouds are the very shade of cigar smoke, if that’s the pack, indulging in their favorite stogies and talking about old times.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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Article comments
1 - EJS
Your two versions of the origin of the term "Rat Pack" are really the same. Bogart and Bacall lived in Holmby Hills (on S. Mapleton Drive). The "Pack" would gather at their house, and for this reason Bacall took to calling them the "Holmby Hills Rat Pack", which later became "Rat Pack". As far as I know, Judy Garland did not live in Holmby Hills.
2 - Heloise
Nice article. But since you also focus on cigars here is some trivia: JFK order like 2,000 of Cuba's best cigars before he closed down the trade between the two countries--still in effect today.
Jack has famous photos with a cigar dangling from his mouth in many, many photos. I wonder who influenced whom in terms of smoking them. In a former life he rolled his own.
Thanks.
Heloise