The podcast today featured authors Rick Lertzman & Lon Davis talk about their new Rat Pack book. The book in pre-sale is in the top 100 biographies!
NY Post legendary Columnist Cindy Adams features new Rat Pack book in column Monday 10/12; Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit.
(New York) The legendary columnist Cindy Adams “raves” about the new, outrageous, tell-all Rat Pack book from Prestige Press in her column today in her “feature box.”
With much kudos to our wonderful friend, the worldwide known author and columnist , tea and etiquette guru Ellen Easton
The book “Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit“ Is now on pre-order at Amazon in Book or Ebook. It will be in bookstores on December 2.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1098341619/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_y5fHFbJTZ4SJ7
From Closer Magazine:
Celebrating the Rat Pack’s Sixtieth Anniversary – New explosive book- “Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey , The Mob and The Summit “
Where were you in February 1960?
RAT PACK
A NEW BOOK REVEALS HOW THE GROUP CAME TOGETHER AND BECAME LEGENDARY
“We’re
just the
cocktail
of the
moment.”
—Dean Martin
You think you know the Rat Pack? Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford collectively have been called by that moniker.
“They were
friends through business.”
It was the screenplay for 1960’s
Ocean’s 11 that united the five. “They came up with a plan to, during the day, shoot the film in Las Vegas, and at night do a show,” Lertzman explains.
And while the mythology of the Rat Pack suggests that the boys were partying all night, it wasn’t exactly like that. “These guys were actually in their 40s, had kids and were hardly the swingers that they were portrayed as on-screen,” he says.
END OF AN ERA?
You might think that the party has been going on for 60 years, but it turns out that, like the Kennedys and Camelot, the group’s heyday only existed for a brief shining moment
“This whole Rat Pack era only really lasted a year,” says Richard Lertz- man, whose new book Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, the Mob, and the Summit, comes out Oct. 5. “They were at the height of the entertainment world,” he tells Closer, “but it only lasted through 1960.”
The idea for the group began as part of a marketing plan for the Sands Ho- tel in Las Vegas, of which Frank owned a small percentage, says Lertzman, add- ing that it was an attempt to “put Vegas on the map.” And while the entertainers all knew each other, “these guys did not hang out. They were friends, but they were
Business partners
Still, the few weeks in 1960 they spent filming and performing solidified a leg- end. For a moment in time, there was no bigger act than the Rat Pack. “In 1960, ev- erything clicked. It is an era onto itself,” Lertzman explains. “It still resonates with many people today who want to go back and live in that time of swingers”
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