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Why 'La Bande de Rats' Were in Las Vegas
Our recent review of Une Histoire Américain by Georges Ayache included this shot of the book's cover:
"OCEAN'S 11." That's the movie that the Rat Pack made in 1960, with Sinatra as war veteran Danny Ocean leading a band of 11 swindlers who rob five Vegas casinos one New Year's Eve. (It was remade, of course, in 2001 with George Clooney in the Sinatra role.)
We can't read the rest of the sign except for the word "Downtown," but it looks like it might list dates and times. So presumably this photo is from 1960 and the boys were in town to promote their new movie.
The back page of Une Histoire Américaine identifies the "photo de couverture" as being from mptvimages.com. A quick search there and sure enough: 1960 at the Ocean's 11 premiere.
Just a sidelight for Rat Pack scholars.
The extra contrast doesn't do much for Sinatra's look, though.
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Hey pallie, thanks so much for sharin' your research with us of this great pix....loves that our Dino is front and center with us ever present cigarette...just shows that he was the true leader of this band of Rats....never was, never will be anyone as cool as the King of Cool....oh, to return to the days when Dino walked the earth...