Recently Dead

Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's ring-a-ding-ding Rat Pack, died last night from multiple causes at home in Newport Beach. He was 89. A deadpan comedian and actor, he starred in two sitcoms in the '60s and often subbed for Jack Paar and Johnny Carson on their late-night talk shows. He also served as master of ceremonies at John F Kennedy's presidential inaugural and that year joined Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and Peter Lawford at their historic Rat Pack "summit" meetings on stage at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Lawford died in 1984, Davis in 1990, Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998. (Newsday)

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