Deaths
Concerning the group's reputation for womanizing and heavy drinking, Joey Bishop stated in a 1998 interview: "I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy, or Peter drunk during performances. That was only a gag! And do you believe these guys had to chase broads? They had to chase 'em away! "
- Peter Lawford died on December 24, 1984, of cardiac arrest complicated by kidney and liver failure at the age of 61.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. died at the age of 64 on May 16, 1990, of complications from throat cancer.
- Dean Martin died at home on Christmas morning, December 25, 1995, aged 78.
- Frank Sinatra died on May 14, 1998, at the age of 82.
- Joey Bishop, the last surviving and longest-lived (89) Rat Pack member, died on October 17, 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)