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:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)