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By Richard A. Lertzman
“The Rat Pack? Hasn’t that topic been done to death?”
That is the question I was asked by some skeptical fellow writers when I mentioned I was working with author Lon Davis on Deconstructing the Rat Pack, our new book, published by Prestige Cinema Press.
It’s true: there have been a stack of books on the myth that surrounds Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. But the fact is, myths are what have most often been printed. It reminds me of the line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Lon and I subscribe to a different belief: print the facts. PR reports of the time will lead one to believe that the Rat Pack came about organically, that their...
By Richard A. Lertzman
“The Rat Pack? Hasn’t that topic been done to death?”
That is the question I was asked by some skeptical fellow writers when I mentioned I was working with author Lon Davis on Deconstructing the Rat Pack, our new book, published by Prestige Cinema Press.
It’s true: there have been a stack of books on the myth that surrounds Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. But the fact is, myths are what have most often been printed. It reminds me of the line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Lon and I subscribe to a different belief: print the facts. PR reports of the time will lead one to believe that the Rat Pack came about organically, that their...
- 12/16/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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