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It has the glamorous wham of a championship prizefight. (A two-volume compact disc exists of the Rat Pack performing at the Villa Venice club in Chicago in 1962-a gig they were strong-armed into doing by the mobster Sam Giancana.) The Rat Pack kine-scope, found in a closet at the Dismas House, is more than a historical curio. The edited 90-minute version of the benefit-featuring Frank, Dino, Sammy, and Johnny-represents the only known full-length video of the Rat Pack in performance.
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A recently discovered kinescope of this bash-under the new title, The Rat Pack Captured-will be screened this month at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York and at the Los Angeles branch, and will also be broadcast later this year on “Nick at Nite”’s cable channel. Joey Bishop was listed on the original program, but had to bow out when he “slipped a disk backing out of Frank’s presence,” according to Carson, his replacement, who was only three years into his tenure as host of The Tonight Show. Sinatra said, “Be there,” and they were there-Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Trini Lopez, Kaye Stevens, and an amalgamation of two different bands, including members of the Count Basie Orchestra, conducted by a lean cat named Quincy Jones. The year is 1965 the event, billed as a “Frank Sinatra Spectacular” and broadcast on closed circuit to theaters across the country, is a benefit for Father Dismas Clark’s Half-Way House for excons. ” With these words of mock homage, an astonishingly young and lanky Johnny Carson introduces Frank Sinatra to the stage of the Kiel Opera House in St.