http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/arts/18cnd-bishop.html?hp
October 19, 2007
Joey Bishop, ‘Rat Pack’ Comic, Dies
By RICHARD SEVERO
<http://movies.nytimes.com/person/6334/Joey-Bishop?inline=nyt-per>Joey Bishop, the long-faced comedian and the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/frank_sinatra/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Frank Sinatra’s celebrated retinue of the 1960’s, died Wednesday night at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 89.
His death was of multiple causes, said his longtime publicist, Warren Cowan.
Mr. Bishop was the least flamboyant of the Rat Pack and no match for the others <http://movies.nytimes.com/person/40880/Peter-Lawford?inline=nyt-per>Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., <http://movies.nytimes.com/person/121802/Dean-Martin?inline=nyt-per>Dean Martin and Sinatra himself in their dedication to hell-raising.
But he shared in their phenomenal success in the early 1960s, when they headlined music and comedy shows in Las Vegas, appearing at the Sands, and made movies like “Ocean’s 11” and “Sergeants 3.” When <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/john_fitzgerald_kennedy/index.html?inline=nyt-per>John F. Kennedy, a friend of Sinatra’s and a brother-in-law of Lawford’s, was elected president in 1960, Mr. Bishop was master of ceremonies at the inaugural ball.
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