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>"Joey Bishop, 'Rat Pack' Comic, Dies"
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>Ring-a-ding-ding, and that's the end of that tune.
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>Dino
Den Mother Lauren Bacall and a few mascots like Shirley Maclaine and Angie Dickinson are still kicking.
Bacall is the best of Den Mothers, reportedly very proud to have said "fucking" on television last year:
>Even by the Olympian standards of The Sopranos, some episodes are
>genuine classics in their own right, and this was one of them, made
>especially memorable by cameos from Sir Ben Kingsley and Lauren
>Bacall, playing themselves.
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>Kingsley was the man Christopher and his associate "Little" Carmine
>Lupertazzi wanted for the lead in their movie, to which end they
>or-ganised, in gangster speak, a "sit-down". "No one plays a tough,
>ruthless, hardheaded prick like you do," Christopher told "Sir
>Kingsley", who knows a compliment when he gets hit over the head
>with one, and smiled graciously. They then tagged along with him to
>the so-called luxury lounge, where Christopher watched open- mouthed
>as expensive freebies were pressed upon him. Kingsley then told him
>that movie stars who present awards at Oscar-type ceremonies get
>goodie bags worth upwards of $30,000, and a little later we saw
>Bacall leaving just such a ceremony, clutching her bag, which was
>promptly ripped from her determined grasp by a masked man who
>punched her in the face and pushed her to the ground. "Jesus, my
>fucking arm!" she spat, a game old bird playing a game old bird to perfection.
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