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Mike Weatherford: Hackett brings own Rat Pack to Sahara
Sandy Hackett says his late father, Buddy, once turned down a chance to be Frank Sinatra's opening act in Las Vegas.
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The legendary Buddy Hackett arrived in comedy heaven in 2003, but he's coming back to work at Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel - where he held court and entertained audiences for decades - when his son makes his debut in the Congo Room as Joey Bishop in "Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show," set to open just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
a oeLaugh-Ina poet and flower child Henry Gibson, who more recently...
"Laugh-In" poet and flower child Henry Gibson, who more recently appeared as Judge Clark Brown on "Boston Legal" and was the voice of newspaperman Bob Jenkins on "King of the Hill," died Monday of cancer, Variety reports.
Your earliest flickering memories?
If only I could remember, definitively, the first time I set foot inside a movie theater.
Your earliest flickering memories?
If only I could remember, definitively, the first time I set foot inside a movie theater.
Frank and the boys, swingin' again
Like a quartet of class clowns ranking on one another, the four classic postwar entertainers of "the Rat Pack'' strove to top each other's best lines as they sang, told jokes, and ad-libbed in their Las Vegas show.
In this Sept. 15, 1967, file photo, Regis Philbin, the helper and foil of 'The Joey Bishop Show,' goes over the upcoming routines with Joey Bishop, right, on the set of the ABC-TV studio in Hollywood.
Rick Polito is on vacation and will return next week. Meanwhile, here's a classic That TV Guy from this week in 1973! ==Bi FRIDAY, MAY 8== The Brady Bunch Mrs.
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