The second installment of Robert J. Randisi’s Rat Pack Mystery series is due to be released on December 10th. Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die: A Rat Pack Mystery (Rat Pack Mysteries) is the followup to the highly regarded first installment published last year, Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (Rat Pack Mysteries). This one sounds as […]
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It seems ironic and, in some ways, fitting that on the day the last surviving member of the Rat Pack dies that Atlantic City’s famed Sands Hotel and Casino will be demolished. While the Atlantic City Sands Hotel doesn’t have nearly the pedigree of its Las Vegas counterpart, the facility maintained a strong association with […]
Ocean’s 13, a sequel of a sequel of a remake of the Rat Pack classic, Ocean’s 11, is about to hit theaters and Time Magazine weighs in with their thoughts on the film. While the first remake was fine, I’ll stick to the original Ocean’s 11, with classic Vegas scenery, including sequences shot inside some […]
NBC Philadelphia has a brief article today on the auction of the contents of Frank Sinatra’s old stomping ground in Atlantic City. Included in the article is a slide show containing photos of some of what’s up for grabs.
If you ever wanted to buy a piece of casino history, now might be your chance. Today’s Press of Atlantic City has an article that talks about one heck of a garage sale: the entire contents of the former Sands Hotel and Casino are being sold. Everything including the proverbial kitchen sink and the curtain […]
Yesterday’s Boston Herald reviewed the new Rat Pack mystery novel, Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (Rat Pack Mysteries) Pardon the pun, but this seems a novel way of writing about the Rat Pack.
Today’s Press of Atlantic City has an article about the closing of The Sands Hotel and Casino in NJ. It seems that one by one all the reminders of Sinatra, no matter how small, are passing into history. The Sands was the home of Sinatra’s final public gigs in the US in 1994.
Today was release day for “Sinatra: Vegas” and what a day - the new boxed set immediately landed at #34 on Amazon Music’s top seller list. Not bad for a singer who passed away 8 years ago and whose best recordings were considered to have been made over 40 years ago!
Several publications had reviews of […]
Not including my review of the new Vegas boxed set, over the past month I’ve written several posts about Sinatra’s history in Las Vegas, including some nice samples of memorabilia. To see them, just visit our Sands Hotel category and click on the titles to the individual posts you want to see.
