Night takes Bishop

The Rat Pack is finally no more. Bogart passed away 1957, Lawford in '84, Sammy in '90, Dino in '95, and the Chairman in '98 (not to mention the Sands Hotel in '96). Now Joey Bishop has gone to the Summit in the Sky, where presumably he is many, many rounds behind. Interesting that Rat Pack “mascots” Shirley MacLaine and Angie Dickinson are still with us, as is the “Den Mother” who first described this gang as a pack of rats.

That leaves only one of the (original) Ocean's Eleven still alive — and of course it would be the meanest-looking bastard of the bunch.

This week's big loss, though is the great and gorgeous Deborah Kerr, who famously rolled in the surf with Lancaster and somehow even made a leading man out of Yul Brynner. This close to Halloween, it's only fitting that we remember her first and foremost for her scare-selling performance in one of the all-time great ghost stories, The Innocents: