Post #45783 by AquaZombie on Sat, Aug 2, 2003 5:37 PM

The live portion of my cult movie show THRILLVILLE (www.thrillville.net) is a tribute to both the Rat Pack AND tiki (amongst other things), so there's a connection for ya. I "worship" the Holy Trinity of Frank, Dino and Sammy (my wife Monica, "The Tiki Goddess" hails Elvis as her King), and of course I also "worship" tiki. Shag once sent me a jpeg of a painting he did of the Summit, "Dial H For Hipster," it's on my web site on the Contact page (I don't know how to post it here, sorry - if someone else does, grab it off my site and please do so, it's too cool and totally suits the topic.)

We stayed in "The Rat Pack Room" at the Orbit In in Palm Springs for my 40th B-day a few months ago (www.orbitin.com, I think, it's on my links page anyway) - and my Rat Pack impersonator pally Robert Ensler (www.deanmartin.com) "roasted" me along with a bunch of other "pallies" at a swanky restaurant called the Atlas. Robert also married Monica and me at our Rat Pack themed wedding at Frank's Cal Neva Lodge in N. Taho a couple of years ago - as "Reverend Dino." Mariachis played Sinatra and Elvis tunes and "Ocean's 11" played in the background in the reception in the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Showroom. Tables and all the drinks at the open martini bar were named after the Rat Pack and associates (the Dean Martini, Sinatra-tini, Elvistini, Ann-Margetini, Marilyn Martini, ec).

The only time I ever (accidentally) got worldwide recognition for anything was when I launched a boycott of the egregious remake of "Ocean's 11: and actually pickted a movie theater! I did it as a lark (though I sincerely hated the remake) and thought only people who read my web site would know or give a damn about my opinion, but it started a media firestorm (we even starred in a French documentary on Vegas!) and I get hate mail to this very day? Why, I don't know.

So yea. You could say I dig the Rat Pack. Email me if you want know more stuff. Cheers.