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The Rat Pack: Boys Keep Swinging

Dorian Lynskey, Q, February 2002

They were a gang of hard-drinking, soft-crooning, middle-aged smart alecs, and they were the walking, talking, wise-cracking definition of cool. Now, half a century later, the "Rat Pack" have cast their spell on Robbie Williams and Hollywood. Dorian Lynskey investigates.

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