The self-styled "mouse" of the Rat Pack, comedian Joey Bishop became that august group's last surviving member with the death of Frank Sinatra in 1998. Bishop began in burlesque, rising quickly to "top banana", but got his first big break when he met Sinatra in 1952 and joined the singer for a series of club gigs at the Copacabana. The two remained friends for life, appearing with fellow Rat Packers Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr in the features "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Sergeant's 3" (1962), as well as their Las Vegas shows. Bishop, whom Sinatra called the 'Speaker of the
