Rat Pack Rat Pack The Rat Pack is a term used by the media to refer to an informal group of entertainers centered on the Las Vegas casino scene. Having its origins in a group of friends that met at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, by the 1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group that called itself "the Summit" or "the Clan", featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among others; they appeared together on stage
Frat Pack DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Edward Norton who have done dramatic roles together. By 2005, "Entertainment Weekly" had dropped the "Slacker Pack" term and followed suit, referring to the aforementioned crop of actors as the "Frat Pack". The name is an allusion to the Rat Pack (and the later Brat Pack), combined with a reference to the group's popular fraternity-related film, "Old School," and the sophomoric style of humor employed in many of their films. Ben Stiller has decried the use of the term, saying, "I think the whole thing about the Frat Pack group is completely