The Phat Pack The Phat Pack The Phat Pack is the third studio album by the jazz ensemble Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Goodwin received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement for the song "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". The title is a parody of the Rat Pack, a group of friends and performers during the 1960s which included Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Goodwin arranged cover versions of two songs that were associated with the Rat Pack, "Too Close for Comfort" and "It Was a Very Good Year", and a hit from the 1970s, "Play That Funky Music". Soloists
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