Rat Pack Rat Rat Pack Rat Rat Pack Rat is a 2014 drama short film, written and directed by Todd Rohal. The film had its premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. It won the "Jury Award" at the festival. The film later screened at "2014 SXSW Film Festival" on March 8, 2014. It also marks the final motion picture performance of Eddie Rouse, who died on December 7, 2014 of liver failure. A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, was hired by a Rat Pack fan's mother to perform on his birthday. "Rat Pack Rat" received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands a poem by Swinburne, “Dolores”, published in 1866. Ricks describes Swinburne’s poem as an “anti-prayer to his anti-madonna, an interrogation that hears no need why it should ever end”. Ricks writes that “Dolores moves…’To a tune that enthralls and entices’, as does ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’.” Ricks makes the point that “Dolores” “insists upon listing… all of her energies, her incitements and excitements, her accoutrements, her weapons” as does “Sad Eyed Lady”. Ricks describes the way in which Dylan’s song attributes so many objects and qualities to the Sad Eyed Lady as “part inventory, part arsenal, these returns