Dean adjusts his cufflinks backstage before a performance in Vegas, 1958.

Hey pallies, likes one woulda thinks that after all these years there woulda likes not be any Dino-treasure yet to be uncovered, but likes the web continues to have on-goin' revelations of cool newly discovered Dino-tiques.

Case in point, pallies: LIFE.com, in honor of the 50th anniversary of "Ocean's 11" released 25 Never-Seen Photos of the Rat Pack. If you clicks on the tagg of this Dino-gram, you will find yourself at the LIFE.com pad where you will be likes able to revel in before un-seen Dino-pixs as well as others in the pack.

I have chosen to share my fav of the Dino-lot below. Our Dino with his ever-present cigarette adjustin' his cufflinks before goin' on stage. Photoed by Mr. Allan Grant of LIFE mag, the pix was shot in 1958 'Vegas baby 'Vegas! And, likes pallies, loves the patter the LIFE folks have chosen to adds Dino-color to the pix.

Am plannin' on sharin' more of these new Dino-discoveries soon, but likes goes on over to LIFE.com to partake of some glorious rediscovered Dino-photos. Dino-delightedly, DMP




"He wears the mask of an armchair philanderer with bottles and broads on his mind and seven kids in his swimming pool — a character with obvious appeal for both sexes. Highball glass in hand, he always looks faintly surprised to find the camera upon him, and his first bleary, self-deprecating crack establishes that neither he nor his audience can be quite sure what he will do next." —From LIFE's review of The Dean Martin Show, 5/26/1967. Pictured: Photographed by LIFE's Allan Grant, Dean adjusts his cufflinks backstage before a performance in Vegas, 1958.