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From '50s teen idol to '60s folk singer, Bobby Darin never stopped packing a handful of startling singing careers into 15 short, debauched years.

Not bad for a balding, illegitimate bongo player who wasn't meant to live beyond the age of 16.

Bobby Darin had presence with an assurance beyond his years, he took the stage with Rat Pack cool, "like an old, old pro pushed in a 24-year-old body," as '60s DJ Barry Grey put it.

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Smooth, shark-suited. "I've been on stage like a guy who's been on 30 years," said Darin. "Humility? Humbleness? The biggest thing between you and I is God. That's the only source of my humility." With the music of Sinatra, the moves of Sammy Davis Jr.

and the ego of a man on a mission, Darin wasn't going to let anything stop him.

It's this Darin we see in Kevin Spacey's recent biopic Beyond the Sea:  The full-on razzmatazz tornado single-handedly taking on Vegas and redefining the meaning of showbiz energy - moxie, verve