RIP Tony Curtis

Farewell, you great big Leslie you....

 

ding! ding! ding! can't confirm that's true but that is the explanation i remember reading...

 

i can't believe greg giraldo is getting more kudos on here than tony curtis. guess it's a generational thing.

 

I immediately thought of Tony Curtis the other day when Eddie Fisher died. I guess it was the actress daughter, well-known ex-wife thing.

I'll always remember him in "Some Like It Hot," one of the great comedies of all time.

RIP, Tony.

 

Don't doubt for a minute the story is true, but . . . what's the hurry?

 

Actually, it was called "The Persuaders."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persuaders!

 

Yonda lies da castle of my fodda.

RIP

 

Yes, my bad. It was a good show.

 

I didn't say it was unheard of, just not as common.

And I was actually thinking of Leigh McCloskey, aka Lucy Ewing's husband on "Dallas."

 

I had the opportunity to see him in a stage performance of Some Like It Hot half a dozen years ago. Of course, he didn't play his original role. Instead he played Osgood, the deliverer of the eternal, "Well, nobody's perfect." It wasn't Curtis at his finest, of course. By that time he was nearly 80, his timing was off and his energy sapped. But still, there was Tony Curtis, one of the most iconic actors of a long-past film era. It seemed wrong for him to be on stage while strangers delivered lines I remembered him saying, but it was still something of a thrill. It was kind of like seeing Robert Goulet in Las Vegas when I was younger. It seemed insincere for him to sing "Camelot" at 75 years old, but was still better than not seeing him sing it at all.

Especially loved Curtis in a made-for-TV movie that used to be on every Christmas in the '90s: "Christmas in Connecticut." It also starred Dyan Cannon and Kris Kristofferson. Curtis was simply hilarious in it. Worth checking it out. Used copies on Amazon start at $6.34. I've decorated my Christmas tree to that movie every year since 1992.

http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Connecticut-1992-TV-Movie/dp/B0002KQNLI/ref=sr_1_2?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285885083&sr=8-2

 

He was awesomely self unaware in the incredibly crappy TV show Hollywood Babylon which featured very craptacular re-enactments of Hollywood scandals.