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« Reply #241 on: September 30, 2010, 07:48:33 AM » |
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What a sad news ... I liked this film very much as a child, "Trapeze", often shown on TV at Christmas time ...  And The Persuaders, every Saturday afternoon, like a "must" ... Last time I watched a film with him - it was at least the tenth time - it was last year, in "The Vikings"  RIP Monsieur Curtis.
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« Reply #242 on: September 30, 2010, 11:20:47 AM » |
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Here's a link to the New York Times obituary of Curtis, again by Dave Kehr: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html?_r=1&hpIt's a interesting read, as Times obituaries usually are. Here's the beginning: Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer’s 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones,” but whose public preferred him in comic roles in films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and “The Great Race” (1965), died Wednesday of cardiac arrest in his Las Vegas area home. He was 85.
His death was confirmed by the Clark County coroner, The Associated Press reported.
As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a sculptural style later imitated by Elvis Presley, and plucked eyebrows framing pale blue eyes and wide, full lips, Mr. Curtis embodied a new kind of feminized male beauty that came into vogue in the early 1950s. A vigorous heterosexual in his widely publicized (not least by himself) private life, he was often cast in roles that drew on a perceived ambiguity: his full-drag impersonation of a female jazz musician in “Some Like It Hot”; a slave who attracts the interest of a Roman senator (Laurence Olivier) in Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” (1960); a man attracted to a mysterious blond (Debbie Reynolds) who turns out to be the reincarnation of his male best friend in Vincente Minnelli’s “Goodbye Charlie” (1964).
But behind the pretty-boy looks could be found a dramatically potent combination of naked ambition and deep vulnerability, both likely products of his Dickensian childhood in the Bronx. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, to Helen and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Emanuel operated a tailor shop in a poor neighborhood, and the family occupied cramped quarters behind the store, the parents in one room and little Bernard sharing another with his two brothers, Julius and Robert. Helen Schwartz suffered from schizophrenia and frequently beat the three boys. (Robert was later found to have the same disease.) R.I.P.
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« Reply #247 on: October 04, 2010, 11:04:28 AM » |
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« Reply #251 on: October 05, 2010, 06:45:00 AM » |
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I'm sad to hear about the passing today of Sir Norman Wisdom.  He was a fantastic slapstick comedian.. I enjoyed watching his films on TV when I was younger, I loved 'Trouble in Store', the film in which he sang Don't Laugh At Me ('cause I'm A Fool)" Gant, I'm glad you got to see him live and I also feel the same way as you, a little piece of my childhood has now gone. R.I.P. Sir Norman.
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Dame Joan Sutherland has died aged 83. She was born in Sydney Australia and sang all over the world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11517053I saw her singing in The Merry Widow in the Sydney Opera House about 35 years ago. She was fantastic in the role and brought real humour to the part.
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« Reply #258 on: October 17, 2010, 06:11:53 AM » |
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I remember him in the tv series Manimal too. Handsome actor. Rest in Peace, Simon 
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