Bless you Tony Curtis

[Philosoraptor]

Tony has died at age 85. I always liked that guy.

[xchrom]

1. peace be with his family and friends. nt

[1776Forever]

2. Tony was a wonderful actor and man. Blessings to his family and friends.

Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85
By DAVE KEHR
Published: September 30, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html


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Tony Curtis with his wife Janet Leigh in 1961

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 a cardiac arrest in his Las Vegas area home. He was 85.

......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).....

In addition to his wife, Mr. Curtis is survived by Kelly Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, his two daughters with Janet Leigh; Alexandra Curtis and Allegra Curtis, his two daughters with Christine Kaufmann; and a son, Benjamin Curtis, with Leslie Allen. A second son with Ms. Allen, Nicholas Curtis, died in 1994 of a drug overdose.

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Tony you were an American Dream in more than one way!

[driver8]

3. Awww -- very sad. RIP, Tony Curtis. n/t

[joeybee12]

4. RIP Tony...I enjoyed many of your films...nt

[Faygo Kid]

5. Brought a lot of joy to our lives

A fine actor, but I will remember him best for "Some Like It Hot," "Operation Petticoat" and "The Great Race," as the Great Leslie.