Tony has passed away, the BBC story here. He was in ALOT of things, including being an influence on how Elvis wanted to look. He played a pre-historic version of himself on the Flintstones as Stoney Curtis, and of course CoStarred with Marilyn. I particuarly liked him in Operation Petticoat, playing a snooty supply chief aboard a wartime sub.
He will be missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FYGmMzwJRA"]YouTube - Hilarious Pepsi Advertisement (Spartacus Version) Hotwater
What a great actor and good lookin' man.....hell, even Elvis dyed his hair to look like Tony Curtis! We'll miss ya, Stoney! :sad: http://www.************/profile/pic.php?oid=AAAAAwAgACAAAAAPbSRnLTOeCCfug5wKFB9sbMsFO6fgG6R9KSIEh2Bmrsdo_SIFxc5GscTzMJh9KC8BbKzJmmpW2j4z6kER1VXcm5a1rIK8E8pHzGhfbHZXKYalkX3Q6DQlxCKke94F3G1H&size=normal
arrgh, i didn't see this thread and started one myself - i hate when i'm an instigator of thread redundancy!!! must have been the tears clouding my eyes - here's to you, Tony! :cheers2: (Easy Enuf to Merge at this Point) Shale
I’m not sure when or where Tony Curtis(1925-2010) first came into my life. Was it at the movies or on television? Perhaps it was in Houdini in 1953 when he was married to Janet Leigh. I was only nine at the time and in grade four. My mother had just joined the Baha’i Faith in Ontario. I was in love with baseball and Susan Gregory—little did she know. Perhaps I first saw him in Some Like It Hot in 1959. I had a job at the Roxy Theatre at the time as a marquee, the man who set the signboards up for the shows that arrived in town. I won the most valuable player in the midget baseball league that year in the little town of Burlington. As Bobby Darren’s song Mack-the-Knife was making its way to the top of the charts in October ‘59 I joined the Baha’i Faith. I was always impressed with my mother back then, but that would not always be the case. Tony became famous and rich but, on reading about his life today, I realized he paid for his fame and wealth with his many marriages, his alcoholism, his addictions, the suicide of his son, indeed, a long list of tests and difficulties. I’ve had my problems, too; it is difficult to compare lives but, in some ways, it can’t be helped. Tony died this week and I learned more about him today than I knew in all his years of great popularity in the 1950s and 1960s when I was growing-up and coming to maturity at the age of 20 and 21 in 1964/5 when he starred in Sex and the Single Girl(1964) and The Great Race(1965).-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 2 September 2010. I can understand why you got into art, Tony, in the last 25 years of your life..age 60-85… You were a handsome, dude, and kissed that icon of beauty, Marilyn Monroe….Yes, you got around, Tony, I must say…We did have things in common: COPD1, our mothers had mental illness; we went to college & we went under contract at age 23 you with Universal Pictures and me with DIAND2…..interested in girls and money….worried about being a failure. But so many differences, eh Tony? You made your debut in 1949 when I was 5. To my two marriages you had five and those younger women you married who gave you so much more sex or so you said, Tony…. I wish you well in that Undiscovered Country, Tony, that Land of Lights or so I am told!!! What is life like now beyond the mortal coil? 1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease usually from smoking 2 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Ron Price 2 October 2010
