When his handsome face and a achievement of luck brought Curtis to Hollywood in 1948, he was 23 years old and acquainted as if he was in heaven. That wasn't because of the acting opportunities. It was because of the women, and Tony was one of the town's best-known lotharios for decades. He admired acting, too, and fabricated abundant films and bad ones with the aforementioned faculty of fun. He was aswell a constant artist, whose paintings allowable appropriate fees, and a affair beastly until he got apple-pie and abstaining in 1982. One affair you will not apprehension in the obituaries is anyone with a bad chat to say about him. He was fun, and few had added fun than he did himself.
Curtis, built-in Bernard Schwartz in 1933 and aloft in abjection and in an orphanage, accomplished Navy assignment in World War Two, took acting acquaint in New York, and in 1948 was spotted by a aptitude abettor and active by Universal Pictures. He was one of the a lot of admirable men to anytime arise in the movies, and distinction came quickly. One day in 1985 at the Cannes Blur Festival, he told me of those days:
"Let me acquaint you a story, array of a parable. One day in 1948 I went to Hollywood. My name was Bernie Schwartz. I active a arrangement at Universal, and I bought a abode in the hills. It had a pond pool. Unheated, but it had baptize in it. One night I came home late, I jumped in the pool, I swam a few laps, I got out, I broiled myself off, I put on my clothes, and I absolved anon into this allowance and sat down and started to allocution to you. Do you see what I'm saying? Thirty-eight years, I don't apperceive area they went. Gone like that.”
He fabricated four pictures that can be absolutely be alleged great, and was acute to the success of all four: "Some Like It Hot," "Sweet Smell of Success," "Spartacus" and "The Defiant Ones," for which he accustomed an Oscar nomination. He fabricated conceivably 60 others, some of them huge successes, others best forgotten. He formed on all of them with abundant energy. In an beforehand chat at Cannes 1982, he abreast me he was aggravating to anticipate of a bigger appellation for his new movie. The accepted appellation was "Othello, the Black Commando."
"What do you anticipate about 'The Othello Conspiracy?'" he asked. "How about 'The Othello File?' 'The Othello Connection?'" It was an activity account based on the Shakespeare tragedy. "My name is Colonel Iagovich," he said. "Get it?"
This chat took abode in the apartment of the brief mogul Menahem Golan, whose Cannon Group would deliver the film. From the additional attic of the Carlton Hotel, he allowable a appearance of the sidewalk. Suddenly he jumped to his anxiety and apprenticed his adenoids adjoin the glass.
"Will ya attending at the body on that lady!" he shouted. He pushed the blind aside. "There -- the one with the albino hair and the leopard-skin leotard! See her?" I did not. "Standing in the average of the intersection, chewing the hell out of that guy? Jesus, I got abundant eyes!" he said.
Menahem was not impressed. "She's advancing this way!" Curtis reported. He confused to accession window. An overstuffed armchair was in his way. He hurdled the chair. He opened the French doors arch to the balustrade and shouted: ''Mon petit! Mon petit! Yoo hoo! Up here! Come up here, mon petit. Up here. Allowance 241! Two four one!"
The affair about Curtis was, actuality was a absolutely abundant star, a legend, who had a big admiration but not a big ego. How abounding added cine stars would cull up their shirt in a restaurant to appearance you their blister from affection surgery?
Once Wolfgang Puck afraid an exhibition of Curtis's paintings in his aboriginal Spago on Sunset. Puck and the administrator Billy Wilder, who directed "Some Like it Hot," were both from Vienna and admired talking with one another. One night, Puck told me, he had Billy, a acclaimed art collector, get up and audit some of the paintings.
"Billy looked at one," Puck said, "and all he said was, 'Lousy actor, awful painter.' Then he turns about and Tony was continuing appropriate there. He doesn't absence a beat. 'Oh, accost Tony,' he says. 'I knew all forth you were continuing appropriate there'."
Many humans admired his paintings. He wasn't a awful actor, but he generally suffered because of his material. He would antic about bad reviews, but one absolutely stung. It wasn't a review, really, but a allegory that grew acclaimed over the years. That was the adventure that in "The Black Shield of Falworth" his Brooklyn emphasis had him adage "Yonder lies dah alcazar of my faddah."
"I never said Yonder lies da alcazar of my faddah! he told me. "That band has become allotment of the folklore. You go to see the movie, accept for yourself. What I said was, bright as day, father. See, I was built-in Bernie Schwartz. I'm a Hungarian Jew from The Bronx. So they anticipation I had to accent it faddah, because it fit their stereotype. Lawrence Olivier was in the aforementioned picture, but cipher thinks he anytime mispronounced annihilation in his accomplished life.”
Actually, Lord Olivier alone co-starred with Curtis in "Spartacus," but I got the point.
Bernie Schwartz from The Bronx and Tony Curtis from Hollywood died Wednesday at his home abreast Las Vegas. He was 85. His sixth wife, the horse trainer Jill VandenBerg, was at her side. Together they accurate a ambush for alone horses in Nevada.
In accession to his wife, Mr. Curtis's survivors cover two daughters with Janet Leigh, his aboriginal wife: Kelly Lee Curtis and the extra Jamie Lee Curtis. Aswell Alexandra Curtis and Allegra Curtis, daughters with is wife Christine Kaufmann; and a son, Benjamin Curtis, with his wife Leslie Allen.
Curtis, built-in Bernard Schwartz in 1933 and aloft in abjection and in an orphanage, accomplished Navy assignment in World War Two, took acting acquaint in New York, and in 1948 was spotted by a aptitude abettor and active by Universal Pictures. He was one of the a lot of admirable men to anytime arise in the movies, and distinction came quickly. One day in 1985 at the Cannes Blur Festival, he told me of those days:
"Let me acquaint you a story, array of a parable. One day in 1948 I went to Hollywood. My name was Bernie Schwartz. I active a arrangement at Universal, and I bought a abode in the hills. It had a pond pool. Unheated, but it had baptize in it. One night I came home late, I jumped in the pool, I swam a few laps, I got out, I broiled myself off, I put on my clothes, and I absolved anon into this allowance and sat down and started to allocution to you. Do you see what I'm saying? Thirty-eight years, I don't apperceive area they went. Gone like that.”
He fabricated four pictures that can be absolutely be alleged great, and was acute to the success of all four: "Some Like It Hot," "Sweet Smell of Success," "Spartacus" and "The Defiant Ones," for which he accustomed an Oscar nomination. He fabricated conceivably 60 others, some of them huge successes, others best forgotten. He formed on all of them with abundant energy. In an beforehand chat at Cannes 1982, he abreast me he was aggravating to anticipate of a bigger appellation for his new movie. The accepted appellation was "Othello, the Black Commando."
"What do you anticipate about 'The Othello Conspiracy?'" he asked. "How about 'The Othello File?' 'The Othello Connection?'" It was an activity account based on the Shakespeare tragedy. "My name is Colonel Iagovich," he said. "Get it?"
This chat took abode in the apartment of the brief mogul Menahem Golan, whose Cannon Group would deliver the film. From the additional attic of the Carlton Hotel, he allowable a appearance of the sidewalk. Suddenly he jumped to his anxiety and apprenticed his adenoids adjoin the glass.
"Will ya attending at the body on that lady!" he shouted. He pushed the blind aside. "There -- the one with the albino hair and the leopard-skin leotard! See her?" I did not. "Standing in the average of the intersection, chewing the hell out of that guy? Jesus, I got abundant eyes!" he said.
Menahem was not impressed. "She's advancing this way!" Curtis reported. He confused to accession window. An overstuffed armchair was in his way. He hurdled the chair. He opened the French doors arch to the balustrade and shouted: ''Mon petit! Mon petit! Yoo hoo! Up here! Come up here, mon petit. Up here. Allowance 241! Two four one!"
The affair about Curtis was, actuality was a absolutely abundant star, a legend, who had a big admiration but not a big ego. How abounding added cine stars would cull up their shirt in a restaurant to appearance you their blister from affection surgery?
Once Wolfgang Puck afraid an exhibition of Curtis's paintings in his aboriginal Spago on Sunset. Puck and the administrator Billy Wilder, who directed "Some Like it Hot," were both from Vienna and admired talking with one another. One night, Puck told me, he had Billy, a acclaimed art collector, get up and audit some of the paintings.
"Billy looked at one," Puck said, "and all he said was, 'Lousy actor, awful painter.' Then he turns about and Tony was continuing appropriate there. He doesn't absence a beat. 'Oh, accost Tony,' he says. 'I knew all forth you were continuing appropriate there'."
Many humans admired his paintings. He wasn't a awful actor, but he generally suffered because of his material. He would antic about bad reviews, but one absolutely stung. It wasn't a review, really, but a allegory that grew acclaimed over the years. That was the adventure that in "The Black Shield of Falworth" his Brooklyn emphasis had him adage "Yonder lies dah alcazar of my faddah."
"I never said Yonder lies da alcazar of my faddah! he told me. "That band has become allotment of the folklore. You go to see the movie, accept for yourself. What I said was, bright as day, father. See, I was built-in Bernie Schwartz. I'm a Hungarian Jew from The Bronx. So they anticipation I had to accent it faddah, because it fit their stereotype. Lawrence Olivier was in the aforementioned picture, but cipher thinks he anytime mispronounced annihilation in his accomplished life.”
Actually, Lord Olivier alone co-starred with Curtis in "Spartacus," but I got the point.
Bernie Schwartz from The Bronx and Tony Curtis from Hollywood died Wednesday at his home abreast Las Vegas. He was 85. His sixth wife, the horse trainer Jill VandenBerg, was at her side. Together they accurate a ambush for alone horses in Nevada.
In accession to his wife, Mr. Curtis's survivors cover two daughters with Janet Leigh, his aboriginal wife: Kelly Lee Curtis and the extra Jamie Lee Curtis. Aswell Alexandra Curtis and Allegra Curtis, daughters with is wife Christine Kaufmann; and a son, Benjamin Curtis, with his wife Leslie Allen.
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