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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 30, 2010 2:15:59 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on Sept 30, 2010 16:36:11 GMT -8
Reposting from my LJ:
Tony Curtis was a handsome man - cartoonishly so, quite literally, to the point that his likeness translated almost perfectly into the character of "Stony Curtis" on The Flintstones - who nonetheless always had a bit of a goofball sensibility to him.
He was Jamie Lee Curtis' dad, and his marriage to her mom, Janet Leigh, was but one of six marriages that, until the last one, just never seemed to work out. To be fair, he couldn't really rely on the upbringing he received from his own abusive family for any sort of clues on how to make things work when he was the dad and husband of the household.
It's interesting that Tony Curtis, the future movie star - still Bernard Schwartz back then - was himself moved to enlist in the Navy during World War II because of movie stars like Cary Grant and Tyrone Power, whose respective turns in Destination Tokyo and Crash Dive he found inspiring. The child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, his later years included efforts to preserve and restore synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Hungary.
Even in his potbellied, toupee-wearing, occasionally strange later years - notably his turn in 1997's The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man, playing a sort of Adam West-style Batman figure coping with life decades after his show has ended - I always had a soft spot for the guy.
Fuck it; I'm gonna miss him.
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