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| Hollywood icon Tony Curtis pegs out |
| 2010-09-30 |
| [Al Jazeera] Tony Curtis, whose good looks made him a Hollywood star well before he became an accomplished actor in movies such as "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "Some Like It Hot," died on Wednesday evening in his home near Las Vegas. Curtis, 85, was one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and one of Hollywood's busiest playboys during that time. He had a memorable role in the classic gladiator movie "Spartacus" in 1960 and received an Academy Award nomination for 1958's "The Defiant Ones." His first starring role was in "The Prince Who Was a Thief" in 1951, and critics were appalled as Curtis, playing an Arabian prince, proclaimed in a thick New York accent, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder!" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder!" LOL - Might rent the movie just for that line... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-09-30 17:21 |
| #1 From Wikipedia: During World War II, Curtis joined the United States Navy inspired by watching Cary Grant in Destination Tokyo and Tyrone Power in Crash Dive (1943).[3] He served aboard USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine tender, and on September 2, 1945, he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from about a mile away. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2010-09-30 16:14 |