Tony Curtis has died

[Lady Cop]

i don't know any details, it's a just-breaking story.
wow. i loved him long ago. he was so cute.
christ he was 85??
he was also "the Boston Strangler"

[Duchess]

Isn't that Jamie Lee's Dad? I know I could go look that up for myself, I'm lazy.

[Lady Cop]

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - “Entertainment Tonight” is reporting the death of Oscar-nominated actor Tony Curtis at the age of 85.

The show says a representative of his daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, confirmed the death.

Tony Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, was nominated for an Oscar for his dramatic role in “The Defiant Ones” with Sidney Poitier.

But he’s also known for his comedic acting in the 1959 movie “Some Like It Hot” with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. Lemmon and Curtis are musicians who see a mob hit and disguise themselves as women to elude the gangsters who want to rub out any witnesses.

Curtis is also known for his role in “Spartacus” with Kirk Douglas.

holy shit. he was a hunk.

[Lady Cop]

i can't stand jamie lee curtis flogging her fucking yogurt for making your bowels move. blech. she's pathetic.

[Duchess]

Ooohhhh gawd. Moving bowels, bowels moving. Not good. I don't want to know, I don't even like that word. *ick* It ranks right up there with breastfeeding, it should be hidden. *see me shudder*

[Duchess]

It doesn't take much for me to become distracted & go off topic.

[Lady Cop]

the last resort for has-beens. all she ever did in the movies was scream. it's too fucking bad that thing in HALLOWEEN didn't get her.

[Lady Cop]

Tony Curtis, one the beefcake screen stars of the 1950s who went on working for the next four decades, has died, his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, told Entertainment Tonight. No further details were given.

He was 85 and had been admitted to a Las Vegas hospital for tests in mid-July after he had trouble breathing.

Curtis, who also suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, nearly died when he contracted pneumonia in December 2006 and remained in a coma for several days.

'Good-Looking Kid'
Unlike another pretty face of his generation, Marlon Brando, who at least took his early screen roles seriously, Tony Curtis wasn't entirely about the performance. "I was a good-looking kid," he admitted to PEOPLE in 2008. "That's the only reason I got into the movies."

In all, there were more than 150 movies, which took place along with an equally extravagant Hollywood high life: six wives, romances with starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Natalie Wood and six kids he candidly admitted he often failed – including Jamie Lee Curtis. Nor did he make a secret of his real name – Bernie Schwartz – or his onetime drug use, or his trips to the shrink to deal with debilitating depression.

Tragic Childhood
Born in Manhattan's tough Hell's Kitchen, Curtis grew up in the Bronx, the son of a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant tailor. Tragedy as well as poverty stalked the family. Older brother Julius was killed at 12 by a truck. Younger brother Robert was institutionalized as a schizophrenic. A high school dropout after one year, Curtis served a WWII Navy hitch, including two years aboard a submarine – experience he leaned on for one of his favorite movies, opposite his childhood hero Cary Grant, in 1959's Operation Petticoat.

Studying acting in New York on the GI Bill, Curtis (still as Schwartz) attracted the attention of a Universal Studios talent scout and landed a $50-a-week contract (and the new name) in Hollywood. Soon posing shirtless for fan magazines and adorning costume epics like 1951's The Prince Who Was a Thief, Curtis also showed off his pronounced Bronx accent. Still, he never quite uttered the famous line most quoted by nightclub mimics: "Yonda lies da castle of da caliph, my fodder."

The late '50s brought meaty roles and memorable movies: 1957's Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster, 1958's The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier, and the comedy rated No. 1 funniest by the American Film Institute: Billy Wilder's 1959 Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon – with the two leading men playing 1920s musicians on the lam. In drag.

In 2002, Curtis said of his get-up for that romp, "Panties are easy, I find. Garter belts are not disruptive, I don't think. The shoulder pads in dresses can be a little obnoxious … but by and large, I would say the brassiere [is the worst]."

Uneasy Marriages
His first marriage, in 1951, to frequent costar Janet Leigh, was widely covered by the press as a favorite Hollywood couple. It was also bitter, even more so after they divorced after 12 years. The union produced two actress daughters – Kelly, now 54, and Jamie Lee, 51 – though Curtis was to blame Janet (who died in 2004) for his long estrangement from Jamie.

"She had heard that I was arrogant, uninterested, a rake, a womanizer, a drunk and a dope-taker," he told PEOPLE in 1980. For her part, Leigh denied the charge. "I never knocked Tony to Jamie," she said. As for Jamie, she said 30 years ago that she had achieved a fragile reconciliation with Tony Curtis. "I understand him better now," she said, "perhaps not as a father but as a man."

"Marriage is difficult," opined the experienced Curtis. "Very few of us are fortunate enough to marry multimillionaire girls who have 39-inch busts and have undergone frontal lobotomies." As for his reputation as a lady-killer, Tony humbly admitted it was deserved: "I've left my mark on thousands of girls across the country."

To say nothing of millions of movie fans around the world.

[Lady Cop]

"The Boston Strangler" haunted me, he was pretty good in that role as desalvo.

[QueenBee]

About 15 years ago, I won a trip to California to see the American Comedy Awards. Jamie Lee was up for one (she won). Anyway I had a couple of interactions..one was in the ladies bathroom. She was in there, and seemed to not be able to figure out the faucet to wash her hands. I had to show her. Thing is...I did not even recognise her, and the person I was with asked me "did you know who that was".

Then out in the auditorium, I ran into her dad. So I went over to say hello..he shook my hand and said "Nice to meet you".

[Maggot]

Tony Curtis was known for having a big shlong and drove many of the Hollywood women deep,deep into the bedsprings. He was in a few semi-porn movies also. What a life.

[Duchess]

I know who he is but, I'm not familiar with his work, I associate him more with being Jamie Lee's dad & not as an actor.

[Maggot]

I know who he is but, I'm not familiar with his work, I associate him more with being Jamie Lee's dad & not as an actor.

Remember the "Nanny" from nanny and the profesor? Well .........he fucked her and I have seen the pictures. Julia something.
He wrote a book back in 89 with all his conquestes<------spelled wrong, bad maggot...........bad! I should find that book. eh?