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Tony Curtis, American Prince

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Tony Curtis was the golden boy of the silver screen. He tells us what it was like to live through Hollywood’s heyday, why he said that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing Hitler, and lots more. His new memoir is American Prince.


Comments

  • [1] Amy from Manhattan October 28, 2008 - 12:11PM

    Considering Pat O'Conner's comments on historical English & American accents in her last appearance on this show, I wonder if Tony Curtis's famed delivery of the line "Yondah lies da castle of my faddah" (as a prince, I think) was more authentic than the people who put it down realize!


  • [2] rylee from nyc October 28, 2008 - 12:30PM

    I know who Tony Curtis is and have enjoyed his movies and personae which is "old hollywood" He is a chronicler of a bygone era. We should celebrate our past as well as our present. Where are the Tony Curtis's, Paul Newmans, Cary Grants of the present day? The current crop of "talent" is not substantial enough for me.


  • [3] norman lerner from Brooklyn October 29, 2008 - 03:02PM

    Great interview--

    I want to read the book,

    think of what Howard

    would have done with Tony


  • [4] norman lerner from Brooklyn October 29, 2008 - 03:12PM

    Tony gives out with the info on May West's daily

    enema routine and Lennie doesn't bat an

    eyebrow.....was he keeping a straight face

    for all of this.


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