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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100930/ten-uk-curtis-90f61ed.html Another great actor with a personality much like the character's he played (probably not a good thing, but hey that's old Hollywood for ya). | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Very sad news. I've always been inordinately fond of Tony Curtis ever since enjoying the daftness of 'The Persuaders' as a young child. I'd select; 'The Sweet Smell Of Success', 'Some Like It Hot, 'Spartacus' & 'The Boston Strangler' as his finest movies. And it was his voice on the phone in 'Rosemary's Baby'... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.129.3 |
I'll remember him most for this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjmC57zLPgw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I was never a fan, but he was in a handful of great films. RIP. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Alas! I liked The Vikings too, and he had a small role in Anthony Mann's very fine Winchester 73. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I've actually never seen 'The Vikings'! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
The Vikings was a childhood favourite of mine - I'm sure it was on TV every week back then... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Did they have new fangled gadgets like TV when you were young Zed? Or was it a flip book of B&W photos and get your mum and dad to shout the lines while you flip the pages? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
It would be a great one for the big screen, by the look of things. Here's hoping they'll show a season of his films in my local arthouse - would be great to see 'Spartacus' in its full glory as well. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Has anyone here ever seen 'The Manitou' (1978)? I remember being haunted by the trailer, seen on TV as a kid, at the time. Other TV trailers I remember similarly whetting my appetite at that period were for 'The Sentinel', 'Squirm' and one about a woman who turns into a shark, or something... all very vague in my memory but these snippets had a powerful effect on my imagination at the time. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
"Yonder lays the cassell of my fadda" They don't make em like that anymore. The last time I saw him was on the Tarentino two-part CSI story. Cheers Terry | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It was Tony Curtis as Gil in Glengarry Glen Ross wan't it? or am I getting confuddled? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Jack Lemmon.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Stevie - 'The Manitou' is shit. I rewatched it recently for review (on the Videovista website, if ou can find it) and it's utter swill. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.9.26 |
I recently saw THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, and it was quite good, but extremely dated - in tone, mostly, and style - some movies just don't have a long shelf life, I guess. R.I.P. Tony.... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Nonsense, man.  | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.160.64.136 |
I second 'The Vikings'. I remember this on TV one Friday night 1977/78. I think I cried watching the Viking burial scene at the end with that great choral chant playing. I can hear it now in my head. |