dorinda

klia passed along the news that TCM is starting its memorial tribute of Tony Curtis movies early tomorrow morning (Sunday 5am US central time), beginning with Beachhead. I also wanted to mention that during prime evening viewing hours is a run of three EXCELLENT movies in a row, with a very high slash quotient indeed:

7pm (central): Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a dark, sharp, faaaantastic movie with Burt Lancaster as a twisted and powerful gossip columnist and Tony Curtis as a sleazily-ambitious press agent. Curtis specifically wanted to play against his nice-guy type, and he definitely does that here in stellar form.

8:45pm (central): The Defiant Ones (1958), with Sidney Poitier and Curtis as mutually-loathing convicts shackled together and on the run from a chain gang. Hatred turns to understanding turns to... well, watch it and see. And ohhhh, Sidney Poitier is absolutely luminous.

10:30 (central): Trapeze (1956), with Curtis as a young, starry-eyed trapeze artist who meets and woos the wounded, embittered, former trapeze-artist Lancaster. I have a giant picspam/recap of it here. To sum up: SLASHCROBATS. ♥

My, my. And that's only three out of many. The boy was some kind of slash magnet! Remind me to link you sometime to a few recaps I wrote for episodes of his 1971 show with Roger Moore, The Persuaders. ...oh, look, I just did. :D