Heads up for a Tony Curtisthon!

[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

Comments

[klia]

Earlier, I watched Jamie Lee Curtis on Tavis Smiley, and he prefaced the show by saying the interview was done before Tony died. She talked about her dad in such a sweet way, I got weepy all over again. I may have to record a bunch of movies and leave them on my TiVo until I can handle seeing them. :(

Btw, I don't know if you already saw this, but a friend linked to Roger Moore paying tribute.

[dorinda]

Awww, hey. *hug* Don't worry, you could DVR 'em for later, or (depending on how much room there is on the TiVo *g*) sometime when I visit I could bring 'em. In any case, they'll still be around whenever you feel more like watching! Plus, of course, Captain Newman, which lets Tony's character have a more cheerful arc than any of the three above...Jackson, bless him and his indomitable adaptability, doesn't suffer with the intensity of Sidney Falco, Joker, or Tino.

[liviapenn]

Man, you know how some people have the Gay Porn Standard, ie, "if this isn't more fun than reading gay porn I'm not gonna do it?" I now have the "Sidney Falco lighting JJ Hunsecker's cigarette Standard." If it's not more fun than watching THAT AGAIN, I'm not gonna do it!

..... *watches that again*

[dorinda]

Yeahhhh, now there's a standard to aspire to! Of course, I would hardly get anything done, but the things I did do would be TIP-TOP.