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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Film Review  July 20, 2007
Description: Newest Adam Sandler comedy Chuck & Larry is a movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful, that quickly turns from wild farce to gay-agenda movie.

"...Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Richard Chamberlain, Lance Bass, Dave Matthews, Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson. There was a time when “ladies man” meant Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, seducing secretaries with his eyes and his wit..."

Connie and Carla
Film Review  April 23, 2004
Description: Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.

"...She – and this is meant entirely as a compliment – makes a smashing drag queen. Vardalos, however, never really commits to the role; her drag face and fashion sense could just as easily be confused for Jersey mallrat, and her biggest contribution to the role is dropping her voice to a husky, Beavis (or is it Butt-head?) "huh-huh." Vardalos gives herself the Tony Curtis subplot of falling for a guy (Duchovny) who wants to fall back, were she not (supposedly) a guy, too, but all the snap and subversiveness of the original subplot is lost here..."

The Celluloid Closet
Film Review  April 26, 1996
Description: This award-winning 1995 movie, based on Vito Russo's 1981 book, delightfully debunk the widely held belief that images of gays and lesbians were absent in Hollywood movies.

"...In the process, the movie provides a quite compact study in film history. The film clips are interspersed with insightful testimonies from numerous film observers and participants, including Maupin, Susie Bright, Gore Vidal, Paul Rudnick, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Jan Oxenberg, Quentin Crisp, Mart Crowley, Susan Sarandon, and many others..."

Calendar Girl
Film Review  September 10, 1993
Description: Mere calendars would be insufficient to gauge the sense of time one experiences while watching this movie. Eons might be a proper context if one were to give it much...

"...Yeah, right. At the beginning of the movie, there's a montage of famous Monroe shots: her dress blowing up over her face as she stands over a subway grating in Seven Year Itch, her unsuccessful seduction of Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, the cheesecake calendar pose that launched her career..."

Page Two: Wonder Stories
Columns  July 25, 2008
Description: The unbound adventures and outrageous duets of a life spent with science fiction

"...Now, there were warning signs that should have attracted more of my attention. One day Simons and Waldrop got into an afternoonlong argument over whether the first person to stand at the end of that epic to declare "I am Spartacus" was Tony Curtis or Harold J..."

In Print
Screens Review  February 23, 2007

"...Really, Mr. Mamet? Have you no pithier way of precursing a "feh" feeling for Laurence Olivier and the uncommon claim that Tony Curtis is the better actor? Because with language like that, you're not closing, or convincing, anybody...."

Grading Baumgarten's Review
Postmarks  October 27, 2006

"...Second, if the Marines invaded Iwo from "U-boats" it must have been a fairly comical scene, since U-boats are German submarines. Third, Ira Hayes indeed deserves a movie of his own, and he has one: The Outsider (1961) starring none other than Tony Curtis..."

Food-o-File
Food Column  July 7, 2006
Description: Let's just go ahead and get under way ...

"...Melissa and Tony Curtis-Wellings, proprietors of Faraday's Kitchen Store (1501 RR 620 N., 266-5666, www.faradayskitchenstore.com),..."

Turning Tricks With The Amazing Ray
Arts Story  September 5, 2003
Description: With nothing up his sleeve, Esther's Follies resident magic man Ray Anderson pulls wonder -- and laughter -- out of thin air.

"...On the contrary, he's just debuted the escape act described above and is hard at work imagining a new original illusion for the Follies. Magic may be Anderson's livelihood, but clearly for him it's not just a job, it's an adventure.No Hogwarts in Victoria Anderson has been under magic's spell since an early age, and, unlikely as it may sound, Tony Curtis is to blame..."

The In-Laws
Film Review  May 23, 2003
Description: Mention Arthur Hiller’s 1979 film The In-Laws to people of a certain age, and you’ll likely get to see otherwise sane folk run around the room yelling, "Serpentine! Serpentine!" –...

"...Fleming roots his film in action-movie conventions; there are more explosions and high-wire stunts in one act of the remake than in the whole of Hiller’s film. As mincing madman Thibodoux, Suchet is the most memorable thing on screen, part Nathan Lane and part Some Like It Hot-era Tony Curtis..."

The Defiant Ones
Film Review  August 5, 2002
Description: Nearly a decade before the supper-table racial detente of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Kramer mined the subject matter of racial divisiveness in the groundbreaking The Defiant Ones, which paired...

"...Directed by: Stanley Kramer. Starring: Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier..."

Spartacus
Film Review  August 30, 2000
Description: The summer began with Gladiator, and thus will it end. Kubrick’s gladiator film is the pinnacle of sword-and-sandal epics, and who isn’t a sucker for stories about rebellious slaves. This...

"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, John Ireland and Woody Strode..."

Book Reviews
Books Review  March 10, 2000

"...That's page "xi" of Conversations with Wilder, opposite a picture of the 93-year-old Wilder, perhaps the oldest living director (according to the man himself) and one of the uncontested immortals of 20th-century cinema. If you can stop the reels of your imagination after that and put down this priceless audience with a man who has made this world a better, richer place, then you never cried tears of laughter watching Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag..."

Video Reviews
Screens Review  March 10, 2000

"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Encore Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video for their help in providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)The Boston Strangler D: Richard Fleischer (1968); with Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, George Kennedy, Sally Kellerman.Mr. MajestykD: Richard Fleischer (1974); with Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Paul Koslo...."

Play it to the Bone
Film Review  January 28, 2000
Description: If any Tom, Dick, or Harry off the street had directed this movie, it would have to be acknowledged as a bad miscalculation. However, since it was written and directed...

"...Not only are the fight scenes well-filmed, but the social aura surrounding the scene is especially on point. Robert Wager as the hotel owner, along with Tom Sizemore, Jack Carter, and Richard Masur as the promoters, and a host of stars (Rod Stewart, Kevin Costner, James Woods, Tony Curtis) in cameos as themselves add some of the delicious flavor that the movie is otherwise begging for..."

Some Like It Hot
Film Review  December 21, 1999
Description: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. If Billy Wilder achieved nothing else in...

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Joe E..."

The Man With Susan's Plan
Screens Story  June 24, 1999

"...Out of that office I made movies for Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, PolyGram, and then one day I got a call from Sid Sheinberg, who said, "I want you to do me a favor." It turned out that MCA in the Fifties had all these anthology television series like General Electric, Heinz 57 Playhouse, Jane Wyman Presents, and so on, and they were usually half-hour, black-and-white-film shows, and Sid, who now owned them, was basically wanting to know how he could make money with them. The problem was that most of it was melodrama, most of it was not all that good, but it featured all these terrific actors: Gloria Swanson, Groucho Marx, Abbott and Costello, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, Steve McQueen, Bob Redford ....."

Scanlines
Screens Story  June 12, 1998

"...D: Alexander MacKendrick (1957) with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Emile Meyer..."

The Summer Revival Spirit
Screens Story  June 12, 1998

"...D: Blake Edwards; with Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill...."

Under the Big Top
Screens Column  April 17, 1998

"...What is it with daring young men and flying trapezes? In 1956's Trapeze (9:45pm), the old trapeze star (Burt Lancaster) is being upstaged by his protégé (Tony Curtis) but things don't get really tense until the young female tumbler (Gina Lollabrigida) shows up. None of the three really have to do a whole lot except look good, and they do that well..."

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