Poor Tony Curtis died, yet another from Hollywood's Golden Era. I guess since he follows Gloria Stuart and Eddie Fisher, that means Jimmy Carter is off the hook to complete the trifecta ("they always die in threes").

At least Curtis was remembered for Some Like It Hot, as an actor in his own right; Fisher, at his peak the most popular singer in the country over even Sinatra, was called "Carrie Fisher's father."

I remember reading the first deliciously sleazy autobio by Shelley Winters in which she IDed Curtis as her cuz Bernie Schwartz and of course thought he was beautiful and hilarious alongside Marilyn Monroe.  I also remember reading of his infamously Bronx-accented line "yonda lies da castle of my fadda" from The Black Shield of Falworth when I was a kid; don't ever let anyone tell you embarrassing moments fade if that embarrassing moment happened to be on celluloid and predated distractions such as the Internet.

Bosom buddies with Marilyn

I also think his appearance in Spartacus—and later in The Celluloid Closet ("Listen, we're all half man, half woman")—left me with the impression that he must have been bisexual. (I believe his name was tossed around to play Gordon in Boy Culture.) Bi and not gay because he definitely seemed to like the ladies; I believe his final wife was a much-younger leggy blonde.

RIP, cutie.

With late ex Janet Leigh. Daughter Jamie Lee Curtis came to understand him "perhaps not as a father but as a man."