En hommage a Bernard Schwartz

Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, but many, like legendary director Stanley Kubrick, considered him the embodiment of royalty. He portrayed Antoninus in Kubrick's Roman epic Spartacus. He hobnobbed in the highest social circles. He married beautiful women (five to be exact, including Janet Leigh and his most recent companion Jill Curtis, formerly VandenBerg). Tony is the father of Jamie Lee Curtis (whose mom is Janet Leigh) and four other children. On September 29, 2010, Tony Curtis died of cardiac arrest

Tony Curtis ruled from a facade throne in la-la land, then dazzled for decades in Sin City and ended up presiding over the very real and noble task of helping stallions pass to greener pastures at the Shiloh Horse Sanctuary (a nonprofit organization that he co-founded with wife, Jill Curtis).

As Jill Curtis reminds us, ""All Tony ever wanted to be was a movie star. He didn't want to be the most dramatic actor." However, in 1959, Tony Curtis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of John 'Joker' Jackson in The Defiant Ones. He may have passed himself off as just a movie star, but his legacy in film, art and even poetry was a bright light in the sky for the 85 years he was alive.

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