Thursday, September 30, 2010

Coroner: Actor Tony Curtis dies at Las Vegas home

This news had been worldwide nowadays. Coroner Mike Murphy are informed us that Curtis died at 9.25 at  his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest. Moreover, Curtis who had heart bypass surgery in 1994, began his acting career as a 1950s heartthrob but became a respected actor with such films as "The Defiant Ones" and "Sweet Smell of Success.

"The Defiant Ones" brought him an Oscar nomination in 1958 for his portrayal of a racist escaped convict handcuffed to a black escapee, Sidney Poitier. The following year, he co-starred in one of the most acclaimed film comedies ever, Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot."

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