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Who isn’t sobered into a melancholy pause upon realizing that most of the cast of Spartacus has now departed this earthly veil? Look at the list:
Lawrence Olivier — dead!
Jean Simmons — dead!
Peter Ustinov — dead!
Charles Laughton — dead for ages now!
It’s somewhat fitting that only The Ragpicker’s Son himself — star of the slave rebellion show and Gordon Gekko’s true father– Kirk Douglas — remains alone from the vast ranks of this blighted party.
And now this day, even the questionably heterosexual but unquestionably loyal “Antonius” — Tony Curtis — a Noo Yawkah-done-good extraordinaire, has finally taken that last train to the Bronx.
I always loved Spartacus as a youth, albeit not for Curtis’s part, though he made a great Sparty sidekick, despite the bath scenes (not that there’s anything wrong with bath scenes, per se). It was on WPIX Channel 11 and/or WOR-9 at least two or three times a year, maybe because of native sons (of Noo Yawk) Curtis and Douglas were the stars.
No matter, Curtis was always a favorite of mine for this flick and for Billy Wilder’s classic featuring Marilyn Monroe at her apex — Some Like it Hot, which co-starred another all-time great, Jack Lemmon. It’s nice to remember that before he started appearing in Dan Tanna’s Vegas with a bad toupee, Tony could kick some ass on the silver screen, not to mention catching some off of it.
I’ll leave this hat tip to Tony with a funny story he told in a 2006 interview with Esquire magazine, talking about his early days of fame in New York and L.A. —
When I left the Navy, I used the GI Bill to get into the Dramatic Workshop, which was located at the President Theatre on Forty-eighth Street. Walter Matthau and Harry Belafonte were students there, too. We were all just trying to make it. Later on, I went out to California, and good things started happening for me. When I came back to New York to do a promotion for City Across the River, they gave me a suite at the Sherry-Netherland and a huge black limo. I took it around to show my buddies in the Bronx and then went by the Dramatic Workshop. It was a terrible, rainy afternoon, and who do I see out in front? Walter Matthau. He’s got a long, heavy coat on with a Racing Form sticking out of the pocket, and he’s looking down at the gutter. Here I am in this nice, warm limo. And there he is, this grumpy guy surrounded by a cold, miserable world. The look on his face says, “What’s ever going to happen for me? Nothin’!” So I tell the driver to pull alongside him and stop. Now Walter’s watching the limo. I roll the window down, look at him, and say, “I fucked Yvonne De Carlo!” Then I roll the window back up in a hurry and tell the driver to get the hell out of there.
No, no, no, he wasn’t mad! For years, Walter loved to tell that story at parties. He’d make it last twenty minutes.
There’s more funny quotes like that in the link. He sounds like an old pisser, and a guy to have a bourbon with. Self-centered and probably something of a jerk, but a veritable pisser.
Best to you all, and good night Tony.
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Farewell, Bernie Schwartz! May you rest in peace.
Good Tribute Jake!
I liked him too.
I’ll miss Tony Curtis like the dog shit in the tread of my red ball jets. I thought the fly kicked old men like you down flights of stairs. Give us trading ideas. The naive politics and the weepy nostalgia are sick-making.
I have the best record here. What more could you want, tiny brained pleb?
Oh, and please, go fuck a knotty pine.
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Don’t read the blog then.
Jake, why do you defend yourself to these ninos?
I dunno, maybe I enjoy the badinage with intellectually-challenged Democrats?
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I know you have the best record here. I respect your trade ideas. But, the rest of your brain has withered away.. Your tiny mind thinks I’m a democrat. It can only concieve of two possibiities .
You are a product of the imagination-less wasteland that America has become.
Lick my Red Ball Jets and keep the trading ideas coming.
That’s all your good for.
“concieve”? sounds french.
Muppet.
One would assume the preternaturally original phrase “Lick my Red Ball Jets” is a product of Small-brained Pleb’s fecund imagination?
That and the Alex Jones Prison Planet Grassy Knoll conspiracy dimwittery, that is.
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Hey Dan, don’t take it out on Jake cause you missed the train.
D the V – Why don’t you get volatile and like ya noe [sic] vapourize ya self?
Jake – Great post. Thanks.
Ha ha – ‘naive politics’? You’ve just outed yourself as an ignoramus – nevermind a chickenshit beeyotch posting under an unknown name.
Don’t give me this “oh, first time i’m posting” bullshit either.
Your name is “you’re wanting” and you can’t play in the man’s game…
You sir are a douchebag Dan
Dollar index closing in on $78….those hedges getting a little heavy? 🙁
Yes!
I am thinking of cashing in my losses on them, rather than flinging myself into a brick wall, a la Le Monsieur.
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I feel the same way as you though. I have been selling portions of my PM’s this whole way up, looking for a break..trying to balance my long term outlook on gold and maximize my gains by attempting to roughly time the rise & fall……..should have just set it and forget it, and if dollar happens to make a run, take it as a gift to buy more PM’s
It’s kind of annoying, but at least I’m only hedging ANV and SLW.
Unfortch, they are the biggest movers, though. 🙁
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I cut ANV, SLW and IAG in half, but so far IAG is the only one that’s taken much of a beating. I’ve been letting GLD, PAAS, and SSRI run.
Can’t wait to load everything back up again. I guess it’s possible that we won’t get a pull back, but seems unlikely.
If we ever get a decent pull back, I may just go crazy with very large positions into Christmas!
The more I read about we need a pullback, I’m waiting for a pullback, there has to be a pullback, the more I think there will not be a pullback of any substance.
The thought certainly has crossed my mind.
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I love it, great story too
I cut back on ANV and SLW mainly, but also sold some IAG and EGO while letting PAAS and EXK run…
When/if Jake releases the hedges, I Will be jumping back in the deep end, head first & hands tied style.
Jake,
Any thought on EXK here. It looks good technically to me and I like this:
http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2010/09/30/endeavours-cream-of-the-silver-crop.aspx
I may take a small bite here.
I have so much EXK I am running out of closet space. Almost 30k shares now.
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I’m guessing that’s an endorsement. And I suppose you’re hoping it’s bought up also?
Yes, it’s a strong little silver junior, so it’s got lots of M&A possibilities.
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Good post.