I had no idea Curtis painted! In any case, it's the old story--a name will
get you in the door, but you have to show you have the stuff to stay there.
Actually that works better for Curtis' daughter than for himself. Aside
from the "Yondeh lies da castle uv my foddeh" line that everyone loves to
use to parody Curtis/Bernie Schwartz's accent, I don't recall him being a
bad actor: and in "Sweet Smell of Success" he and Burt Lancaster were really
"huge," both of them--though Lancaster more than Curtis--acting against
type.
I always got a bit of a chuckle out of Berryman calling his next to last
book "Love and Fame." The love part I understand...but fame? A bit
grandiose were we, John? Tony Curtis was famous; you were notorious:-).
Poets seem to be the original small circle of friends. It still amazes me
that everyone knows everyone else, or there's that proverbial six degrees of
separation between me, who nobody's heard of, and people who are going to
get their brains bronzed and mounted in the Library of Congress.
Ken
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Prose snap--Wanting to Be Giuseppe Verdi
But Ken, hasn't Tony C continued to make much moola from his 'art',
that is his paintings?
& would someone who had not been 'Tony Curtis' have managed that with
just his particular talent?
Not that most poets really have to worry. About 'fame' I mean...
Doug
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