Anthony Curtis
The David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement, one of the honors Tony Curtis collected across his career, points toward the breadth of work he produced as a film actor, television actor, painter, and writer over several decades.
Curtis was born on June 3, 1925, at Flower Hospital in New York City. He attended Seward Park High School and later studied at City College of New York and The New School. Before his screen career took shape, he served as military personnel and a military officer, earning the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. That background in discipline and public service preceded his emergence as an actor working across both film and television.
His activities extended well beyond the screen. Curtis was also a painter and a writer, pursuits he carried alongside his acting work. The recognition that came his way included Golden Globe Awards, the Henrietta Award, the Bambi Award, the Sitges Grand Honorary Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with the David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement — a collection of honors spanning different countries and different corners of the entertainment world.
Curtis died on September 29, 2010, in Henderson, having been born a citizen of the United States who made his way from New York City to a career that touched film, television, visual art, and writing. The Sitges Grand Honorary Award, like the David di Donatello, recognized the full arc of that career rather than any single moment within it, and the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remains a fixed, public marker of the place he held as a film and television actor.
Quotes by Anthony Curtis
The Chinese have a sense of destiny that is driving them toward an ever-greater standing among humankind. Given sufficient engineering development time, there is no reason the Chinese program could not attain the capability and quality of the U.S. program.
But if this continues (fuel prices keep rising), you might start to see that effect.
If you want to know where Vegas is expanding, look at where the last (locals casino) opened and where the next one's going to be. They've gotten very good at timing these places.
In the short run, I don't see it happening. We're definitely going to hit a point where people are going to say, 'Phooey,' something's got to give and that long trip across the desert might be it.
That's a high room count for a locals property. They're a very viable alternative for people who want to stay in a decent place but not pay those high Strip rates.
That's really just the price of admission, and I'd give up 5 percent on pure entertainment value alone,
This could be the last March Madness if the legislation moves through and it passes, ... They've been talking about this since early last year and a bill's been reintroduced. They say if it's going to happen at all it will happen this year. I think it's very possible.