Tony Curtis to be Special Guest at Elvis Week Conversations...

[franny]

Tony Curtis to be Special Guest at Elvis Week Conversations on Elvis: EPE has announced that Tony Curtis will the special guest for Session One of Conversations on Elvis at Elvis Wek on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 10:00 am.
Tony met Elvis in 1960 when he was filming The Rat Race at Paramount Studios. Elvis was a fan of Curtis from watching his films in Memphis theaters and it is even rumored that Elvis copied Curtis' "ducktail" hairstyle in the '50s.
Session Two of Conversations on Elvis will feature some of the cast from Elvis' 1969 Las Vegas engagement at The International Hotel. Both segments will be hosted by Tom Brown from Turner Classic Movies.
The location of the event will be announced soon. Tickets are available for either event individually or you can purchase both together and save. They expect a sell out of this event so purchase tickets in advance.
Go here for Elvis Week ticket info.

(News, Source;EPE)

[Brian]

Interesting

Thank you for posting Franny

[franny]

You're welcome, Brian.

franny

[shelley.m.]

Thanks for the posting,Franny.

[Donut]

I thought Tony only shook hands with Elvis and nothing else. What is he supposed to talk about?

[elvislady]

Thanks franny... i have read tonys autobiography and he had a sad time when he was a young boy, tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on the 3rd of June, 1925, the eldest of three children to immigrant parents, Emanuel and Helen Schwartz. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks", and learned from a young age that the only person who ever had his back was himself, so he learned how to take care of both himself and younger brother Julius. Curtis grew up in poverty, as his father Emanuel, who worked as a tailor, had the sole responsibility of providing for his entire family on his meager income. This led to constant bickering between Curtis' parents over money, and Curtis began to go to movies as a way of briefly escaping the constant worries of poverty and other family problems.

This is really sad!

n 1938, shortly before Tony had his bar mitzvah, tragedy struck when Tony lost the person most important to him, when his brother Julius was killed after being hit by a truck. After this tragedy, Curtis' parents became convinced that a formal education was the best way that Tony could avoid the same "never knowing where your next meal is coming from" life that they had. However, Tony rejected this as he felt that learning about literary classics and algebra wasn't going to advance him in life as much as some real hands-on life experience would.

elvislady

[Tommy]

I thought Tony only shook hands with Elvis and nothing else. What is he supposed to talk about?

Good question

[Tommy]

Thank you very much Franny for the information.

[beckelvis]

INTERESTING!!!!!

[KPM]

I thought Tony only shook hands with Elvis and nothing else. What is he supposed to talk about?

Well perhaps they met more than the one time-and its just never been discussed (guess) Or perhaps Tony will talk of how he feels about having inspired Elvis

[Diane]

It seems anymore that any celebrity that got within spitting distance of Elvis while he was alive now gets special treatment at Elvis functions......

Interesting article, thanks for sharing Franny.

Diane

[Brian]

Well perhaps they met more than the one time-and its just never been discussed (guess) Or perhaps Tony will talk of how he feels about having inspired Elvis

Yeah, I think they just might have met more than one time

Plus Tony Curtis will probably give his thoughts on Elvis acting and acting ability.

[franny]

You're welcome, everyone. I'm also curious and wondering what Tony Curtis will have to say..

It seems anymore that any celebrity that got within spitting distance of Elvis while he was alive now gets special treatment at Elvis functions......

Interesting article, thanks for sharing Franny.

Diane

You're welcome, Diane. It's so nice to see your here, my friend.

franny

[KPM]

I just read his autobiography... pretty interesting.
In interviews he can come off as self obsessed.

[franny]

I just read his autobiography... pretty interesting.
In interviews he can come off as self obsessed.

I didn't know he had an autobiography...thanks!

I saw him once on some show where he was showing his paintings, they weren't bad..

franny

[Donut]

Well perhaps they met more than the one time-and its just never been discussed (guess) Or perhaps Tony will talk of how he feels about having inspired Elvis

Could be. I only remember reading somewhere that when they met Tony told Elvis not to call him Mr Curtis and Elvis told him Ok, but you just call me Mr Presley

[KPM]

I didn't know he had an autobiography...thanks!

I saw him once on some show where he was showing his paintings, they weren't bad..

franny

It just came out a few months ago.

[elvislady]

I didn't know he had an autobiography...thanks!

I saw him once on some show where he was showing his paintings, they weren't bad..

franny

Franny didnt you read my post! lol
elvislady

[franny]

Franny didnt you read my post! lol
elvislady

Sorry, Jeanette. I missed it. I read it now, thanks.
I didn't know anything about his childhood...he had a hard time of it.

franny