Tony curtis autobiography

Peter Golenbock is a prolific sports journalist and author. He was born in New York City on July 19, 1946 and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1967 and the New York University School of Law in 1970. While at Dartmouth, he began writing about sports for The Daily Dartmouth, which led to stints with the New York Times and the Boston Globe. It was also at Dartmouth where he became friends with Robert Ariel "Red" Rolfe, the former New York Yankees third baseman and the school's athletic director. Rolfe entertained him for hours with stories of the famous Yankees teams of the 1930's, which had a profound impact on Golenbock's unintended career path. After graduating law school, he eventually landed a job in the legal department of Prentice-Hall Publishing. Surprisingly, he was able to convince the head of the trade book division to allow him to write about the Yankees. The resulting book, Dynasty: The New York Yank

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Tony Curtis: The Autobiography

November 9, 2024

I read Janet Leigh’s autobiography, and I got her “take” on her eleven-year marriage to Tony Curtis. I thought it would be interesting to hear what he had to say about it, so I went to Tony Curtis: the Autobiography. Written by Tony Curtis with assistance from Barry Paris, the book told me very little about that infamous marriage. In fact, Curtis has almost nothing to say about any of his seven (eight?) marriages. I do have to admit, he does mention Leigh by name sometimes as he tells of some incident, which is more than he does with his other wives. A telling statement when he met some monarch or president or some such: he says he was with whatever wife he was with at the time. And that is telling to me for I found Curtis to be arrogant and self-centered. Yes, according to the “asides” written by Paris, which flesh out the stories Curtis tells, Tony Curtis was beloved by almost everybody. But I don’t buy it. Autobiographies are notori

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Tony Curtis: The Autobiography

Synopsis:

The uncensored, anecdotal memoirs of a Hollywood legend chronicles Curtis's journey from the streets of New York, to worldwide success, to the insanity of alcohol and drug abuse, to a new life. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Lippy memoir of actor/painter/novelist Bernard Schwartz, a hard-luck kid from gang-ridden New York who went to Hollywood in his early 20s and became known as Tony Curtis; told with Paris (Louise Brooks, 1989) inserting interviews with Curtis's friends, co-workers, and family members into the otherwise all-Curtis skrivelse. As ever, Curtis thinks well of himself, having checked both a skid in his career and addictions to cocaine and alcohol requiring two trips to the Betty Ford Clinic. Curtis's first trip to BFC didn't take, but family intervention in his yearlong slip planted him right back in the mottagning for a second drying out and ego- retooling. Even so, the newer, bri