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Legendary actor Tony Curtis dead at 85
By: Bill O'ReillySeptember 30, 2010
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New York Times: Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who came out of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim in dramatic and comic roles alike, from "The Defiant Ones" to "Some Like It Hot," died Wednesday at his home in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas. He was 85.

The cause was cardiac arrest, the Clark County coroner said.

Mr. Curtis, one of the last survivors of Hollywood's golden age, became a respected dramatic actor, earning an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in "The Defiant Ones," a 1958 Stanley Kramer film. But he was equally adept in comedies; his public even seemed to prefer him in those roles, flocking to see him, for example, in the 1965 slapstick hit "The Great Race."
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