Kick a corpse, why don'tcha? Tony Curtis cuts kids out of $60 million will.

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 2 May 2011

For the Globe and low rent Examiner, someone being dead is no reason they can't appear on the cover of a gossip rag. As often happens with the two Wicked Step Sisters who love the Hey Old Timer gossip, we get a story about a dispute over the will. In the case of Tony Curtis, this dispute becomes a cover story seven months after his death.

The lawyers must be piling up the billable hours big time.

The Globe bids farewell to the stars we lost in 2010.

Publication: Globe
Date: 3 January 2010

The Globe often has a story in contention for Meanest Story of the Week, but not this time around. They take up most of the cover in tribute to people who died this year, and all they have is pictures with no teaser headlines about tragic secrets or the like. The list includes several people whose deaths wer not mentioned in the Globe before this issue. In no particular order, the names are:

• Tony Curtis
• Dennis Hopper
• John Forsythe
• Rue McLanahan
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Barbara Billingsley
• Leslie Nielsen
• Gary Coleman

And the only person on the list who I will print a picture of here, not out of any disrespect for the others but out of special respect for her. 'Cos she's purdy.

• Miss Lena Horne

Best wishes to the family and friends of all the people on this list, from a fan.

Kick a FRESH corpse, why don'tcha?Tony Curtis' secret daughter

Publication: Globe
Date: 25 October 2010

I expected to see a few tributes in the tabloids to Tony Curtis in the week after his passing, but no go. Consider that People had cover stories about Lena Horne, John Forsythe and Gary Coleman the week after they died. The National Enquirer had Peter Graves on the cover after he died. But Tony Curtis only rates stories in the Globe, which is clearly a secondary publication in comparison to the Enquirer. No disrespect to anyone I mentioned, but in his day Tony Curtis was a much bigger movie star than anyone else who has died so far this year.

So one more story in the Globe trashing his memory. The subheadline is "Sister he hid from Jamie Lee".

As I think I've made clear, he deserved better from the supermarket rags.

Kick a FRESH corpse, why don'tcha?Tony Curtis' heartbreak he took to his grave

Publication: Globe
Date: 18 October 2010

Fresh trash on Thursdays!

The Globe says they know the heartbreak Tony Curtis took to his grave.

The real heartbreak is that the Globe is the only gossip magazine to mention him on the cover in the weekly news cycle right after he died. In my opinion, he's the biggest movie star to have died this year, bar none.

Breaking news:Tony Curtis dead at 85

Publication: New York Times
Date: 30 September 2010

Not one day after I post a review saying that the tabloids suck at predicting who will die, they get their fourth correct prediction of the year. Tony Curtis, the Oscar nominated actor whose greatest popularity came in light comedy, has died at the age of 85 of cardiac arrest in his Las Vegas home. The Globe printed a story about his health woes in late July.

My favorite role of his is in Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster. He was also very good in Some Like It Hot and Spartacus. He was married to Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis is his daughter so, good on ya, Tony.

Best wishes to the family and friends of Tony Curtis, from a fan.

Not Long 4 This World Alert:Tony Curtis fights for life

Publication: Globe
Date: 2 August 2010

Fresh trash on Thursday! Eight of the Only Ten Magazines That Matter have websites that give sneak peaks of their new covers their on Wednesdays, and of the 27 stories mentioned there, there are only two that are about folks that haven't been on the covers of the supermarket rags before this year.

One is a sad story from the unreliable Globe, telling us that Tony Curtis is fighting for his life. There are plenty of pictures of sickly old Tony now, but I wanted to publish a picture from the Good Old Days when he was just about the prettiest man in show business.

You may already know this, but Elvis Presley's natural hair color was a light brown. He decided to dye his hair black because he wanted to look like Tony Curtis.

Best wishes to Mr. Curtis, his family and friends, from a fan.