Bernie Schwartz

Robert Osborne didn't ask Tony Curtis the one burning question I would have. TCM re-ran a superb 1999 TCM interview with Curtis over the weekend:
The question: "Did you really say that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing Hitler?''
Since Curtis is Jewish and since he actually said he changed his named from Schwartz because it's German and he hated what the Germans were doing "to my people in Europe,'' the insult to Monroe is brutally meaningful.
Curtis did say he had compassion for Monroe's problems and he predicted "Some Like It Hot'' would be her last film because she was so fragile. (She made one more released film, actually: "The Misfits'').
Curtis made a chatty, revealing interviewee, as hard on himself (admitting he took cocaine, heroin and drank to excess in the 1970s and 1980s) as he was on his ex-wife Janet Leigh, co-star Kirk Douglas and producer-director Stanley Kramer.
If it's run again, grab it.