Curtis at 83

It is very rare that I watch the live edition of “The View” on cable. But one night last week, Tony Curtis was special guest and I had to catch up with Danny Wilde, the character he played in the British TV series, “The Persuaders.”

Do you remember that TV series? It run for one season and was considered the most expensive British television series produced, estimated £100,000 per episode.

It was filmed in France, Spain, Sweden, and Italy where two playboys, played by Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, got in and out of trouble, using their charm and cars.

Moore played Lord Brett Sinclair is an Oxford-educated English aristocrat. He drove a Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS with V8 wheels and markings and personalised number plates of his initials: “ST 1” Danny Wilde drove a red Ferrari 246 Dino, many years before Crockett was blazing around Miami. Hehe.

I was surprised how old Tony Curtis was. Now, he was 83! Wow. And he looked old and far from his role in the Persuaders and in movies like “Some Like It Hot” done in 1959 with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Now, I remember that he was once romantically linked to M2 (aka Marilyn Monroe).

Did you know that he served in the US Navy during During World War aboard USS Proteus? And he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945!

And that he is also a painter? Last year, his painting “The Red Table” was on display in the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. Some of his paintings sell for more than 25K!

But I guess, most fans know that he had been married six times and most known wife is Janet Leigh and is the dad of Jamie Lee Curtis. She is one reason why I always want to watch "True Lies" where she played the wife of Arnold S. Remember that escape scene where is handles an Uzi and it falls down the stairs.

He nearly died of pneumonia a couple of years ago and was in a coma for several days. During the interview at “The View” he was just seated and but still carried the charm as he kissed the hands of the hosts!

Scoop? There is a planned movie version of “The Persuaders” and Ben Stiller might… might play Danny Wilde?