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Tony Curtis recalls a key to his start in acting
You don't usually think of a shoeshine as an audition opportunity. But that's how Tony Curtis got his start, he told an audience of 100 or so fans in Huntington Friday night.
"The Depression prepared me to be an actor," he said. "On the streets of Manhattan at age 7 or 8, if I acted hungrier than the next kid, someone would put his foot up and I'd get the shoeshine. It's the same in getting...
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