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3 October 2008 4:55 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood star Tony Curtis regrets criticising his kiss with late screen star Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot - insisting their clinch was very passionate.

Curtis once likened his steamy scene with Monroe in the 1959 movie to "kissing Hitler".

But in his upcoming memoirs, American Prince, he reveals the scene actually left him aroused.

He writes, "I (was aroused) all through that scene... and when (director Billy Wilder) yelled .Cut!', she pushed herself off me and gave me a big, satisfied smile."

Curtis also reveals that "after years of putting up with guys coming on to me", he felt nervous about dressing in drag for the movie.

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25 September 2008 11:36 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Amateur film footage showing <b>Marilyn Monroe</b> at work on 1959 movie <b>Some Like It Hot</b> has fetched &#163;8,000 at auction in Australia. The two-and-a-half minute film was taken by a US naval officer who Monroe invited to the set, reports the <b>BBC</b>. Charles Leski of Leski Auctions said: &quot;Monroe memorabilia is always in demand, but rarely do we get one-off material like this. &quot;It is also extremely rare for such important archival footage to be auctioned outside of the US</b> (more)

By Sarah Rollo

16 September 2008 6:30 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The big news of the day is that IMDb, through a partnership with Hulu, is offering free TV shows and movies online. I quick peek at their video page shows me the following titles: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Raising Arizona Planet of the Apes Weird Science Some Like It Hot Fiddler on the Roof The Longest Day "Battlestar Galactica" "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" "Heroes" "Firefly" "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" "Without a Trace" That's just a taste, click here for more. IMDB.com's site founder Col Needham said Monday, "Our goal is to show our users every movie and TV show on the Internet for free on IMDb.com." This seems to be just the beginning.

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3 September 2008 5:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Unseen footage of Marilyn Monroe, recorded while she was filming Some Like It Hot, has been discovered.

The amateur video, featuring Monroe and her co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was taken in 1959 by a U.S. navy officer after Monroe invited him to the set at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California.

The two-and-a-half minute film was found in its original box with the sailor's possessions in Australia, where he had emigrated to.

The video is expected to fetch up to $25,000 (GBP13,513) when it is auctioned off in Melbourne, Australia later this month.

Charles Leski, of Leski Auctions, says, "Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is always in demand, but rarely do we get one-off material like this."

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1 July 2008 5:21 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

If you've seen Wanted, you know that for all the special effects wizardry and incredible action, what's likely to stick with you is the film's closing speech by Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy). We won't spoil the fun for you if you haven't seen it, but it's quotable, easy to remember, and fits almost any occasion.

There is quite a cinematic precedent for famous last words, of course. Billy Wilder alone is on this list three times. Not surprisingly, he has 12 Oscar nominations for writing. The screenplay for Casablanca, always at the top of anyone's list, is featured, too. Some of these you may have heard from time to time but don't know where they're from. And this is certainly not a complete list; these are more or less off the top of my head. Feel free to throw some others at us.

“Oh, no! It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

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30 June 2008 6:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Some Like It Hot star Tony Curtis will return to his birth name, Schwartz, for a touching new movie set in Jerusalem.

The ageing movie icon, whose real name is Bernard Schwartz, plays Mr. Schwartz in Alain Zaloum's David + Fatima.

Curtis teams up with Oscar winner Martin Landau, who plays a rabbi in the new film.

The Romeo + Juliet-style story follows the fortunes of a young Jew and his Palestinian Muslim girlfriend as they elope and escape a land where romance between them is forbidden.

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23 June 2008 12:06 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Kate Beckinsale's nine-year-old daughter is not a fan of her mother's movies - and refuses to even watch them.

The Pearl Harbor star admits she struggles to get little Lily to sit through any of her films, because she would rather watch Marilyn Monroe in classic comedy Some Like It Hot.

She tells Britain's Ok! magazine, "She won't watch any of them, not any!

"We tried it actually - we were on holiday and Van Helsing was on pay per view and Lily was like, 'No, no! No, no.'

"She likes Some Like It Hot - that's her favourite movie."

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29 April 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Following a five-week run at New York City's Film Forum, a 90th-anniversary "tribute" to United Artists will go on the road beginning Friday, when the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Ma screens 20 restored Ua films that Film Forum described as "some of the most entertaining, adventurous, and Oscar-laden American (and foreign) movies of the last nine decades." While Ua was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, the films being screened were mostly produced during the last half of the 20th century. They include Dr. No (1962), the first James Bond movie, starring Sean Connery; the original Pink Panther film, starring Peter Sellers; Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe; the fight films Raging Bull (1980) and Rocky (1976); and the political dramas The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). The restored prints are scheduled to make a cross-country road-show tour over the next year.

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