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Today would have been Tony Curtis’ 100th birthday. TCM is celebrating with several of the actor’s best films, including “Some Like it Hot,” “Sweet Smell of Success” and “The Defiant Ones.” I met him on a couple of occasions, and asked about one of his more forgotten films. That story and others are part of

Larry Storch, who died July 8 just six months shy of 100, was everywhere on ’60s television, one of the busiest second bananas on the screen. The New York native seldom headlined and more often guest starred in dozens of sitcoms, variety shows and dramas. To many, however, he’ll always be best known as Corporal

Over the years I’ve spent covering television I’ve only met a few genuine movie stars. One was Tony Curtis, who died Wednesday in Hollywood at 85. First time I met the man was way back in 1986, on one of my first TCA press tours. Curtis was at the Century Plaza hotel in Beverly Hills,