More than 400 relatives, friends, and fans honored Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, 85, Monday at a crammed Las Vegas funeral chapel. Curtis, who died Wednesday in his Nevada home, was eulogized by his sixth and final wife, Jill Curtis, and his daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, who teared up as she referred to him as full of life and "a little meshugana," the Yiddish word for crazy. "All of us got something from him. I, of course, got his desperate need for attention," she quipped. California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger recalled Curtis was a beloved mentor who told him to ignore folks who mocked his accent: "Don't pay any attention to those guys. I heard the same thing." (Curtis had a distinctive Bronx accent.)
The chapel was decorated with seven paintings made by Curtis, and a short film tribute featured clips from his varied work, including the historical epic Spartacus and the TV show The Flintstones.