Tony Curtis: Come to Hungary, Land of Hot Asses

After wondering for years why anyone in America would want to visit Hungary, we now know the answer: women's behinds! At least that seems to be the assumption of Magyar Turizmus Rt (the Hungarian Tourist Office), or whoever underwrote the new English-language commercial featuring American sort-of-star/sort-of-Hungarian Tony Curtis, which was passed to us yesterday by reader J.G. (Click here to watch it, or right click on the link to download it.) While the ad contains many of the obvious stock tourist delights of Budapest - Parliament, the Chain Bridge, the swimming pool of the Gellért - the highlight is a scene in which the creepily overcoiffed Curtis, sitting in Café Gerbaud, turns from the camera to extravagantly ogle the ass of a woman walking by.

Okay, so this is probably better than showing puszta cowboys standing up on horses, or stirring big pots of pörkölt. But given that you can actually get fired in America for staring too hard at someone's rump, it sort of makes you wonder what they were thinking. Then again, at least it didn't show him checking out Jamie Lee's uniboob.