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[Hollywood, September 18. Image via Splash.]

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:10:00 EDT Dodai http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5052432&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jamie Lee Curtis Talks To <em>More</em> About Growing Old In Hollywood ]]> Since she appeared "topless" (i.e. appearing to be topless but actually wearing a strapless bra and submerged in water) in AARP Magazine, Jamie Lee Curtis has become something of a poster woman for aging gracefully. She went on Oprah to discuss her theories on life and love after the AARP cover caused something of a scandal. Now she's on the cover of More, and inside she expounds further on her personal philosophies. Some of her musings are sort of severe and annoyingly new agey (she only wears black and white now; she speaks "recovery") but what really struck me was her take on growing old in a Hollywood context. As the daughter of two stars who were famous for the majority of their lives, Jamie has a unique perspective on aging in the public eye. "I have watched, my whole life, people age and become buffoons," Jamie Lee tells More. "When you crest in your thirties or forties and then you don't pull out of the public eye, you become a caricature. You have to have grace and dignity and gratitude, and walk away kind of slowly, like you're walking away from a bear. I'm going to go now, bear. Don't kill me, don't rip my fucking face off."

Is it true? Is there no way to grow old and remain in the spotlight and do it in a way that respects your life and your work? I mean, for every Judi Dench, there's an Elizabeth Taylor, and Jamie Lee herself has been relegated to performing in Beverly Hills Chihuahua (no joke, that is her next film, which More describes as a story about "a pampered pooch [who] gets lost in, yes, the mean streets of Mexico.") Maybe if, instead of going on TV to talk in vague terms about empowerment and living a stripped down, un-materialistic life, she crusaded for better parts for older women in Hollywood, she'd actually make a quantifiable difference. Because as it stands now, her continued blathering about her self-actuality is getting almost as tired as the audience for AARP magazine.

[More Magazine]
Earlier: Oprah: Jamie Lee Curtis Cuts The Crap About Women And Aging

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:30:00 EDT Jessica http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017677&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jamie Lee Curtis Tries To Stay Neutral ]]>

[New York, May 28. Image via Splash.]

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Wed, 28 May 2008 14:10:00 EDT Dodai http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011396&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Why Is Mariah So Shady? ]]> MARIAHeyes042908.jpg
  • Did Mariah Carey have an eye job or something? She won't walk down the red carpet without her sunglasses. If so, it's probably not her first procedure; her nose and boobs seem to have changed in the past few years. [Page Six]
  • Also: Mariah's been wearing a giant ring that gossipers want you to think is engagement-esque. And she's been hanging with Nick Cannon. [People]
  • David Bowie and Iman's 7-year-old daughter, Alexandria, listens to Hilary Duff songs, at which point "David just leaves the room," Iman says. "He thinks she should be listening to underground music." [ONTD]

  • Amy Winehouse says she's not cheating on her hubby: "Me and Blake are meant for each other, he's my man." [Mirror]
  • But, um, apparently Blake Incarcerated thinks she's divorcing him and wants £3 million. These tears dry on their own. [The Sun]
  • But Amy denies having an affair. [Daily Mail]
  • Ashley Alexandra Dupre is suing Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis. Her statement claims that she was offered alcoholic drinks and "once intoxicated, she was induced into exposing her breasts while being filmed and told to sign a 'release' form." She was 17 at the time and not "legally competent" to enter a into a contract. She's seeking $10 million. [ET]
  • Joe Francis says: "To show my appreciation, I'm sending Ashley a dozen cupcakes from Magnolia (Bakery)- assorted with sprinkles along with a card attached that says thanks for the free publicity." [Rush & Molloy]
  • So yeah, Britney's back on How I Met Your Mother. Abby, the "sassy office assistant," will try and get revenge on her crush, Ted, since he's dating her boss. Yawn. [Yahoo News]
  • Meanwhile, Brit's Child Custody Evaluation report, which is "several hundred" pages long, is both damaging and encouraging for Britney. [TMZ]
  • Jamie Lee Curtis says of Miley's pix: "I only wish that her guardians had protected her." [People]
  • Bill O'Reilly on Miley Cyrus's Vanity Fair pix: "If you have a billion dollar franchise, you don't throw it away." And what about the millions of Hannah Montana-loving kids? [Perez Hilton]
  • Kathy Griffin and Apple billionaire Steve Wozniak: Dunzo. "As a matter of fact, I got an email last week from him, and he is going to marry someone else," Kathy says. "I think he might be married. I don't really know that for sure, though." [WOW]
  • Tracy Ullman plays Dina Lohan on her show, State Of The Union, and says: "I think I need to get bigger, better teeth to play her... American teeth that will do her justice." [Page Six]
  • Ludacris with lipstick on his collar sounds like a song. [E!
  • Jason "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" Segel: Seen making out with soap star Adrienne Frantz. [Page Six]
  • Kristin Bell still has her Catholic high school uniform. "I tucked that away when I was 18," she says. "I'm going to wear it on my wedding night." [Page Six]
  • Pamela Anderson is now an American citizen. [Page Six]
  • Dancing With The Stars' Christian de la Fuente was rushed to the hospital after being injured while dancing with Cheryl Burke. He got hurt dancing. [TMZ]
  • Rocker Scott Weiland has been sentenced to 192 hours in county jail for his November DUI arrest. Good luck! [TMZ]
  • Shenae Grimes, who plays Darcy on Degrassi: The Next Generation, will be joining the cast of the 90210 spinoff. I'll admit I used to watch D:TNG. The storyline where Darcy posed half naked in her cheerleader uniform and sold the pictures to some guy over the internet was crazytown. [ET]
  • Is Ryan Seacrest going to get kicked off of American Idol? [MSNBC]
  • A documentary fronted by Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson — in which she plays "lifestyle coach" — might be dropped from the UK's ITV after one of the participants was arrested following the discovery of the body of an 18-year-old man in her apartment. [Variety]
  • Victoria Beckham's boobs are gone. Isn't that old news? [The Sun]
  • Mel Gibson will be in his first feature film since 2002. He'll play a police investigator. Wouldn't it be awesome if the cop were a Jew? [Yahoo News]
  • The guy accused of stalking Uma Thurman might not have broken any laws. "He loved her and possibly still does. He never wanted to annoy her, threaten her or alarm her," says his lawyer. "Creepy? Yes. Obsessed? Yes. Criminal? No." Uma is testifying in court today. [Reuters]
  • Cher had a fling with Tom Cruise at the start of his career. She's 16 years older than he is! And there's a joke in there about Cher being popular with The Gays but it's best left alone. [Daily Mail]
  • Janet Jackson's boobs are in the news again. She wasn't wearing a bra at the GLAAD awards and it was pretty obvious. [Daily News]
  • Four words: Jimi Hendrix sex tape. Let me stand next to your fire! [NY Times]
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EDT Dodai http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385108&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ <i>Oprah</i>: Jamie Lee Curtis Cuts The Crap About Women And Aging ]]> Jamie Lee Curtis was on Oprah yesterday to discuss aging and being the naked cover girl of the current issue of baby-boomer magazine AARP. Curtis says she's over fighting the aging process — she openly admits to the plastic surgery she's had in the past — saying it's futile, and that once she dropped all the bullshit nonsense about looking and dressing the part, she finally felt free. It sounds a little self-help-y, but it was also kinda inspiring to hear someone famous go on such a huge show as Oprah and talk about her disdain for the fashion and advertising industries, because of what they do to women's minds. Clip above.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT Tracie http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=377450&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jamie Lee Curtis Would Like Us All To Have A Great Weekend ]]> LHJ.gif"All of a sudden I realized I exist," Jamie Lee Curtis tells Jeanne Marie Laskas in July's Ladies Home Journal. (No, we don't usually read it, as much as we are totes obsessed with "Can This Marriage Be Saved" but the publicist sent us a nice file of it over the internet and we're searching for crap to post so we can resume drinking.) Well, bonerkiller of bonerkillers, Jamie Lee!
How many of us are killing ourselves every day? Who here has high blood pressure and is still eating salt and french fries? Who has been told that her liver is enlarged and unless she stops drinking she's gonna end up with liver disease and/or need a liver transplant and/or die? We create senseless acts of violence against ourselves daily. And we live in this amnesia that we're not. If I was a doctor sitting with a woman who says, 'Oh yes, I smoke.' You do? Really? Then I don't want you as a patient..

You know..if you want to avoid your 14-year-old child drinking, make sure you don't drink in front of your 14-year-old child. If your children see that you can celebrate something without alcohol, they will not know that the first thing you do when something good happens to you is pop a bottle of Champagne... We're sedentary, we eat salt all day long. We go to the doctor, we get a blood test. We get a heart test. We get diagnostic tools that medicine has now to tell us how we are, and what do we do? We don't do anything. Or we take a drug. And that's not what I'm talking about. Take a drug so you don't have to change. No! I'm saying change. Change it right now!
Yeah we thought about it, but then we realized we're not the LHJ demo yet, so we'll worry about our livers when we've got loveless marriages to save. Cheers!

Earlier: Jamie Lee Curtis: 'Mom, It's Not Right' [Huffington Post]

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Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:15:56 EDT Moe http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=269428&view=rss&microfeed=true