Jamie Lee Curtis
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
11/21/1958
Los Angeles, CA |
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COMING SOON: Madonna, Movie Star (Take 14)
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Acting ability aside, you have to admire Madonna's tenacity when it comes to putting herself time and again in front of the lens, raw and intrepid -- as if she's never heard of seriously bad flicks such as "Body of Evidence," "Who's That Girl" and "Shanghai Express." The list goes on and on. "Next Best Thing" So this Friday finds the M One going at it all over again with "The Next Best Thing" (opening nationwide). In her continual quest to prove that sh
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Big Brother's Eddie: $500,000 richer; beauty queen Jamie: deserved zilch
August 15, 2001 10:04am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1, 2000 -- He's opinionated and brutish. He's known for countless flashes of private parts. And he's laughing all the way to the bank. Big Brother houseguest Eddie snagged 59% of the votes nationwide in the show's finale, and deserved it. His honest, gruff persona won over viewers who grew sour with the remaining houseguests' agendas (even though Josh and Curtis did make off with a pretty penny). The breakdown: Eddie -- Winner: $500,000. The cancer survivor, just 21 years old, r
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'Whole Nine Yards' Defeats 'Next Best Thing'
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Despite all the hype, Madonna came in second best at the weekend box office.Studio tracking studies predicting a first-place opening for Paramount's "The Next Best Thing," the romantic comedy/drama teaming the Material Girl with Rupert Everett, were wrong. Instead, top honors went for the third consecutive weekend to Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards."Bruce Willis "Yards," the R-rated hit comedy from Warners, Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures, held str
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'Angels' Beat Devil
July 23, 2001 9:52am EST"Charlie's Angels" won this weekend's box office election by a mile despite projections that "Little Nicky" might give it a devil of a time. "Angels," Columbia's PG-13 action adventure comedy, continued kicking box office butt in its second weekend with a still sexy estimated $25.0 million (-38%) at 3,037 theaters (theater count unchanged; $8,232 per theater). Its cume is approximately $75.4 million, heading for $150 million or more. "Angels" had the highest per-theater average for any film play
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Quote of the Day: Curtis on fame
June 20, 2001 7:59am ESTActress Jamie Lee Curtis, also a children's author and a spokeswoman for the Children Affected with Aids Foundation, to Reuters on life after being a Hollywood celebrity:
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THE COMING BOX OFFICE WEEKEND
May 08, 2001 4:19am ESTThis weekend's box office election is too close to call, according to insiders who see a close race between "Charlie's Angels" and "Little Nicky" for the popular vote. Columbia's PG-13-rated action adventure comedy kicked off to a record setting $40.1 million last weekend. New Line's PG-13-rated youth appeal comedy "Little Nicky," opening at about 2,910 theaters, is flying high on the Hollywood radar screen. "It probably will fall less than 50%," an insider predicts about "Angels." "Fi
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The Tailor of Panama Review
April 25, 2001 9:47am ESTThis movie is Tailor made for fans of smart, shrewd spy games, but don't expect Bond, James Bond
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Oscars: Effects! Sound! Talent!
March 19, 2001 11:51am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Jan. 11, 2001 -- If anything, it won't be a total and complete shutout for "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Or will it? The Jim Carrey blockbuster is among the seven films being considered for this year's Visual Effects Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. Going up against the Grinch himself will be "Cast Away," "Dinosaur," "Gladiator," "Hollow Man," "The Perfect Storm" and "X-Men." After the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee
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Now Showing: Julia Roberts' Cleavage
March 19, 2001 11:50am EST"ERIN BROCKOVICH" PREMIERE SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 17, 2000 -- It's official: Media wags can't stop talking about Julia Roberts and her uh, um, well ... breasts. "Erin Brockovich" See, the thing is that Julia shows a little more than we're all accustomed to seeing of her in "Erin Brockovich," the new Steven Soderbergh movie opening today, in which our star plays a small-town divorced mother who wages environmental-lawsuit war against a big, evil corporation. And, oh, Julia's character f
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NEWSMAKERS: Elvis Spawn to Wed (Again)!
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2000 -- It's very hard to top Michael Jackson, but Lisa Marie Presley seems to think she's done it. Elvis' daughter, who married Jackson in May 1994 (and divorced him 20 months later), will marry again -- this time to rock singer John Oszajea, her spokesman, Paul Bloch, said Tuesday. The happy couple met in May and became engaged just before Christmas. The story goes that Oszajea, 25, first went to Presley's mother, Priscilla Presley, to ask for her daughter's hand
