Jamie Lee Curtis peersat me with a crooked grin through the driver’s side window of my car.
I didn’t put my elbow up.
I didn’t give a shot to not connect.
I connected with you.
Yours is the first human hand I’ve shaken in more than a year!"
[L]ife hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming.
That was powerful, she says, pulling out a chair.
All of us are better when were loved.
At 62, she radiates energy and enthusiasm.
I wake up every day at 4 a.m. and have so much on my mind, she explains.
I’m just so crazy excited and creative right now.
And I don’t want to squander any of it.
A voice in her head kept asking,If not now, when?
“Get out the tape measure, she counsels.
Look at what age your parents died, look at what age you are.
It’s not long.
Laugh about it a little.
And then shut up and do something!
So that’s where I’m at in my life right now.”
Many of these sayings influence her daily.
Metamorphosis
Curtis was thesecond daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
Growing up, Curtis biological father was not around much, she says, and their relationship was tumultuous.
While Leigh and Brandt offered a steadying influence, Curtis describes them as strict and rigid.
Janet married four times, Bob four, and Tony six.
She now has written a dozen of them.
I realized it’s about calcification, she says.
It’s about creating conformity so you don’t rebel.
I was a very good girl."
In some ways, though, Jamie Lee Curtis has been reinventing herself for a very long time.
