Curtis to receive fest’s lifetime award
The Venice Film Festival will present its lifetime achievement award this year to Jamie Lee Curtis, the American actor best known for her decadeslong run in the “Halloween” slasher franchise.
Curtis will pick up the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Sept. 8, when the latest installment, “Halloween Kills,” is screened. The film festival runs from Sept. 1 to 11.
Curtis’ film career was launched in 1978 with the now-classic “Halloween.” The daughter of Hollywood royalty Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Curtis went on to other star turns, including in “A Fish Called Wanda” and “True Lies.”
In a statement released by festival organizers, Curtis said she couldn’t believe she had been acting long enough to deserve a lifetime achievement.
She also said she was honored to receive the award at the same time a new chapter of Laurie Strode’s quest to vanquish the masked Michael Meyers is coming out.
“Halloween — and my partnership with Laurie Strode — launched and sustained my career, and to have these films evolve into a new franchise that is beloved by audiences around the world was, and remains, a gift,” she said.
Festival director Alberto Barbera said Curtis’ fourdecade career as well as her work as a children’s book author and commitment to charitable causes put her in “that rarefied group of Hollywood actors who best reflect the qualities that are the very soul of the global film industry and its legacy.”
Goldberg facing sciatica issues:
Following a weeklong hiatus from “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg returned to the daytime talk show Tuesday and
revealed to the audience and her co-hosts that she is using a walker due to lingering sciatica issues.
“I was out because I was dealing with something called sciatica, which is basically a bulging disc in your back, and it impacts the sciatic nerve, which sends pain down your leg,” Goldberg said.
In comedic fashion, the 65-year-old compared the pain to a “bad boyfriend who came back to mess with me.”
Actor Damon dies: Actor Stuart Damon, 84, who played Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the daytime soap “General Hospital,” has died. The veteran TV star died Saturday after struggling with renal failure and other “compounding issues” in recent years, said his son Christopher Damon.
Christopher said his dad relished his three decades on the long-running American
soap opera. He joined the show in 1977 and was on until 2008, but returned for guest appearances in 2011 and 2013. Christopher said his dad was very proud of the 1999 Daytime Emmy he won for his work on a story line that followed Quartermaine’s addiction to hydrocodone.
Stuart Damon got his start on Broadway and was also in the 1965 television remake of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Cinderella,” playing the prince opposite Lesley
Ann Warren.
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