Curtis to receive AARP career award
Jamie Lee Curtis will be this year’s recipient of AARP the Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards career achievement honor.
Curtis will receive the honor at the AARP’s annual Best Movies and TV for Grownups ceremony, the group announced Thursday. Alan Cumming returns to host the ceremony, which will be telecast Feb. 17 on PBS.
“Jamie Lee Curtis’ long-standing, everincreasing career shatters Hollywood’s outmoded stereotypes about aging, and it exemplifies what AARP’s Movies for Grownups program is all about,” AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said in a statement.
Since stepping into the role of Laurie Strode in “Halloween” in 1978, the 64-year-old horror queen starred in her last installment of the slasher series “Halloween Ends” and the blockbuster indie film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” this year.
Curtis is an Emmy nominee and a British Academy Film Award winner. Over the course of her fourdecade career, her films have earned $2.5 billion at the box office, the statement said.
The AARP’s Movies for Grownups program champions movies that resonate with viewers 50 and older, and fights ageism in the entertainment industry.
Harry and Meghan doc footage released:
Footage of an upcoming documentary about Prince Harry and Meghan released Thursday shows the couple ready to tackle the topic of their rift with the British royal family. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their royal duties in 2020 and moved to California.
Netflix released roughly a minute of footage of “Harry & Meghan” that includes photos and brief interview snippets of the couple.
“No one sees what’s happening behind closed doors,” the Duke of Sussex says as a photo of Meghan crying while holding a cellphone is shown.
“When the stakes are this high, doesn’t it make more sense to hear the story from us?” Meghan says as the trailer ends.
The trailer also includes images of the couple in happier times. Netflix is billing the six-part series as “an unprecedented and indepth” look at “one of the most discussed couples in history.”
Rolling Stones to release 2012 live recording:
The Rolling Stones plan to release what the band is calling its “ultimate live greatest hits album” early next year.
“GRRR Live!” contains songs recorded live on
Dec. 15, 2012, at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center. That night saw guest appearances by the Black Keys (“Who Do You Love?”), Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer (“Going Down”), Lady Gaga (“Gimme Shelter”), Mick Taylor (“Midnight Rambler”) and Bruce Springsteen (“Tumbling Dice”).
Shown on pay-per-view in 2012, the concert has not otherwise been available to fans until now. The 24-track collection will be released Feb. 10.
Dec. 2 birthdays: Actor Cathy Lee Crosby is 78. Journalist Stone Phillips is 68. Actor Lucy Liu is 54. Actor Suzy Nakamura is 54. Rapper Treach is 52. Actor Joe Lo Truglio is 52. Singer Nelly Furtado is 44. Singer Britney Spears is 41. Singer Jana Kramer is 39. Actor Daniela Ruah is 39. Actor Alfred Enoch is 34. Singer Charlie Puth is 31.