Jamie Lee Curtis brings 'Halloween Kills' to Venice fest.

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Jamie Lee Curtis brings 'Halloween Kills' to Venice fest.
Jamie Lee Curtis, buoyantly upbeat, was honored at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday with a premiere screening of “Halloween Kills” and presented with an honorary Golden Lion for career achievement.
Curtis, the daughter of ‘50s-era Hollywood royalty Janet Leigh (“Psycho”) and Tony Curtis (“Some Like It Hot”), was 18 when she made her film debut in the now-classic “Halloween.” As teenage babysitter Laurie Strode she alone survived a massacre by knife-wielding masked sociopath Michael Myers.
“I have played the same character for 43 years,” Curtis, 62, noted.
“I think that’s unprecedented.”
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“Halloween” is one of a trio of film Curtis cited as career favorites.
The others are the cult comedy “A Fish Called Wanda” and James Cameron’s action comedy “True Lives.”

She amended that to add a fourth: “Trading Places, the Eddie Murphy comedy that changed her career, freeing her from being limited to a horror scream queen.

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