I just can''t reconcile the fact that Christopher Guest is married to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Read or watch some interviews. They are both self absorbed and think very highly of themselves, and they are pretty intolerant to boot. I recall reading interviews with Guest about his mockumentaries and he would practically froth if you used the word "mockumentary" around him. He would make it clear he had contempt for the groups he was featuring in his films while the PR for the movies would say it was all lighthearted and in good fun. His comments about folk singers were particularly rude.

Then, of course, there are the perpetual rumors that they are bearding for each other.

Well, gee, OP, 30 years ago Christopher Guest was a brilliant, hilarious, not great looking young guy with a brilliant, hot, hilarious young wife who had one of the hottest bodies in Hollywood.

30 years later, he's a brilliant, hilarious, not great looking middle aged guy with a brilliant, hot, hilarious middle aged wife who still has a smoking hot body.

I should think we would be talking about how lucky he is and how we respect him for not dumping her for some young bimbo. Instead, you think he's selling himself short.

What can we take from this, OP?

YOU SUCK!

OP, are you by any chance the same idiot who is insisting on DL that Greg Louganis looks like shit?

Jamie Lee is "hilarious"? Oh, dear.

R3 are you the same idiot who doesn't know how to use trolldar, queen? P.S. I think Mr. Louganis looks FINE. Now OFF you go.....

But what about her penis?

[quote]THIS is the woman who has held his interest for almost 3 decades!?!?"

Of course it never occurred to you OP that maybe she is the catch.

I think they're pretty evenly matched. She was much hotter than him when the started dating, anyway. And while you could argue he has more talent than her, it's not like he's Shakespeare. Besides, who picks their mate based on their professional talent? Some do, I'm sure, but it's not like this is the standard for every relationship.

Isn't he kind of a one trick pony

They were both in first class on an AA flight with a trolly-dolly friend of mine and he said she was certifiably nuts. She put napkins on her head and did loud Gumby impressions to entertain their young daughter the whole time. I know this won't sound too terribly nuts now, but at the time he was really disturbed by her antics and disconnect with reality. My friend also thought they were both gay.

More details, please, R10. If she hadn't entertained her daughter, would he have thought she was nuts, too?

Monty Python Gumby or cute green humanoid Gumby?

I'd still love to see her pop up in one of his films.

I thought he was married to Liza Minnelli.

"They were both in first class on an AA flight with a trolly-dolly friend of mine and he said she was certifiably nuts."

Gay men are so prejudiced about women, that their opinions can hardly be taken seriously.

[quote]He produces such brilliant film work %0D %0D No, he doesn't. He produces uneven films greatly enhanced by lucky casting.%0D %0D And to answer your question, I imagine they talk about the same things any couple talks about. Activia was a JOB, for christ's sake. %0D %0D OP = one more frau wannabe that can't tell the difference between life and what it sees on television.

r1 = mediocre folk singer.

Well, they have 2 kids. They probably talk about typical parent stuff. She recently lost her dad, with whom she had a complicated relationship, and maybe he's helping her get through that. Sometimes it's annoying when someone knows you that well inside and out, sometimes it's a comfort.

He seems really, really, really gay to me.

R15?

Dear?

[quote] "Activia was a JOB, for christ's sake. "

Thanks for clearing that up for us R16, so we're guessing that Mr. Guest's film work was gratis?

Uhm, no.

Is the OP serious or just a dumb troll? Does he or she think that the minute a gray hair appears the thrill is gone? Jamie Lee Curtis is far from unattractive. Does this doofus think that Christopher Guest should have dumped her years ago for a blonde, big-breasted bimbo a few decades his junior? Maybe they actually love each other. I somehow get the feeling that the OP has no comprehension of such a thing.

If you listen to the commentaries on his movies' DVDs, he's dour, superior and just plain unpleasant. Eugene Levy usually does them with him and sounds like he knows what's going on, being over-jolly in an attempt to make it a fun experience for the listener.

R22, you're an idiot, dear. No where is [bold]anything [/bold] posted regarding Jamie Lee's youth or "beauty". Only her lack of talent.

Reading comprehension much, frausowcuntgunt?

Ricky Gervais interviewed Guest for his series of interviews with his comic heroes. Gervais clearly worshipped him and was extremely diffident. Guest seemed really "off" to me. I couldn't tell if he was deadpan or just kind of rude and oblivious.

Interesting series, by the way. Gervais had some awkward moments with Garry Shandling who seemed like a huge douche.

Larry David and Gervais seemed to get along really well, and David seemed like a surprisingly nice and cheerful guy (considering George Constanza is based on him).

Ricky Gervais is scheduled to show up on the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, so it makes sense that they got along so well.

He probably has Aspergers. He was just some dork on Saturday Night Live. Jamie Lee Curtis was extremely funny in those Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures movies. She also MORE than held her own against Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places and saved that movie with Arnold Schwhatever and made it a hit. She was great in Freaky Friday and pulls other drecky movies into the enjoyable column.

She is always gracious with fans and she did a layout in some magazine to show how much bullshit airbrushing and makeup was. Imagine if she'd been cast in Groundhog Day instead of Andie McDowell. What the fuck do you want from her?

I've seen her a few times at "Out of the Closet" in WLA. She's really cool. Not that it means anything, but I never got even a slight dyke vibe from her. Actually, she looks like a typical Westside soccer mom.

[quote]No, he doesn't. He produces uneven films greatly enhanced by lucky casting.

Also by spending months shooting footage and then taking a year and a half to edit it.

Casting is a major part of directing a film. He gets people who want to work with him, collaborates with them intensely, and then edits it down to very funny movies. This is a guy who has a stable of comic actors like Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, and many many others. He may be strange/not nice/damaged, but some of his movies are total keepers.

Jamie Lee herself has said he doesn't suffer fools gladly.

JLC would have been a much better choice than AMcD in GHD.

"I thought he was married to Liza Minnelli."

So did he, for a few years.

Do you ever consider the fact that they are still in love?

"Gervais had some awkward moments with Garry Shandling who seemed like a huge douche."

He IS a huge douche-from personal experience. Worked on one of his shows.

"you're an idiot, dear. No where is anything posted regarding Jamie Lee's youth or "beauty". Only her lack of talent.%0D %0D Reading comprehension much, frausowcuntgunt."%0D %0D Oh blow it out your lonely asshole, you pathetic loser fucktard. %0D %0D The statement "THIS is the woman who has held his interest for almost 3 decades!?!?" says it all. The implication is clear: how could Christopher Guest be with such a woman as Jamie Lee Curtis, a woman who's dumb and not attractive. Well, the fact is that she is not dumb and not unattractive. The OP has shit for brains and so do you. Now do us all a favor: piss off and die.

R37, you are a vile piece of trash.

[quote]Casting is a major part of directing a film. He gets people who want to work with him, collaborates with them intensely, and then edits it down to very funny movies. %0D %0D Oh, please. Most of these films were improvised by the cast. "Collaborates with them intensely" (did you mean "intensively"?) = sketches something out and turns the camera on more talented people.%0D %0D Even the movies that are "keepers" don't quite measure up to real film comedies where writing and acting and directing were ALL firing on all cylinders. The whole mockumentary conceit is a crutch for a "filmmaker" who hasn't got much in the way of actual writing and directing skills.

Jamie Lee Curtis is Jewish?

Get a blog, OP, for your dumbass brain-poopery.

I think these two have long discussions on how to invest the money the Activia commercials are generating. When they're run, it happens several thousand times a day across the country so those residuals must be a wonderful cash cow, that most who only watch could not begin to comprehend.

[quote]Look OP, they're Jews. Lowering herself to do Activa commercials is nothing to her. Money is money with them, no matter where it comes from. If someone offers her a good paycheck to do an incontinence commercial you can damn sure bet she'll be up there showing her shitty underpants right on camera.

Stop being a cunt, she won't do Horror Autograph Shows and she could get $50 a signature easy and thousands would wait on line hours for her too.

Christopher Guest is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest

It's pretty well known that Christopher Guest is an uptight asshole.%0D %0D I've heard mostly middling-to-positive things about his wife.

I like to name nuts. Peanut. Walnut.%0D %0D %0D

R27 & R30 nailed it.

He is married to Lady Hayden-Guest.

He loves her precisely because she eats so much yoghurt.

a - she's regular

b- no yeast infections

I can smell R36's cunt from here.....

r46, She told me to stop naming nuts. Macadamia nut. Pecan nut.

FU r37...

R40 her father was Jewish.

Any verificatia on Jamie Lee's sizemeat?

TIA!

[quote] Jamie Lee Curtis is Jewish?

Half Jewish

It sure wasn't for Christ's sake.

Does that mean she's circumcised?

True Jewdom is only awarded to those born of a Jewish mother. Janet Leigh was as WASPy as you can get.

I agree with R30 and R39 both, strange as it seems. The cast he assembled is terrific and indicative of an eye for talent, but on the same token the cast often comes up with dialogue if not actual plot direction.

And I don't know how well Guest even works with them. In the commentary for "Mighty Wind," Guest complains pretty bitterly that Fred Willard showed up with the douchey hairstyle you see in the film without consulting Guest first. When Willard shows up, Guest moans, "Oh, here we go..." while Levy tries to joke and be upbeat. The hairstyle was perfect, by the way, and Willard nailed that part. Sure, he may be irritating -- by all accounts he is as spazzy on the set as Howie Morris was -- but when you get that kind of solid performance needed for your ensemble piece, WHY would you go bitching about it in the commentary like that? Unprofessional and rude.

No r58 that is only true for the Orthodox Jews.

I can't picture Christopher Guest spinning a dreidel for some reason.

The shrimp-dicked, brain-damaged fairy at R50 is a particularly sad example of the damage that occurs when an expectant mother won't lay off the cigarettes, beer and crystal meth during her pregnancy.

You are such an asshole

Jamie Lee is 55 years old. I always thought her "beauty" was overstated and oversold, even in her prime, when she had that incredibly fit, somewhat masculine body. She looks okay, but with the short, steel-gray hair and lined face, about 5-10 years older than she is. And she maintains a defiantly non-glamorous image in an unforgiving industry where more accomplished actresses are fighting over scraps.

Hence the embarrassing ACTIVIA ads, and the occasional guest spot on TV as someone's mom.

It's not as if Guest has ever included Jamie Lee in one of his movies, either. So much for her "hilarity."

She saw him in a magazine in the '80s and said "This is going to be my husband." If only we all had that kind of go-get-'em confidence.

I agree with R27 and R32. I could never understand how Andy McDowell go the lead in three entertaining movies, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Michael, and Groundhog Day. She can't act. I assumed she was sleeping with a director or producer, but there was no common thread in those three movies, in terms of the teams behind them.

Guest IS Jewish though I'm sure he's an atheist. It is hard to imagine them as a couple. She seems annoying perky but maybe he's very dour and her very perkiness is what he likes. He seems overly cerebral and tormented, she seems like a dingbat. Maybe that's refreshing for him.

Jamie Lee Curtis is hilarious. How is that even a question?

[quote]but maybe he's very dour

By all accounts, he's a very bitter, grouchy man. Why are all great comedians such gloomy assholes?

Once again, TITS!

JLC is a CUNT to anyone beneath her (my friends have experienced this first hand. She's in a league of her own.) She's Hollywood royalty and a former magazine beauty. She had money and status for days, especially attractive to someone wanting to be in Hollywood.

IMO he was just as an ambitious and self absorbed curmudgeon as she was. They probably are soul mates and each other's match in terms of talent and humorless ego.

He might like the hole & the pole!

I can relate.

R67 his grandfather converted to Judaism before marrying his second wife then recanted later. His parents are atheist and he's atheist so there's very little if any Jewish connection there.

He had an affair with me over Purim.

I thought (R37) said it perfectly.

Fortunately, you don't have to.

I just can't reconcile the fact that Christopher Guest is married to a Fish called Jamie.

It's always a big red flag when they decide to adopt children instead of having biological ones. It can mean they are in an arranged marriage and are not having sex. Like Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews who have plenty of gay rumours and have two adopted Vietnamese daughters. Jamie has been seen hitting on Asian women before so I wouldn't be surprised if she and Guest are bearding.

Thanks for bumping this old thread to explain your theory that two rich celebrities were *squints* forced into an arranged marriage.

Jamie is infertile...that’s why they adopted children. No big deal there. On her A&E Biography show, she said she’d adopt because she knew that she wouldn’t be able to have children. She didn’t give a reason why, she simply stated a fact.

Is she intersex or not? The rumor has been around forever and I really want to know. She looks male and her boobs are clearly fake.

Well then it must be true R80. Celebrities always tell the truth.

I remember reading online that people with AIS have a certain body type - long arms and legs. Jamie has that type of body.

What's AIS?

What a difference a few years make. Before Scream Queens, Curtis was in a career rut.

R83 She has a man’s pelvis. No hips.

OK, I have to ask again: what does %OD stand for?

Christopher Guest's films are sometimes very funny and are clearly the work of a screaming queen. I mean, is this not clear? What the sexual dynamics are between him and JLC I do not know....I imagine they find each other amusing, for one thing.

About 5-10 years ago I walked right behind Jamie at a local Trader Joe's. I got a look at her hips because she was right there in front of me. In fact she has a great and perky derriere and narrowl but very curvaceous hips. No matter who she was, you would probably notice what an unusually shapely figure she has. So whoever thinks she is hipless is just wrong. (Am a straight female by the way--I was a little jealous). At least at that time, she was a very attractive woman. I've also seen Chris Guest on the street. If he's gay, he's the schlubbiest gay in the world. He was with 1 or 2 other guys--they were dressed like typical movie crew guys--ill-fitting jeans and T-shirts, etc., not even remotely stylish. I did tell him I was a fan as I passed (because I am--at least of the first couple of movies). If I recall, he said thanks or smiled. Didn't seem particularly rude or friendly.

Jamie can be funny with a good script, but I sometimes find her annoying in interviews where she'll keep repeating a joke of hers when it doesn't get a big laugh after the first time she tells it. For some reason, people like that rub me the wrong way. The joke didn't work, move on. Stop trying to make it happen. I respect people who bomb and then move on from it and say "hey, maybe they weren't the right audience for this joke."

All in all, I adore her and Guest. I think they're both wonderfully talented and have given us some great films and great performances. I also have to admire Jamie for going natural and aging into a lovely older woman. I think that might be one of the reasons why this new Halloween was such a hit - she's one of the first women in her late 50's/early 60's who looks her age and owns it and isn't trying to look 30 years younger.

R84 - Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.

The boobs at R70 are not fake.

They have a natural teardrop effect/droop. Implants don't look that natural in 2018, never mind back in 1983.

Janet Leigh had huge natural tits that Jamie inherited.

I’m Janet Leigh, and these are my breasts...

my Breasts

Janet Leigh was cute but never a great beauty, and as she aged, her features took on a hard look that Jamie Lee was born with.

You can even see a lot of Jamie Lee's face in hers when she was young.

I always thought Janet Leigh was very beautiful. And Jamie Lee definitely inherited her mother's rack. I'm not even straight, but I remember seeing Jamie's boobs in Trading Places and going like "woah! Those are nice!"

R87, the line break on old threads (this one is from 2011) turned into a %OD when DL switched to a new format about three years ago. What you're seeing is what's supposed to be a blank line between paragraphs.

She's a man, baby!!

Sorry, she has admitted the boobs are fake, she had Lipo on thighs, etc. It was obvious when she got them, the tabs were all over it. She was completely flat and got them to play Dorothy Stratton. I'm on phone, but google before and after.

Murial Hemingway got the boob surgery for Bob Fossey 's Star 80 the movie. Jamie did the TV version of Dorothy's life with her real boobs.

Awe what's the matter OP? Hate straight women THAT much? What does he see in her? I know you're wrapped up in LOOKS but actually step outside of yourself. She's very funny, she doesn't take herself seriously. And she is attractive. I know, she's OLLLLLLD lol to a lot of you. Sorry OP, he's straight.

Her boobs are real.

Even if she has AIS, the boobs could be real. People with AIS can look like supermodels: Long legs and arms, thick hair, good skin, big boobs. But they are sterile and chromosomally male.

r19 Ya think? Corky St. Clair, The Olympic Synchronized Swim Choreographer, even his Spinal Tap character was gay. Effortlessly gay.

I remember listening to the writer/producer commentary on the Spinal Tap episode of The Simpsons, and they all implied--without saying it outright--that Guest was a prick to work with.

I guess Mr. Guest likes the hole [italic]and[/italic] the pole....

Did he have a lot of takers clamoring for him??

There are several different varieties of AIS. Jamie Lee might have an overdeveloped clitoris, a micropenis, or something in-between. Assuming the doctor's didn't 'correct' the condition when she was an infant and cut off whatever she had down there. They used to almost always do that with intersexed infants.

Who are her past boyfriends? I guess none of them have ever shared about her nethers?

It's just so strange that she's so tight-lipped about this (If she even HAS lips down there)

I also notice how precise Guest’s facial expressions where as the swim coach and Corky - it’s hard to believe a straight guy would pick up those nuances, unless he happens to have a lot of gay “friends.”

Well, most straight men aren't going to talk about the fact that their ex-girlfriend had a penis, even if it was a very small one.

Or, if they did some kind of corrective surgery on her when she was an infant, her genitalia might look reasonably female.

Several sources say Jamie had an affair with Jodie Foster. I know they are good friends. Jamie's name in the 1999 movie Virus was Kit Foster which is also the name of one of Jodie Foster's son.