our first guest tonight is uh one female star is one of the biggest
hits uh let's try this again our first guest is the female star of one of the
biggest hits of the summer True Lies and I'm not going to lie to you this woman carries the
entire movie Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome our old friend Jamie Lee Curtis
man I'm telling you something that that is one happening dress
thank you look I haven't seen you in a long time you look you look great you
look I gave you a big major look oh dude really I gave him a kiss with my Kelly
LeBrock lips oh thank you very much and I'll go with the one Ed gave me earlier
look at that that looks great doesn't it you may keep it I am never gonna wash that one off
I haven't seen you in five or six years and you look terrific 10 years since you've been 11. you
look terrific and I'm guessing you you always look terrific don't you everybody tells you how great
you look hey I'll leave now um tell me I look actually there was a time when I was going to take
my daughter to you know the doctor just because your daughter my daughter now is seven she was
two and a half at the time great I'm walking down the hall and this guy walks up and goes like this
you it's you you and I'm like yeah yeah right and I'm trying to get past him because you know
I'm with my daughter I want to be a little productive and he goes no no you don't get
it it's you I said yes I know thank you very much I'm with my daughter I'm just taking her to the
doctor he says you get it my girlfriend you oh oh trouble excuse me morning flag my daughter
to the doctor you're thinking that you want to sit you don't understand my girlfriend is having
a nose job and she has a picture of you with her and she's just down the hole with the doctor
now had I been brave or smart or certainly smarter than I was on that day I could have
brought my daughter to the doctor and then could you imagine if I'd walked in that would be great
can you imagine if I'd walked in and then maybe like hid behind a piece of glass and
then the guy said okay honey you can sit up look at your nose and I was just sort of sitting there
or no so you know it's one of those things I'm sure you probably have these experiences maybe
you haven't had one here where a woman no not like well no you you don't come back
with that great comeback when you should you know like I should have at that time anyway
you know no it never happened
but you know what you could do you know for a little extra money and maybe as a joke either
you could stand in there with a doctor and work as a model so the doctor has the woman out cold
just like that working on her nose and then just have a good look yeah just taking care of it yeah
now speaking of your parents your father of course who's been on the show many times Tony Curtis nice
guy wonderful man was he fun to have as a dad or was he just a little too Goofy for kids Richard
Lewis used to joke me that my dad would say Kent talk to you now honey I'm fencing Kirk Douglas
it's funnier when Richard does it you can imagine and your mother Janet Lee and so
were they helpful to you in your career did you know from the very beginning you had no choice
but to be an actress in a movie star I was always sort of a ham but no I mean I you know I worked
my way up I was a contract player at Universal at the beginning of my career and what kind of
stuff were you doing there I did a TV series Operation Petticoat I did I did some TV work
but then I am probably the only I am probably the only actress working today in the movies
who is in you know in a big summer romantic comedy hit who has appeared on Match Game
no no trolley no no I'm not joking at the time I was a network regular on a series and it was
common for you to do game shows I was 18 years old and they would give you like 500
a show I did Match Game I did 50 000 pyramid I did I'm not joking I did the Hollywood Squares
but well no I I believe the match game oh yes the Gene Rayburn show and you have to fill in
the blankets because I'm like you know I'm obnoxious and so they would reprimand me I
would get in trouble because they were all adults and I was the kid and there would be things like
he was all out of spoons so Johnny stirred the punch bowl with his blank and then you know
you know like you know and then you print it in these with these ugly
markers and then you kind of put it down and then you kind of flip it up well well
how how close was Johnny standing to the punch bowl
where's that for you you must be really tickled that this movie has gone through the roof huh
you it's nice to see you it is you're taller than I remember it takes a big man to do this job honey
we got to do a commercial we'll be right back with the vivacious uh Jamie Lee Curtis hey
Jamie Lee Curtis is here Conan O'Brien will also be with us on the program tonight I understand you
just now have uh pretty quickly here a return from vacation well it always happens you know
you finish a movie you do the promotion then you go away that's great a kid and then they
say will you go back on the road so I'm this is an absolutely true story great two days ago I'm
at a lake in a Northwestern location a beautiful pristine Mountain Lake and I was told I was coming
here and I didn't know if they were going to get a plane to get me here in time and I'm at a campsite
and I have to hike to get to a phone it's a pay phone with like a wooden sun with the burned wood
telephone in it right yeah and it's an 18t it's a U.S West phone I can't figure out the phone system
I don't have an ATT card you know whoever made that decision to make it hard to make a phone call
is I could kill them anyway so this is no joke so I'm hiking to get to the phone to find out if they
got the jet to fly me here so I can get back to do another thing for the movie and I find out that I
can and now I have to call my assistant to get her to bring clothes up to where I am all very
complicated now yeah I have to set that up it has to be taken care of with one phone call one phone
right so I'm on the phone and I get her on the phone and I say Laurel hi okay here's what I need
and I'm hiking right I say okay I need my Georgia Armani skirt my blue Georgia money jacket my Dolce
Gabbana shoes and I'm talking like this no no I'm serious meanwhile next to me at the phone next to
me is a guy in a pair of those Patagonia shorts and the and he's got that kind of layer of moss
on him that shows that he's he's got a very a lot of fuzz on his face and I hear him say this
hi yeah it's me yeah I just came back from five months out in the wilderness by myself
I swear to God and then I'm on the other line going no no Dolce Gabbana
d-o-l-c-e and then I want the Pamela dentist the short black one with the
Sparkles and he says it's so wild I've become completely nocturnal
you know I go to bed like at five in the morning because the stars in the moon are so bright and
he and I are looking at each other it was the wildest conversation polar opposite and now I
am you know and then now I'm here with you it would have been funny if the guy says I've been
in the wilderness for five months I'm gonna need my beaded handbag a Giorgio Armani dress
we were both cracking up because it was just um the moments like that are great
great it was just perfect you seem like you're having the time of your life you
seem like maybe I am good for you uh I ain't leaving you don't try to kick me out okay okay
I'm staying make yourself cry make yourself
you want to go out to the audience and wrestle with that couple out there
you want to hang around you can hang around it would be I don't know I have to
all right well I'm sorry you're leaving it would have been fun to have you here the entire night
thank you congratulations on the film it's called a True Lies it's a romantic comedy
action drama Adventure trying to save the world nuclear blowing up device comedy romantic Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger Direct by Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Cameron Jim Cameron of course and stars Tom
um Tom come tell Tom Arnold Tom Arnold Tom Arnold of course like
we're playing password Here did I get it right is it it's Tom Arnold isn't it yeah
yeah nice to see you Jamie Lee Curtis ladies and gentlemen