you know ladies and gentlemen from A Fish Called Wanda A very funny fine film to True
Lies our first guest is certainly a big time Motion Picture star but she also has a best-selling
uh writer uh whose new book is entitled tell me again about the night I was born it is
now in bookstore's ladies and gentlemen here is Jamie Lee Curtis [Applause] [Music] foreign
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by the way just so you know in America it's going to be hard to read this Polaroid and
you won't be able to they they have it cold in here for some reason why do you like it
we like to keep our comedy fresh is that why I was so curious because it's 44 degrees in
here and I actually had somebody take a photograph of the thermostat to prove it and unfortunately
you can't really see the 40 feet right in there tight on this shot here we go there's
two oh yeah there it is yes
it's not 40.
it's balmy in here today it's very very comfortable very very pleasant basically if I start shivering
or turn blue because I'd actually turned but I'm actually very cold person I feel fine
you're ready to go it's invigorating
I know you don't like gifts I don't know I'm not allowed to touch your neck you don't like
gifts here's one well no I understand it's like a surprise party I just brought you I
could just I literally flew in the Concord yesterday from England where I've been shooting
a movie uh again and the same movie again it's a long story anyway wait a minute what
it's called Wanda the sequel we could have been went back and re-shot kind of a lot but
but that's okay because we made it better yeah but it's good but the point is that I
just flew in I'm very tired I'm tired
but I brought you a gift my gift is this this was my driver in London everybody is a driver
it's fabulous is it Roy really everybody in London has a driver man that's cool in the
movie business oh and then Paul I'm sorry and it's lovely and his name is Roy Clark
I've known him for a long time
he's driving in London now did you hear that on it's sad I had no idea why
this made me laugh all right it's the biggest Kleenex I've ever seen in my life it is wait
it's Kleenex for men and wait a minute
for men size strength man's eye softness man size reliability now
take a look at how big these boys are I actually know that I know that both people came over
on boats this is a man's eyes Kleenex we're actually smaller than this this is terrifying
to me and I think you should open it all right let's take a look at them this is a man now
what is
now it's enormous like a hanky but I don't get it it's like a twin sheet it's really
like a king bed look at that like a pocket square look at that that's
nice
and the man-sized kleenex they also have travel size at and little mini ones this is the biggest
without question the biggest Kleenex I've ever laid up they're for men yeah of course
big big men with their big big noses they're big giant runny noses uh so you know now when
you were on the show in London when we were on the show in London which is like a year
and a half ago you were working on that movie and now you went back to do some more on that
movie I went back and did some more and and but everything is okay that's a good thing
for you yes we made it better and you have your uh book this is your second book right
in most stores now it is in bookstores what do you hear come here you have a bad name
no I'm having trouble tell us about oh you don't believe me if you get me started about
talking about my name
is truly it's a very complicated system of pulleys and counterbalances and cables the
people from the Mayo Clinic come in to spot me
I work with a lot of double face tape
road flares
and traffic cones and somehow even with my broken neck I'm able to have sex
Jamie Lee Curtis is here uh Pete Sampras uh John Mellencamp now Jamie Lee
the lovely it's a lovely book the artwork on the book is very very appealing and I would
guess the reason the book is a success no that's not true it is true I wrote a beautiful
text but this illustrator Laura Cornell has made this book so funny and so fabulous does
she do a lot of books this woman do we know where is she well known in the world my first
book she did this book she does some books with Leah cameko she is this book was given
back to me by her as a gift by drawing these pictures they're so fabulous it's a book about
it just so in case anybody wants to know it's a book about how a family is born through
adoption my children are adopted and the book is really a celebration of how
it's it's a chance for uh me to lift a little bit of the veil of mystery that that surrounds
adoption and and just let people know that it's a joyful happy fabulous way that this
one family is born and it's great and it's the best thing I've ever done and I'm happy
that you let me talk about it well I'm sure and and but and I now have a new baby congratulations
I now have uh when I wrote this I had one child my daughter Annie who's in bed now had
a first day of school um and now today's your first day of school today was I missed thank
you bad mommy um but I have a baby boy I have a I have a six month old little man named
Tom whose nickname is Chuck and can you guess why
he's a puker
we call him the Duke of hurl wow this peptic is he he's a heaver and what is uh is this
common with all kids his age or just well they I think they used to refer to it as spitting
up oh sure well guess what it's not spitting up it's even really yes you just and it and
you know it's happening too people clear out it's cool and he'll uh outgrow that I know
in Paul's case it hasn't happened but he might excuse me I'm sorry men I think men particularly
have problems with children puking going right there the man says puker in your family I
don't think I used a couple of these man-sized tissues to wipe up some of that man-sized
puke you could use diapers for having sex I have believe me but but it's interesting
because men don't like puke nor do they like poop it's real interesting so women are so
fascinated with their children's bowel movements and
foreign
screaming into the night and women sit there studying it you know that because it happens
to be
uh somebody's thinking about her next children's book
got it all ready to go
it means that they're working yeah I know yeah sure yeah yeah I didn't realize that
men tended not to be fascinated and how could you not and and women tended to be fascinated
I didn't know that but perhaps that's a maternal kind of thing you may be right maybe yeah
uh the the book you're going to be in a uh you're signing the book here in New York City
tomorrow tonight actually Barnes Noble tonight at Barnes Noble a lovely piece I work tonight
at Barnes Noble earlier tonight tell me again tell me again about the night I was born there
it is
thank you very much good to see you again congratulations on the book the baby and the
movie that's fine Jamie Lee Curtis let us know we'll be right back
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