Late one night about a year ago, Jamie Lee Curtis was falling asleep when the phone startled her. It was her agent calling. Just days before shooting, he told her, Annette Bening had to drop out of Disney's forthcoming remake of the 1976 body-swapping classic "Freaky Friday." "Oh, and now I suppose they're offering it to me?" Curtis asked, rolling her eyes. Yes, he said. "Come on," she replied, laughing. "Why are you really calling me?" Let's not sugarcoat this: Jamie Lee Curtis hasn't been working much these past few years. Since starring alongside California politico Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1994's "True Lies," her best acting job―aside from cell-phone commercials―has been in "Halloween: H20," in which she lamely revived the character she made famous in John Carpenter's original 1978 slasher flick. Just last August, during an appearance on the "Today" show to plug the latest of her five best-selling children's books, Curtis talked about her film career in the past tense. It was over, she told Matt Lauer.
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