Jamie Lee Curtis & Star Wars
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It was Christopher Guest, pictured in character from his mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984). She pointed to his face and told her friend, “I’m going to marry that man.” She had no connection to him, no introduction lined up, and no plan beyond that sentence. But three months later, she did exactly that.She reached out to Guest through his agent, leaving her phone number.
He didn’t call for several days. When he finally did, they went out to dinner at Hugo’s restaurant in Los Angeles. Their conversation flowed effortlessly, their humor matched like puzzle pieces, and they shared a quiet confidence that something rare had begun.
Two months after their first date, Christopher Guest proposed. On December 18, 1984, they married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles. Curtis has since said, “It was instinct. Pure and simple.”Their romance grew in quiet corners, away from public drama or spectacle.
Both were grounded by mutual admiration and the ability to make each other laugh. Jamie, known for her performances in "Halloween" (1978), "Trading Places" (1983), and later "True Lies" (1994), found in Guest a partner who thrived in a different creative world. Christopher, with his sharp satire in films like "Waiting for Guffman" (1996) and "Best in Show" (2000), had a dry wit and introspective nature that balanced Jamie’s energetic charm.Jamie once shared a story that summed up their love perfectly.
While she was shooting "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988) in London, she and Guest spent weeks apart. One night, he flew across the Atlantic just to have dinner with her and flew back the next morning. There were no grand gestures for attention, only small, deeply romantic ones that showed unwavering commitment.
That dinner in London, Curtis said, was one of the most intimate moments of her life.The couple adopted two children: Annie, born in 1986, and Thomas, born in 1996. Curtis has spoken often about how becoming a mother changed her sense of purpose and deepened the emotional strength of their relationship.
Their parenting style was united by shared values—honesty, creativity, and structure. Guest, with his calm presence, brought humor and thoughtfulness into the home, while Curtis brought vibrancy and emotional expressiveness.
Together, they created an environment that encouraged their children to be independent yet secure.In 1996, when Guest was elevated to the peerage after the death of his father, he became the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, a hereditary title in the UK. That technically made Curtis a baroness. But she often joked that it meant nothing to her unless it came with a tiara. She preferred a simple life rooted in connection rather than titles or red carpet appearances. Their relationship endured because they always returned to the core of what brought them together—humor, respect, and unwavering belief in each other.
Curtis has spoken candidly about her struggles with addiction and how Guest’s steady presence never wavered. She credited him as one of the anchors who held her hand through recovery, saying, “Chris is someone who doesn’t leave. He stays. He listens. He gives you space when you need it and steps forward when you can’t.”Guest, in his reserved way, once said during a rare interview, “She sees everything in color. I think in sketches. But she fills it in for me.” That difference made them stronger.
They didn’t try to change each other but learned how to support and amplify one another’s best qualities.In a world of fleeting headlines and quick breakups, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest stand out as a quiet, profound love story that began with a magazine photo and grew into a lifelong bond.Even after four decades, Jamie still says, “I married the man I fell in love with at first sight, and I wake up grateful every morning that I get to see his face again.”
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STAR WARS
They’re rare, but they do exist.
The classic example is Alec Guinness. Never a fan of Star Wars, even while making the original film, his royalties from it still made him staggeringly wealthy.
The agreement he ended up signing entitled him to 2.25% of the film’s gross in royalties.
Sound like a pittance?
Come on, this is Star Wars we’re talking about. 2.25% of an ungodly fortune is still an ungodly fortune.
Numbers like these always get messy due to disputes in Hollywood accounting and how precisely to figure out royalty agreements, but:
Star Wars grossed $410 million (not adjusted for inflation, mind you, those are 1977 dollars) in its original theatrical run alone and Guinness got 2.25% off the top. That was a bit under $10 million dollars in 1977 - depending on how you lawyer the royalty agreements, that’s somewhere between $7 million on the lowest end and in the mid-$9 millions on the high end.
Adjusted for inflation the high side estimate we’re talking about is just shy of $49 million today and even on the low end it’s over $32 million. And again, that’s just off the initial theatrical run. It doesn’t count any of the numerous re-releases or any of the money it made on video or television.
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