Q 13

PLAYBOY: What's the second-best thing about your body?

Jamie Lee Curtis: What's the first? [Pauses] My eyes are. My toes are pretty great, too. Cute. Like little hands.

Q 14

PLAYBOY: How do women make friends?

Jamie Lee Curtis: Many are made at school, where there's a lot of bonding because of the hormonal changes. You end up in little groups, going, "Is this happening to you, too?" Plus, you're shielding yourself from boys. Then you discover boys and end up spending so much time with your lover that your friendships with girls change drastically. I'm going through that now.

Q 15

PLAYBOY: What's the best advice a woman has ever given you?

Jamie Lee Curtis: My mother told me to be true to who I am. Dealing with everyone's expectations of who I was supposed to be was my biggest burden. For example, when I first became intimate with men, I heard that if you don't make love six times a day, something is wrong with you. Now I'm trying to throw all those expectations--external and internal--out.

Q 16

PLAYBOY: How do you pack? What do you always take with you?

Jamie Lee Curtis: I'm an amazing packer. I've even got pictures of me packing for a European tour I did to promote Trading Places. Pretty funny. I always overpack if someone else is going to carry my bags. If I have to carry them, I underpack. I carry only basic things, and always in black. When black gets dirty, I just clean it with a lint brush. I always take tennis shoes, because I wear them with dresses and I have a terrible back anyway. I've learned how to pack cashmere in tissue paper so it doesn't wrinkle. That's a good tip. I'm just very organized and I have everything in plastic bags--underwear in one, something else in another. Now I'm thinking about reading this one day and wondering who cares if I put my underwear in a plastic bag. I also unpack wherever I stop, even if it's just for a day. Everything goes into drawers. I'm usually very neat--though I tend to litter horribly around my airplane seat.

Q 17

PLAYBOY: What are your home-improvement skills and what have you done with them?

Jamie Lee Curtis: I've laid tile. I've refinished furniture. I'm handy with a hammer and nails. Stripping wallpaper is a nightmare. Once you start, you do not finish until you're finished. But I like to do things myself. If a jar needs opening, I don't like to ask someone else to do it. I'll do everything in my power to get it open before I turn to Chris and go, "Honey?"

Q 18

PLAYBOY: Your personal corporation is called Kid Curtis. What are some of the names you considered and rejected?

Jamie Lee Curtis: Invisible Ink. Flat Feet. Or was it Knock-Kneed?

Q 19

PLAYBOY: What kind of role would you like to play that you suspect you will never be offered?

Jamie Lee Curtis: Royalty. I was brought up in Beverly Hills and was privy to a certain brand of royalty. I say royalty because it best covers someone with real clout, upbringing and class--a thoroughbred. I don't think I'd be the spot-on choice for the role, though, because I don't dress like royalty or hang out with them. But I have insights. Not to name-drop--like "I know Julio"--but I've had dinner with the Khashoggis. Their sense of reality is different from ours.

Q 20

PLAYBOY: What is the most ridiculous notion of the Eighties?

Jamie Lee Curtis: That sleeves on jackets are supposed to be pushed up above your elbows. I don't get it. The greatest invention of the Eighties, however, is Tenax. We're a mousse generation. The stuff is like drugs. I'm trying to quit right now.