Sideshow: Jamie Lee Curtis embraces maturity

"I want to be older," says iconoclast

Jamie Lee Curtis

, who poses shirtless - and with gray hair - on the cover of AARP The Magazine. (She's shown wading in water up to her chest.)

So, she says she wants to be older? "I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older," says Curtis, who turns 50 on Nov. 22. "I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy."

Curtis lives with her husband, filmmaker and satirist

Christopher Guest

, and their two kids.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré

, the professional ingenue who allegedly dallied with New York Gov.

Eliot Spitzer

, explains why five years ago - when she was reportedly only 17 - she decided to pose nude for a

Girls Gone Wild

vid (

not

to be confused with the Irish literary musical review,

Girls Gone Wilde

).

"You might as well show off what you have before you don't have it any more!" Ashley told the Palm Beach Post at the time, deftly laying bare her neo-

Epicurean,

para-

Nietzsche

an, post-

Jim Morrison

ian philosophy of life.

Coming on the heels of rock 'n' horror superhero

Rob Zombie

's remake of

Halloween

, German helmer

Marcus Nispel

(

Pathfinder

) is in pre-production on a remake of 1980's

Friday the 13th

. The Hollywood Reporter says the flick, due out Friday, Feb. 13, '09, will star

Jared Padalecki

, from the CW's awesome supernatural show,

Supernatural

, as The Good Guy who investigates the havoc and mayhem wrought by Jason.

Henry Cavill

, who is often seen cavorting in the nude on Showtime's

The Tudors

, has been tapped to star in

Woody Allen

's untitled next picture. The Hollywood Reporter says Cavill will play a dude who's been set up on a date with

Evan Rachel Wood

's character by her mother. Sadly, Cavill faces a grave challenge: Sex bomb

Larry David

will play his romantic rival, who also has the hots for Wood.

Ever wonder what criteria Hollywood's heavyweight thesps use to pick their parts?

Renée Zellweger

says it's a difficult process, since "so many variables play into it." But it's not always so hard to choose. "If I see a script that says 'close-up on [breast] first shot,' I'll probably say pass to that."

Courteney Cox

and her husband,

David Arquette

, have mobilized a group of friends to help raise $1 mil in just two weeks for epidermolysis bullosa, a debilitating genetic skin disease that mostly affects children. (It causes the skin to blister at the slightest touch.)

Celebs who have agreed to donate cash

and

lend their faces and names to promote research on EB include

Jennifer Aniston

,

Orlando Bloom

,

Kate Beckinsale

,

Rashida Jones

,

James Marsden

and

Eva Longoria Parker

.

Citing tax filings, the Huffington Post says that in '06 alone,

Brad Pitt

and

Angelina Jolie

gave $8 million to various charities, including Doctors Without Borders, Global AIDS Alliance, and the Daniel Pearl Foundation.