hen Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur announced the 2023 Academy Award for best supporting actress, Jamie Lee Curtis stood up. She stood up for longevity in an industry that discards women of a certain age like last week’s milk. She stood up for perseverance, having made her film debut four decades earlier. She stood up for diversity, referring to the famous statuette as ‘they/them’ in support of her trans daughter. She stood up for one of the last true lineages to the Golden Age of Hollywood by going one better than her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh —.
