E! Online Gossip - The Awful Truth. November 2, 2000, by Ted Casablanca
"Short Shrift"
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/Archive2000/001102e.html
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Stars and their costumed kids swept into Santa Monica's 
Barker Hangar for the 7th Annual Dream Halloween, which 
benefited the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation. A fun 
house, tattoos, superheroes scaling walls, a live auction 
and face painting by makeup artists from MAC, which 
sponsored the event, were all part of the event.

Jamie Lee Curtis served as the evening's Witchtress of 
Ceremonies. Dressed as a pink Power Ranger, with her family 
in tow, J.L.C. said she's again hosting, after first being 
invited when Halloween H2O was released. "We thought it was 
a perfect pairing. I knew nothing about the organization or 
the event, and it's one of the greatest events I've ever 
been to," said the charitable chick. "It's fun, it's easy, 
it's helpful and there's a sense of humor about it, which 
for me is four things I'd like to be." 

After starring in so many scary flicks, not much scares the 
queen of screams, except..."AIDS scares me. Drug addiction 
scares me." And Jamie's vote for the scariest person in 
Hollywood? None other than former Moses and NRA chairman 
Charlton Heston.

This being a celebrity gathering, after all, Curtis wasn't 
the only star bringing up politics. Anthony Stewart Head, 
who plays Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, thinks George 
W. Bush is scary. "I'm British, so I can't vote," A.S.H. 
explained, "but he is definitely the scariest person."

Jason Alexander had costume decisions on his mind as he hung 
with his wife and young son. The Seinfeld star was debating 
whether to dress as Frankenstein (his younger son's choice) 
or nothing at all (his older son's choice). "I'll probably 
end up as Frankenstein a block behind him," he shrugged.

But celluloid monsters aren't what Alexander fears. "Real 
life scares me. Open up a New York Times--it's scary from 
one end to the other," J.A. confessed. "I used to really 
love scary movies. Two of my favorite films are The Exorcist 
and The Omen. My first film was actually a horror film, but 
you'll never find it--it was that bad. It was called The 
Burning, and it was Holly Hunter's and Harvey Weinstein's 
first movie."

As for Hollywood's scariest celeb, Alexander was stumped. 
"Wow, very good question, trying to think who I won't piss 
off...Haley Joel Osment. He's a little scary. I directed him 
in his first movie role in For Better or Worse when he was 
five years old, and he was scary back then, too."

(Haley, I'm sure he means scary in a "really good actor" 
way, not a "creepy little ghost-seeing kid" kind of way.) 



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