Jamie Lee Curtis starred in John Carpenter's Halloween as teenager Laurie Strode.
Roberta Allen is a short story writer , novelist , memoirist , conceptual artist , sculptor , photographer , and creative writing instructor .. Language has been the inspiration for both her writing and her art .. In her conceptual works - which include drawings , collages , artist books , photo / text works , installations and digital prints - she explores how text informs or changes our perception of images , often with more than a hint of humor and a philosophical bent .. With dark humor , her books present characters at odds with themselves and others , sometimes in exotic locales .