Kathleen Turner Recounts Journey From Femme Fatale To Drunk

Daily Mail:

They say there are no lessons in how to be a star.

Well, just imagine how little guidance you get about how to be a sexual icon.

I had to figure that one out on the job. Certainly, when I agreed to play a raunchy femme fatale in my first film, Body Heat, I didn't have a clue that it would unleash so much sexual energy.

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Comments

[apollosmom]

07:10 PM on 01/23/2008

Miss Turner, there are people here who feel they must say uncomplimentary things - about you and to each other. How sad that there are some who must attempt to drag others down to their level of misery. I know how hard it is to open yourself up to others, especially strangers. It's a well-known fact that the memoirs of notable personalities frequently help others. It's no one else's business if you make money from your memoirs in the meantime.

I saw you in 1989 or 1990 in Chicago when you were filming scenes for "V. I. Warshawski". You were filming across the street from where I worked and a friend and I went over to watch on our lunch hour. You looked great, we both agreed.

Time passes and people age. I know I don't look like I did 20 years ago. I've been through illness and surgery, and both have taken their toll.

I still think you're a major talent, and as someone else here said, your voice is wonderful. I would know it anywhere. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, Miss Turner. You're doing great!

[vandegrasse]

03:26 PM on 01/21/2008

It's really criminal of Hollywood to deny good roles to older actresses by simply not considering scripts that contain older women. It's as if older women don't exist in Hollywood, as they do elsewhere in America. If Hollywood had been like this in the old days we wouldn't have had the likes of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and countless others. It was bad then...but it's criminal now. Age is a fact of life and it's time Hollywood grew up.

[tinkaboutit]

01:53 PM on 01/21/2008

Empires fall. Nice putting her pic up like that huffpo. as usual you show WAY more class than the mainstream media. /sarcasm

[Judynews]

09:07 AM on 01/21/2008

I look forward to more of this delicious salmagundi of a memoir.

[cinemaven]

10:19 PM on 01/20/2008

I'd love to read the entire book after that snippet. Kathleen Turner is such an impressive talent and there's something about her that just draws your eye when she's onscreen.

"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." ... her Jessica Rabbit is still the best animated female ever to hit the screen!

[SmootyBooty]

03:17 PM on 01/20/2008

She's simply one of the finest actors to ever live. 'nuff said...

[workingboy]

02:29 PM on 01/20/2008

KT, you can't be topped for Body Heat!! Loved you in Serial Mom, particularly when, in front of a SPIRO AGNEW portrait, you clubbed that woman to death for having the bad taste to wear white shoes after Labor Day! Age, illness, ill fortune hit everyone, but remember, you have talent, star quality, and THAT VOICE. You can steal a small scene on Nip/Tuck! Comedy is said to be the most difficult thing to do, and you do it with such ease. Just keep at it! You're special.

[Charity]

01:40 PM on 01/20/2008

READ THE FULL ARTICLE! it's an excerpt from her autobiography.

it's an excellent read, and it clears up some of the bad pub she has had over the years.

kathleen turner has suffered through a debilitating disease and coped as best she could. it's made all the worst because she also is a "celebrity" who is scrutinized far greater than you and i.

while enduring the excruciating pain of RA, she turned to anything that could help her get through it. when she realized that her choice was affecting her relationships and her work, she stopped. it was a long torturous process.

i admire her for telling her story.

and let's not forget that in the days right after 9/11, kathleen turner was out on the sidewalk handing out food and water to both the displaced new yorker and the workers.

i look forward to reading the rest of the book.

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[ShockandAutism]

11:20 AM on 01/20/2008

I had no idea alcohol can cause a sex change

[kellygrrrl]

11:17 AM on 01/20/2008

did that "journey" involve the use of steroids?

[gregsamsa222]

11:22 PM on 01/19/2008

I saw her and Bill Irwin do 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf' on broadway a few years back, and she was phenomenal. She shouldn't try to trade herself so much on her sexuality--she acted the hell out of the role of Martha, and is clearly more talented than a lot of the starlets we have to pretend are interesting.

[MelindaPost]

09:07 PM on 01/19/2008

Having looked at the full self-absorbed article: We've all had bumpy lives- stop whining. We haven't all had those opportunities.

[CintiBlue]

09:02 PM on 01/19/2008

How come there are no comments on the Robert Redford thread about him looking his age? Life shows on his face too.

[Celldumceen]

08:31 PM on 01/19/2008

That's Kathleen Turner? What the hell happened?

[degjack]

07:24 PM on 01/19/2008

What a shame....she was once so beautiful.
I'm sure she can be again. It's a matter of lifestyle.