Excerpts from Kathleen Turner's autobiography- Page 2

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 2:44pm

He was SOO sexy in VALLEY GIRL, back when his teeth were a little askew and he was all gangly and goofy. Still one of my teen favorites.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 2:44pm

The way the universe piled together that DNA and synapses and such causes in me a chemical reaction that borders on revulsion. It's utterly insane. But I KNOW it's insane, so it's ok.

[DG]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 2:45pm

Robbie - I have that problem with Will Ferrel and Adam Sandler.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 2:49pm

I'm with ya on Sandler. HOW IS HE FAMOUS????

Ferrel...well...if it wasn't for ANCHORMAN, I'd probably be with you, too. But ANCHORMAN made me love him. So much so that I went (and enjoyed) ELF, BLADES OF GLORY and the one about race car driver.

[Icehouse Life]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 3:01pm

William Hurt and Burt Reynlods aren't safe from Kathleen's wrath either:

http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/kathleen-turner-autobiography/

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 4:46pm

On Nicholas Cage:

"He’d come across a Chihuahua he liked and stuck it in his jacket."

Funny stuff!

[Kalimba]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 4:51pm

Robbie, two things we agree on: our disdain for both Bindi and Nicholas Cage!

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 5:26pm

Let's start a hate club!

[nygrl23]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 5:30pm

>>My reaction to him is visceral and irrational. And I'm ok with that.

That's definitely sig material, robbiej.

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 5:34pm

Oh, forget about Nicholas Cage. Peggy Sue is on Oxygen right now and Turner is great. Barbara Harris is beyond praise.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 5:49pm

"Peggy Sue is on Oxygen right now"

That's awful. I'll pray to god for her.

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 6:14pm

Oh Namo, thank you. Prayers mean so much.

Posted: 1/24/08 at 7:02pm

ive loved Kathleen Turner forever & now i love her even more!!!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 7:03pm

You have good judgement on that, norn.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 7:09pm

Really? She hasn't screwed you in some way, Rath?

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 7:15pm

On Anthony Perkins,

In my time, I've worked with some pretty eccentric people. Crimes Of Passion, in which I played a whore, was directed by Ken Russell, who's a mad, self-sabotaging genius, and my co-star was the actor Anthony Perkins, of Psycho fame.


Ken was drinking a great deal at the time, and as the days went on, things got increasingly out of hand. Anthony, who had an appalling drug habit, was taking illegal substances in front of all of the crew. You could see his heart beating a mile a minute.


Everywhere he went, he carried a little bottle that I was told was benzyl nitrate. We'd rehearse a scene, then before the call to 'Roll camera', he'd take out his bottle and sniff it with each nostril.


His face would go red and he'd break into a sweat - and suddenly I'd have no idea whether he was in control of himself or not. It was scary. I was quite worried about getting hurt.


Before one scene, where my character had to go from abject misery to laughter in a matter of seconds, Anthony said to me "You won't be able to do that without some of this," and tried to hand me his drugs.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:14pm

I love the story on Burt Reynlods.

Burt Reynolds? How did this non talent become a star. Now of course he's a has been joke - a proof that the 70's were basically a laugh artistically - with some notable exceptions.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:26pm

"Benzyl nitrate"? WTF?

Doesn't she mean "amyl nitrate"?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:14pm

Of course, actual amyl nitrate is only available by prescription and comes in ampules that are popped open when somebody with angina needs to loosen up the old ticker area (and it just so happens to loosen up sphincters the whole body over).

The stuff they sell in little bottles to inhale has its chemical make-up changed every time whatever nitrate derivative is made illegal. For a long time it was butyl nitrate, which is probably what was most available when the Ken Russell movie was being made. Maybe that's what Kath means? There is such a thing as benzyl nitrate, but I think that's a pollutant.

But WHO KNOWS anymore? It's a nitrate and lord knows if you slap a label on it and put it in a brown bottle a whole lotta queens will sniff it. Me? I try to stick to the Greedy Pig brand.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:51pm

We like Greedy Pig but English Premium are much stronger.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:53pm

Strength is not always a virtue, just ask poor dead Tony Perkins.

Are there no gay fact checkers at Kath's publishing house?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:57pm

Of course, actual amyl nitrate is only available by prescription and comes in ampules that are popped open when somebody with angina needs to loosen up the old ticker area (and it just so happens to loosen up sphincters the whole body over)

I can't believe how much I learned in just this one sentence!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:00am

Proofreaders are not required to differentiate among poppers.

Copyeditors are trained in all manner of sex-toy operation.

At least, they USED to be. When I was trained.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:03am

I would make a terrible proofreader. I would get hung up on the wrong stuff. That's why I'd make a bad dramaturg, too.

I can't wait to read this book. I don't know if any of it's true, I don't care if any of it's true. I just imagine Kathleen Turner with a glass of chablis and a cigarette dictating this into a recorder. I don't see her doing the typing.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:28am

"I just imagine Kathleen Turner with a glass of chablis and a cigarette dictating this into a recorder."

And laughing her ass off after each entry!