Kathleen Turner

Actress Kathleen Turner officially joins the ranks of Margaret Seltzer and James Frey today, having admitted through a lawyer that certain parts of her recent memoir are untrue. In the book, published stateside in February as Send Yourself Roses by an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA, Ms. Turner wrote that during the filming of the 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married, Mr. Cage was "arrested twice for drunk-driving and, I think, for stealing a dog. He'd come across a Chihuahua he liked and stuck it in his jacket." The line also appeared as part of an excerpt published in UK paper The Daily Mail under the headline, "Why I detest Burt Reynolds and Nicolas Cage."  read more »

Want to get up close and personal with actress Kathleen Turner, near enough to feel her, um, body heat? Better start riding the bus. As the director of the off-Broadway revival of Crimes of the Heart, Ms. Turner has had to forfeit her generous Hollywood salary. She now eats out less and takes mass transit, she told Newsweek.  read more »

In The Transom: Mike Leigh and Scott Elliott lunch at Balthazar; Judy Dench, Joan Collins, and Kathleen Turner consider the war in Iraq; When Is a Chair Not a Chair? When it's at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Peter Norton is buying them. Plus! Our East End Correspondent Taffy Winesap Settles in for Winter in Sag Harbor in our new Sag Harbor Diary....

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And Daniel Akst wants to break out the Champagne and toast the end of the housing bubble.  read more »

-Michael Calderone

When it comes to Tony time, I'm all in favor.  read more »

It takes two to make a memorable fight, and a heavyweight beating up a lightweight is no contest at  read more »

I've been trying to figure out why The Graduate , starring the briefly naked Kathleen Turner, could  read more »

Pfeiffer Radiates, Even in Deep GriefWhen Michelle Pfeiffer shows anguish, it is palpable.  read more »