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Kathleen Turner again

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Alison - 24 Jan 2006 22:04 GMT
Two articles about Kathleen Turner and her RA in the mail
today. Do you think she knows about the new treatments for
RA ? Get thee to a RD, woman!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766

Alison
Jayne - 25 Jan 2006 11:07 GMT
I believe that Kathleen Turner has been taking Enbrel for a few years (its
been discussed in ASA frequently).

The Guardian did a smashing interview with her last Saturday, which was a
bit more balanced.  I've pasted a bit below.

Its a shame though that everyone expects her too look as she did in Body
Heat - I know I look nothing like I did 25 years ago.

Jayne

Though Turner continued to make some critically acclaimed movies in her
40s - the repressed mother in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, a
homicidal matriarch in the satirical Serial Mom - a diagnosis of rheumatoid
arthritis in 1993 certainly did not help a film career that was already
shifting gear. Daily intake of steroids to control pain and severe joint
swelling caused her to gain weight; the tabloids had a field day suggesting
she had let herself go with drinking and overeating. Nor did she contradict
them.

"It hurt me very much what they wrote, [she is now in remission with
medication and back to her slim form] but I was frightened if the industry
knew I was sick, it might hurt my career." Hollywood, she points out, can be
a very forgiving town, except if you're ill. "Look at all the actors who are
known drunks, go to jail for drugs, come out of rehab and go right back to
work. But for me to tell people about it, they would have run."

She says that while the worst of it was the loss of mobility - "I have
always been a great athlete, and suddenly to lose this portion of myself was
devastating" - she understood why the public's reaction was centred on her
perceived loss of sexuality. Sex symbols, she explains, are expected to be
frozen in time. "People were saying, look, her face is getting heavier,
comparing me to who I was 20 years ago. Which makes no sense. They didn't
stop growing or changing, why would I look the same? And if I did look the
same, is that not bizarre?"

> Two articles about Kathleen Turner and her RA in the mail
> today. Do you think she knows about the new treatments for
> RA ? Get thee to a RD, woman!
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766
>
> Alison
Alison - 26 Jan 2006 16:30 GMT
> I believe that Kathleen Turner has been taking Enbrel for a few years (its
> been discussed in ASA frequently).
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Jayne

  Sorry Kathleen , muy bad!
She was on The Richard and Judy show and she looked great.
In the article it said she was on anti-inflammatories and
antibiotics but  R&J she mentioned that there are new drugs
now that weren't available the last time she
was on the programme.
Alison
Jayne - 26 Jan 2006 20:31 GMT
>   Sorry Kathleen , muy bad!
> She was on The Richard and Judy show and she looked great.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> was on the programme.
> Alison

I thought the Daily mail pic of her was very unflattering - the one they
took to go with the Guardian was much nicer.  She does look older, but then
don't we all?  It was only a few years ago she played Mrs Robinson on stage
in London I believe.

Jayne
Robin Fairbairns - 26 Jan 2006 16:31 GMT
>I believe that Kathleen Turner has been taking Enbrel for a few years (its
>been discussed in ASA frequently).
>
>The Guardian did a smashing interview with her last Saturday, which was a
>bit more balanced.  I've pasted a bit below.

thanks -- missed that.

>Its a shame though that everyone expects her too look as she did in Body
>Heat - I know I look nothing like I did 25 years ago.

it's a stupid feature of the celebrity culture, that people seem to
have fogotten about the physical properties of human beings.

i don't believe i've ever seen ms turner, but istr she did some female
detective on radio 4 a while back -- and she was *wonderful*.  with a
voice like that, she could look like me (see my web site) and i would
still find her sexy.  ;-)
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
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