Defamer
In frequently amusing excerpts from her upcoming autobiography now being published in the UK's Daily Mail, Romancing the Stone and Serial Mom star Kathleen Turner unloads both tell-all barrels into a number of her former co-stars, including Michael Douglas ("a wonderful friend and a terrible enemy"), William Hurt ("he loved those magic mushrooms"), and Anthony Perkins ("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.") But a special place in Turner's Hollywood-hardened heart is reserved for Peggy Sue Got Married castmate Nicolas Cage, whom she accuses of acting out so as not to seem like director/uncle Francis Ford Coppola threw him a spot on the call sheet purely out of nepotism:
He caused so many problems. He was arrested twice for drunk-driving and, I think, once for stealing a dog. He'd come across a chihuahua he liked and stuck it in his jacket.
On the last night of filming, he came into my trailer after he'd clearly been drinking heavily. He fell on his knees and asked if I could ever forgive him. I said, "Not right now. I have a scene to shoot. Excuse me," and just walked out.Nicolas didn't manage to kill the film, but he didn't add a lot to it, either. For years, whenever I saw him, he'd apologise for his behaviour. I'd say: "Look, I'm way over it." But I haven't pursued the idea of working with him again.
Cage, eager to defend his good name, had his trusty publicist call Page Six to refute Turner's recounting of the alleged, set-disrupting arrests ("While I recall Kathleen Turner being a great lady and wonderful actress, the credibility of her biography and her memory is at stake . . . Fact credibility should have been exercised on [her] part"); following such an impassioned self-affirmation of his professionalism, we expect that the box office megastar can now safely put this brief ugliness behind him, and get back to the important work of mugging his way through terrible movies that gross hundreds of millions of dollars, unemcumbered by obviously baseless accusations of Chihuahua-napping.
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Ha, speaking of stealing, I read this book about a 5 star luxury hotel, and Miss Turner loved to steal the petit fours at dinner and then ask the waiter why he forgot to bring her petit fours.
She was so fucking hot in Man With Two Brains. I can't wait to read the stuff she wrote.
"Cage eager to defend his good name...." He has a good name? He's a B-lister, at best.
Oh Kathleen, you are my kind of crazy, girlfriend. I may have to read this book. She had me forever after Serial Mom.
Can I just say that the idea of Nicolas Cage roaming the world with stolen chihuahuas in his pocket makes me gleefully happy?
she can do whatever she wants after "war of the roses"
Ooh! I love a woman who is not afraid to dish!
@Benovite: Even that's an understatement. I can't begin to tell you how often I watched "particular scenes" in that movie when I was a growing lad.
Can't wait to read this - she dishes delightfully, but I think I'll wait for the audio book. That wonderful, loaded voice bitching it up? Mmmmm....
@Mark - "the airing of the grievances" - a fantastic tag that speaks volumes to the restofus...
Nic Cage brought the crazy. Is that a surprise? He ate a cockroach on film and named his kid after a comic book character. I would think chihuahuanapping would rank as one of the more normal things he's done.
Don't mess with Beverly Sutphin.
@Rey: "Pussy-face"
Yeah, this stuff was all way more fun than the proposing to the waitress, throwing rings into the ocean in anger phases of his life.
Apprently the Coens forgot to tell him that Raising Arizona had wrapped years ago.
I still think he cost her an Oscar with that "performance." Team Body Heat!
"Peggy Sue Got Married" is one of two movies I have only seen once because it caused me to cry uncontrollably (the other is "Babe". Judge my mental health if you must...) but I thought she was pitch perfect in that role.
And "Body Heat" I watch for naked William Hurt but I always enjoy Ms. Turner's wonderfully over the top femme fatale...
This sounds like a put-it-on-hold-at-the-library book to look forward to.
@McDano:
I agree with you. He made Jim Carrey seem like Olivier by comparison..
@gwendolyn: I'm totally there with you regarding those two movies.
She and Michael Douglas had some of the best on-screen chemistry in film history. I remember watching Jewel of the Nile and wishing as a little kid that I could be them.
The voice. I just close my eyes...
the idea of nicholas cage nabbing stray chihuahuas on the film set...i literally can't stop laughing. i always knew kathleen turner would be a fabulous person to run into at a cocktail party.
No, Kathleen, he did manage to kill the film. Honestly. I just fucking cringed every time Nicky opened his mouth in that movie.
Can we cut to the chase already? Who did she fuck?
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