Kathleen Turner News

In the span of a week, we learned that two of Toronto's most storied celebrity hangouts are slated to close: the property housing Bistro 990 , 990 Bay St., has been sold for condo development, while the Sutton Place Hotel across the street is being converted into condos.

Two-time Oscar and Tony nominee, Mary Kathleen Turner was born on June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri.

One cannot help but wonder how much of this energetic "kick-ass" is Kathleen Turner and how much is Molly Ivins? Turner becomes Ivins as she swaggers onstage with her brand of moxie.

Husky-voiced Kathleen Turner has mastered her share of audacious characterizations, from her sizzling breakthrough turn as a femme fatale in the film "Body Heat" to her bravura emoting onstage as the braying alcoholic harridan Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" It seems that Turner would be the ideal actor to capture the essence of the ... (more)

Kathleen Turner- the sultry-voiced star of "Body Heat," "Romancing the Stone," "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "The War of the Roses"- will be taking questions during a live online chat at 11 a.m. Wednesday.