| Show Page 12 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday July 14 1997 ONE BIG HAPPY Kathleen IVimer finds a revived career on stage CHICHESTER England (AP) — la films yoo’re hot — and then you're not uyi Kathleen Tuner a movie star (pending the summer in a town without a proper movie theater In the theater you can sustain a career ihe says “The roles get better and better" lays the husky-voice- d actress explaining her return to the theater this time in two plays at the Chichester Festival Theatre in Sussex southwest England While American filmgoers can catch Turner in the new comedy A Simple Wish she opened July 1 in playwright Sandra Ryan Heyward's show Tallulah! She plays the feisty outspoken actress TUIulah Bankhead Running through July 12 the play is to travel to the West End and Broadway if reviews match Ttou-er- 's enthusiasm for an expletive-fille-d script about actress an irrepressible ultinuNely Next month Turner joins Rula Lcnska in a revival of the rarely staged Our Betters a Somerset Maugham play from 1917 A comedy of uppercrust manners the play casts Turner as Lady Grayston an American aristocrat paying a price for the moneyed milieu into which she has married Director Michael CATHY rHI Cffiw ITS IIHIlNt) XSTDffCOBHIDKCHN) hour nowe owcc t& cam one-wom- an mKnmbvin HOU?! HE RUNCDVDUR Utf! smo HAVE cares it AMKEUP ON?! ve BEETLE BAILEY Rudmaa’s production runs in repertory through Sept 27 And though the Chichester matrons may not know her the autograph hounds have been out in miniforce Tm a married woman" Turner before gamely posing for a photo with one importuning man Later she walked unnoticed through the town's bustling main street her knapsack giving her the air of an elegant graduate stu- Ap photo Kathleen Turner relaxes In the grounds of the Chichester Festival Theatre In Sussex southwest England Speech and Drama — alma mater of Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave — vanished when her father a career diplomat suddenly died and she found herself at 17 returning home to Missouri Moving to New York after college Turner n in a often in regional ington DC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opposite Avery Brooks and as the young adieu Nina alongside Tbm Hulce and Linda Tbanon in a Canadian revival of The Seagull "That fourth ad is impossible" she said of the dent on the way to class Tb most audiences the actress is priChekhov masterwork marily known as one of the sultriest film finds of a replacement She made her Broadway debut the 1980s She came to attention in Body Heat and in the long-runnian Gemini and returned stuck around through movies like Prizzi Honor nbove-the-tit- le star in 1990 to play Tennessee Romancing the Stone Jewel of die Nik and Peggy Williams' alluring Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Sue Got Married for which she was nominated for Rag an Academy Award The adieu' Broadway stint in 1993 In recent years prize parts have dried up the in Indiscretions subsequent wu leu fortuitous Not only did the demented matriarch in John Waters’ Serial Mom Jean Cocteau premiere close at a loss casting a pall deliciously excepted as Hollywood shifted atten- over Turner's box-offipower but she wu the er tion to an crop of nubile newcomers cast not to receive a only member of a five-persTurner's own struggle with rheumatoid arthritis a wnmiiitinn she wu a best-adi1990 Award (in Ibny genetic disease led to several years on steroids and nominee for Mancie) other drags resulting in a puffy bloated physique at "That hurt It huit it really did" recalled Turner odds with a contemporary screen siren shifting the conversation outside the restaurant so Now slimmed --down and svelte in a pale blue she could light a Canadian Export A cigarette She Armani suit Timer said over lunch that in Hollysmiled: ‘Tm one of the few Americans who wood “You’re used up by the time you’re 40" "We in America don't know how to accommo"I got all there letters of apology from the Tany date the notion of a woman approach- nominating committee and there wu Eileen” — co-st- ar ing middle age who is m touch with her sensuality Eileen Atkins — "storming around back-staThis industry now is completely ran by bankers and ih Hid it’s really sad” said Timer tunning a money-me- n Wont of alT wu having to go on television early hand through her hooey-colorhair "They don't one morning to —"mu the nominees only to find take chances the way they used to herself not among them "It made me feel "I read these scripts and think ‘What about the she said character? Has anyone bothered to hfah of them? For now Thnier sounded pleased to be spending When 1 was starting’ everyone was willing to take the summer it England's greenbelt- - sharing a chaNMX: Now ‘there5 lcsi resped for actors you're beachside rental house with husband Jay Wriu and - MtotencourUifed to d&freb yolirlindivRtihd!tyJu49-yeai-eld-deeg- hl Bushel — "I like lobe near A lesser adieu might settle not so contentedly water'" into a life of character roles which Timer more or "I don't think my career is ova” she said movie world that she leu does in A Simple Wish and two other upcoming ing on the films Real Blondes and Baby Geniuses Her uving hu for the moment lot behind a star on In those heady days n decade or more ago "the grace is that she can reinvent herself stage greatneu wu to work with extraordinary actors” "As a theater actress you're either an ingenue "On the other hand” she said "I have enough which I never was or you wait until you come into work enough succeu that I now have respect withminmliMn the great roles That is I hope where I'm headed" out hype Without “Tnitf allows me privacy for which I am very During high school days at the American School in London Turner often went to die theater But her thankfol I don't want to be flavor of the month hopes of attending the prestigious Central School of u HAGAR THE HORRIBLE u ce ever-young- eu sexy-looki- ng ge PEANUTS ed 1DU PONT EVEN TWIST I TWIST 10U ABOUT AS FAR AS YOUCANTHROU) WAT JUNKET- - a Jf i ve u MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM Names in the news Wyeth discovers less is more NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Wyeth who tuns 80 on Saturday is discovering that leu is more The aitist famed for his Maine coastlines critiqued his wok a 1948 painting of neighbor lying in a field looking acrou ha land and home "If I wu really good I could best-kno- FOX TROT NdMIMEVXE DONE IT NdwDCTVE fra too M NSrUCYIMOUSMto IHffKLDerfeeoNiW X MEAN MHO DO EILEEN AND INWnCYtsiruStoDNE MtolNItoWfffISrNTM PHOEBE have done the field in Christina World without her in there Wyeth told Chides Osgood in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning "The leu you have in a picture the better the picture is really" 1HNK ftrretMouRMMcurs KrMNBtRSTfUMACB 1XUNE' AND IX war Mr Iff IMRE tAum' REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME rea- son he would wateh the video is to remind him of a decision he regrets "If I look at it it will be a onetime deal" Qeava said "I want to see how die city is treated It will also serve as a reminder neva to do it again” Kansas City mayor is no U2 fan KANSAS CITY Mo (AP) A rock video by U2 uses City as a backdrop but don’t look to Mayor Emanuel Cleaver to talk it up Highways and streets were closed for hours for shooting of the desolate gtainy Last Nigh on Earth causing maps traffic jams over two days in May At the time Cleaver suggested angry drivers and business owners itnnld pu up with n little inconvenience for a project that could give the local economy a $500000 — O'Donnell prefers adoption NEW YORK (AP) — Lacking a man but wanting children Rosie O'Donnell turned to an adoption agency ratha than artificial insemination and she'd do it again "I would never get pregnant artificially Fm certainly not condemning anyone who does but I have no genetic investment hi a child Any baby you put in my arms will be my baby Girl or boy it makes no difference” the talk show host said in Sunday’s O'DonnelL 33 adopted an infant boy two yean aga "If I had married and had a biological family that would be great" she said "It didn’t happen I almost got married a few years ago but things didn’t wok ouL I didn't make the choke not to include a father — there just “ ill Win at bridge 1 should have Who said this? no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning only asking the advantages authors have a second edition to correct some faults of the finL” In their latest confrontation IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue did remarkably well again Garry Kasparov I just wondered how it chose its opening moves The computer's memory presumably contains an known: opening theory So how does resolve whether to reply to 1 e4 with u saye5e6cSac6? la bridge die first play — the OK whal'd you do wMi my FruiUin West hand and decide upon your By Pimp Alder opening lead— is based on much more information: the auction And the store bids yon have hand the bettor the picture of die unseen hands yon can build upi If yon wish look only at the Cl 907 by NEA Nwth North bids what he expects Ms KJgy VAI4I What card should West select? 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