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Kathleen Turner gets due attention and a special appreciation in the NYT today for her work as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf: How the Diva of Diva's Did It.

We have enjoyed Turner for a very long time. The last time we saw her was in the revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof where she prowled the stage as Maggie the cat.

Delicious.

First saw her in Body Heat. Hot. And then, quickly into another whole extravagantly funny world with Steve Martin in The Man with Two Brains.

Two shots, one right after another. Terrific.

She has been ill. Rheumatoid arthritis. I read that she allowed rumors that she was a drunk (the symptoms) to persist because, in Hollywood, you can get work if you are a drinker. They are used to that. But it is impossible to get production insurance if you have a chronic illness.

A trouper.