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From her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat to her award-winning role as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, actress Kathleen Turner's unique blend of beauty, intelligence, and raw sexuality has driven her personal and professional life. Now, in this gutsy memoir, the screen icon tells us of the risks she's taken and the lessons she's learned-sometimes the hard way.


For the first time, Turner shares her childhood challenges-a life lived in countries around the world until her father, a State Department official whom she so admired, died suddenly when she was a teenager. She talks about her twenty year marriage, and why she and her husband recently separated, her close relationship with her daughter, her commitment to service, and how activism in controversial causes has bolstered her beliefs. And Turner reveals the pain and heartbreak of her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis, and how, in spite of it, she made a daring decision: to take a break from the movies and relaunch her stage career.


Along the way, Turner describes what it's like to work with legends like Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, William Hurt, Steve Martin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, John Waters, Edward Albee...and, with characteristic irreverent humor, shares her behind-the-screen stories of dealing with all types of creative, intimidating, and inspiring characters.


Kathleen Turner has always known that she would play the lead in the story of her life. It's impossible not to take her lessons on living, love, and leading roles to heart. And it won't be long until you'll be sending yourself roses! ... Read more

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Just Awful
I am so sad to have read this book.I was such a huge Kathleen Turner fan.I've seen all of her movies and own quite a few so naturally I snapped this book up when I saw it.Big mistake.He ego is so out of control and she's so off-putting in this book and I don't care for her anymore.But the sad thing is it's its pretty clear she has zero self confidence and is overcompensating.She gives overcompensating a new meaning.Here's a couple stomach turning quotes:

"I was actually a lot better than almost everybody, but I didnt know that yet"

"While I was hearing from friends and professional colleagues day after day what an extraordinary talent I have and what an admirable person I am..."

The whole book goes on and on like that.I had to skip pages because they were so cringey.

I know autobiographies are about themselves and from their perspective but this was just plain painful to read.I've read many many autobiographies and have thoroughly them, but this was different.She refers to herself in the third person constantly and when she thinks she has said or done something witty, she calls it a "Turnerism"

She constantly refers to the reader as "Honey" or "Babe", while this could have been endearing from a book with the righ tone, from her it sounds phoney and annoying.

It kills me to even have to write these things about a woman I highly so admired at one time and who I have grown to loathe.Please skip this book, you will be disappointed if you are any kind of Kathleen Turner fan.

Just okay.
I enjoyed Kathleen Turner's movies and I had wondered about her deteriorating health as she grew older and it saddened me to hear of it.She had a remarkable upbringing with living abroad. I found her to be funny and I really don't take too seriously her comments about herself as being self congratulating.She is examining her life and she is simply stating how she sees it.She HAS accomplished some remarkable work and the courage she displays in the face of RA is truly one of her most commendable virtues and is what I've taken away from this book as the most valuable lessons.

Send Yourself Roses
I am a longtime fan of Ms. Turners work on screen and was anxious to read her autobiography; I'm not sure this was it. Her overly confident way of writing provides a lot of interesting details about her life as "she remembers" them.I found her behind the scenes stories about working with Hollywood legends particularly bold. Her battle with rheumatoid arthritis and alcoholism provide unexpected insight into her life as well. This book must have been very cathartic for Ms. Turner to write. Although entertaining, it did not read like an autobiography. But, it did provide some very "juicy" details about her Hollywood life © Bobskatie Enterprises for Amazon.com

Quite a Disappointment
This was a disappointing book, full of self-congratulating praise. Kathleen calls herself sexy, an icon, beautiful, etc. over and over again and it becomes annoying and then finally ridiculous. In my opinion in her younger years she was certainly not what I would call unattractive, but my goodness, get over your appearance, Kathleen and move on to more important things. So much had been written in reference to her "beauty" instead of any substance.

When her daughter was rushed to the hospital for an incident by her mother-in-law who did not notify Kathleen (her daughter was okay) she practically knocked the mother-in-law out when she found out what had happened. I get the feeling that she is trying to convince the reader how wonderful a mother she was vs. one that would have to leave her family, even for a short while to make a film. Is it guilt she's dealing with? In this situation I felt Kathleen's behavior was excessive and over-the-top. I wanted to hear more about her battle with alcohol, but that wasn't covered at length. She mentioned it and then it was done with, but she went on at length about all her movies and performances, which is something a reader (this reader) may not really care much about. I wanted to hear more about her marriage, her husband, their life, but again, so much of the book was dedicated to her discussing her movie roles. She also discusses her voice at length, obviously feeling that her voice is quite special and worth lots and lots of attention in the book. Does anyone really care about a voice? Bottom-line is this book was not worth the time it took to read it.

Send Yourself Roses by Kathleen Turner
The book was interesting and revealing of what Turner is like in real life.She is quite tough and out spoken.

She takes you behind the scenes of her movies to reveal interesting tidbits during each filming.Great stuff for movie lovers!She talks about her costars and their personalities.You feel like you are right there with them as they film each movie!

She gives a candid description of her RA and all that she had to indure from this disease. ... Read more

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The New York Times bestseller SEND YOURSELF ROSES is now in trade paperback.


Kathleen Turner has always lived her life according to her own rules. The screen icon opens up about her own life--both personal and professional--the risks she's taken, and the lessons she's learned from her film and stage career, 20-year marriage (and recent seperation), raising her daughter, and her successful struggle with rheumatoid arthritis.

In SEND YOURSELF ROSES Turner recounts why she took the roles she did--from her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat to her subsequent craft-stretching roles in Peggy Sue Got Married (for which she received an Academy award nomination), Romancing the Stone, Prizzi's Honor, The War of the Roses, and Serial Mom. And she discusses her recent resurgence on the stage with Tony nominations in her roles as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she also won the a British Evening Standard Award. ... Read more

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Well written and inspiring
Turner has long been one of my favorite stars. I love her sultry voice. Readers will recognize her from such movies as Romancing the Stone, the Graduate and Body Heat. She is known for both her sexy roles and comedy roles.

This account of her life is very upbeat focusing on the positive. Even when telling her battle with rheumatoid arthritis she stays positive.

Send Yourself Roses is well written and inspiring. ... Read more

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Now famous for their immediate impact of color, light, and atmospheric effect, the landscapes of Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) were at first the object of opposing critical claims: from one side the British artist was charged with painting "pictures of nothing and very like," from the other, with allowing too much "content" to eclipse his presentation of nature. Taking this paradox as its starting point, Kathleen Nicholson's richly illustrated book proposes a thorough revision of how we understand the enigmatic artist who revolutionized landscape painting. Advancing the growing interest in Turner's handling of content, without ignoring questions of style, Nicholson shows how Turner used the themes of antiquity to explore the ways natural imagery can embody meaning, and how he came to view interpretation itself as a primary subject. Nicholson maintains that by seeking themes in ancient myth, culture, and history, Turner was able to reinvest nature with new values and concepts, thereby accomplishing a genuinely modern revision of classical landscape in an early nineteenth-century idiom. His inquiry into the nature of meaning, she argues, led him to articulate a narrative that engaged the viewer in "reading" or interpreting both symbolic and purely visual imagery. Among the first to analyze systematically the themes treated in Turner's early sketchbooks, Nicholson traces the artist's understanding of a given legend, ancient author, or formal source as it developed over time, providing rare insight into the extent and character of his manipulation of subject matter. ... Read more

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During the past twenty years of intellectual boundary-crossing and widespread borrowing between fields, Turner's notions of "liminality" and the "processual" have been adopted by many theorists of art and society. This is the first volume to place individual Turner concepts into the context of his entire career and to spell out their implications for literary studies.

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The study of ecosystems, fundamental to ecology, has been complemented by the growing field of landscape ecology. Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes addresses how interactions among ecosystems affect the functioning of individual ecosystems and the larger landscape. This groundbreaking synthesis unites ecosystem ecology's knowledge of system function with landscape ecology's knowledge of spatial structure.

Practical concerns about scaling up from individual ecosystems to larger landscapes require an understanding of how networks of interacting ecosystems function together. The book elucidates the challenges faced by ecosystem scientists working in spatially heterogeneous systems, relevant conceptual approaches used in other disciplines and in different ecosystem types, and the importance of spatial heterogeneity in conservation resource management. The distinguished authors discuss how how much heterogeneity needs to be taken into account for specific types of scientific and management issues.  Their chapters cover the spectrum from proposing novel conceptual approaches to detailing the practical implications of heterogeneous landscapes for fire management, water management and conservation planning.

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Chapters: People From Springfield, Missouri, Matt Blunt, Kathleen Turner, Payne Stewart, Lucas Grabeel, Speedy West, William Garwood, Slim Wilson, Ralph D. Foster, David Kershenbaum, James Billings, Herman Keiser, Marc Breedlove, si Siman, Lennie Aleshire, the Springfield Three, Mickey Owen, Dale Long, Anthony Tolliver, William Ludwig Ullmann, Daniel Woodrell, Sempronius H. Boyd, Royce Money, Janet L. Kavandi, List of People From Springfield, Missouri, Jim Lowe, Scott Siman, Buddy Baker, Kennie Steenstra, Seth Wand, George Hively, Roscoe C. Patterson, Pamela Pauly Chinnis, Bob Dixon, Jimmie Angel, Robert Mandan, Johnny Ellis, Roy Smalley, Max Bacon, Tony Tost, Jason Whittle, Lucas Harrell, Norma Champion, Jason Pyrah, Virginia Hunter, Julie Blackmon, Kelly Rupp, James Richard Waddill, Jim Kreider, Steve Cash, Nick Benson, Jay Turner, Sunny Golloway, Steve Gordon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 200. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Matthew Roy Blunt (born November 20, 1970) served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000. A Republican, Blunt was elected governor on November 2, 2004, carrying 101 of Missouri's 114 counties. At age 33, he became the second youngest person ever elected to that office after Kit Bond. Blunt was the youngest governor in the United States until Bobby Jindal was sworn in as Governor of Louisiana on January 14, 2008. Blunt did not seek a second term as governor, announcing his decision in an address to Missourians on January 22, 2008. Born in Strafford, Missouri, Blunt is the son of former House Minority Whip (previously Majority Whip and Interim Majority Le...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1133101 ... Read more

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Mary Kathleen Turneris an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Prizzi's Honor. She is currently guest starring in Californication on Showtime ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Hurt, John Kerry, Kathleen Turner, Oliver Platt, Stewart Copeland, Greg Kinnear, Dylan Walsh, Cameron Kerry, Miles Copeland Iii, Ian Copeland, Foreign Service Brat. Excerpt:Cameron Forbes Kerry (born September 6, 1950) is the younger brother and political confidant of John F. Kerry . The fourth child of U.S. diplomat Richard J. Kerry and his wife, Rosemary Winthrop Forbes , Cameron Kerry graduated from Harvard University in 1972, and Boston College Law School in 1978. Cameron Kerry was associated with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C. and served as law clerk to U.S. Senior Circuit Judge Elbert Tuttle , former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (now the Eleventh Circuit). He has been an Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications Law at Suffolk University Law School and has written on First Amendment and cable television issues. Since 1983, he has worked at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo , focusing on civil litigation, environmental issues, and communications regulation. In 2004, he served as an influential advisor in his brother s presidential campaign. Cameron Kerry played a role in decisions behind the scenes and as a campaign surrogate. On September 18, 1972, the day before the primary election in which John Kerry was seeking his district's nomination in his race for the U.S. House of Representatives , Cameron Kerry and Thomas J. Vallely were caught in the basement of the building that housed both John Kerry's and opponent Anthony R. DiFruscia's campaign headquarters. Cameron was charged with breaking and entering. One month later, the charges were dropped after the Kerry campaign explained that Cameron was in the building to investigate rumors that his brother's campaign telephone lines were b... ... Read more

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Includes an article on the jungle death of Dian Fossey. ... Read more

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Hand signed publicity photo by celebrated actress Kathleen Turner. Comes with our COA. ... Read more

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Cover Story: Kathleen Turner; Feature stories: John Grisham; Stephen King on Stephen King; Pop Corn Ratings; plus News & Notes, Reviews and Departments. ... Read more

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Chapters: Matt Blunt, Kathleen Turner, Payne Stewart, Lucas Grabeel, Speedy West, William Garwood, Ralph D. Foster, David Kershenbaum, James Billings, Herman Keiser, Marc Breedlove, si Siman, the Springfield Three, Dale Long, Anthony Tolliver, William Ludwig Ullmann, Daniel Woodrell, Sempronius H. Boyd, Royce Money, Janet L. Kavandi, List of People From Springfield, Missouri, Jim Lowe, Scott Siman, Buddy Baker, Kennie Steenstra, Seth Wand, George Hively, Roscoe C. Patterson, Pamela Pauly Chinnis, Bob Dixon, Jimmie Angel, Johnny Ellis, Roy Smalley, Max Bacon, Tony Tost, Jason Whittle, Lucas Harrell, Norma Champion, Jason Pyrah, Virginia Hunter, Julie Blackmon, Kelly Rupp, James Richard Waddill, Steve Cash, Nick Benson, Jay Turner, Sunny Golloway, Steve Gordon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 189. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Matthew Roy Blunt (born November 20, 1970) served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000. A Republican, Blunt was elected governor on November 2, 2004, carrying 101 of Missouri's 114 counties. At age 33, he became the second youngest person ever elected to that office after Kit Bond. Blunt was the youngest governor in the United States until Bobby Jindal was sworn in as Governor of Louisiana on January 14, 2008. Blunt did not seek a second term as governor, announcing his decision in an address to Missourians on January 22, 2008. Born in Strafford, Missouri, Blunt is the son of former House Minority Whip (previously Majority Whip and Interim Majority Leader), and current Missouri U.S. Senate candidate, Roy Blunt and his first wife, Roseann Ray Blunt. After ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1133101 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Kathleen J. Turner, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 466 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Kathleen Turner, Dan Patrick, Jon S. Cardin, Duff Goldman, Pascal Charbonneau, Mantle Hood, Brian Dannelly, Wayne Franklin, James N. Mathias, Jr., Johnathon Schaech, Victoria L. Schade, Brendan Mundorf, Dan Marohl, Drew Westervelt, Jeff Ratcliffe, Allan H. Kittleman, Steve Marohl, Jay Witasick, Tony Harris, Steve Miller, Robert Mugge, Samuel Ankama, Sean Carton, Ron Dillon, Jr., Geof Manthorne,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Prizzi's Honor. She is currently guest starring in Californication on Showtime. Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy (née Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who grew up in China (where Turner's great-grandfather was a Methodist missionary). Her father, a diplomat, had been imprisoned by the Japanese for four years during the Second World War. As a child, Turner lived in Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and was living in Cuba at the time Castro came to power. Turner has two brothers and a sister. While attending high school in London, she was a gymnast and also took classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama. In her early years, Turner was interested in performing. Her father did not encourage her: "My father was of missionary stock," she later explained, "so theater and acting were just one step up from being a streetwalker, you know? So when I was performing in school, he would drive my mom and sit in the car. She'd come out at intermissions and tell him, 'She's doing very well.'" Turner graduated from the Americ...http://booksllc.net/?id=182997 ... Read more