Posted on 04/03/2025 11:25:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Kathleen Turner looked frail as she made a rare public outing in NYC this week - months after her failing health caused her to drop out of a play.
The Body Heat and Romancing The Stone star, 70, looked shaky as she leaned on a walker after stepping away from the spotlight.
For the trip, Turner wore a long, dark overcoat, over a blue sweater, black pants, and black sneakers, as she made her way to an awaiting vehicle with the help of two people
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I remember that film. Recently divorced it hit home
Anti-anxiety drugs make that almost impossible
Rocky Balboa:
Time takes everybody out; time’s undefeated.
Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
When you have severe rheumatoid arthritis, looks don’t matter much. Getting through the day with the least amount of pain is the goal.
happens to men too.... Look how Gene Hackman appeared and Sean Connery and so on and so on...oh include Burt Reynolds in that too.
“Getting through the day with the least amount of pain is the goal.”
I get occasional short bouts of painful arthritis in my foot and hand. It usually passes very quickly. I can’t imagine living with that chronic pain.
That is amazing that he still maintained his cheerfulness despite his suffering. What a hero.
“That is amazing that he still maintained his cheerfulness despite his suffering. What a hero.”
No kidding. It’s sad I didn’t realize it when he was alive. I regret that. He was a quirky guy, but always very friendly and kind to everybody. Am amazing man.
One thing I've heard that makes a lot of sense to me is that the reason time seems to go faster as we grow older is because when we are young, we are always experiencing new things. Almost every day is a wonder of discovery and we build a lot of fresh memories. As we get older, however, have less and less new experiences and thus less new memories to fill our thoughts, sometimes just the mundane daily experiences that leave no lasting impression and seem more empty. The remedy to that, of course, would to try and make our days more meaningful in the sense of having as many new experiences as we can for as long as we can.
She was hit hard by rheumatoid arthritis in her late 30s, and the medications she took caused other problems. She had a very rough life for a movie star.
Thanks. I had no idea is started so early in life for her.
Degenerative diseases are awful in young people. Our next door neighbor’s daughter is 37 and she was hit with MS about seven years ago. My BIL got hit with it in his mid 30s, too. They are awful diseases.
Hard to do when you're taking steroids for arthritis. Steroids always pack the pounds on.
I know that’s true, when I was on steroids, I was ravenous.
Quite the surprise ending. Turner was real good in it as was Hurt.
Well written and solid direction. Movies like that seem sort of old fashioned now, but that how they used to do it.
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