Kathleen Turner

And, like any red-blooded American boy, I have been enamored of Kathleen Turner since those sizzling-hot scenes in Body Heat with William Hurt, and if you don't know what I mean, you should get a DVD of it.

Jay Weston: Kathleen Turner Stars as Molly Ivins at Westwood's Geffen Playhouse Jay Weston 2012

And (B) no one in the cast of Horrible Bosses can hold a candle to Nicholson, Kathleen Turner (especially back then), Pitt or Jolie.

Abe Gurko: What's With the New York Times Movie Reviewers?!? Abe Gurko 2011

Whether or not Belle indeed has Schizoid Personality Disorder, or whether she merely has the same kind of 'Gee, now I get to live out my somewhat dangerous romantic fantasies' experience as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, Belle spends the first third of the film utterly miserable and with no plausible potential for improvement on the horizon.

Scott Mendelson: Blaming the Victim: The 'Problem' With Beauty and the Beast Isn't Belle, but the Beast Scott Mendelson 2012

I'm Just Sayin'! is packed with treasured memories, from Zimmer's early days on The Doctors where she replaced Kathleen Turner to her current return engagement as One Life to Live demon Echo DiSavoy.

The Scoop on Soap Star Kim Zimmer's Upcoming Tell-All Memoir 2011

Yes, Sister Jamison Connelly is a foul-mouthed, tough-talking dame with a heart of brass-plated gold, and yes, Ms. Turner's Janie-One-Note performance is so thickly mannered as to suggest that the producers of "High" have engaged a Kathleen Turner robot instead of the real thing.

Turner, in Her Usual Role Terry Teachout 2011

Whether or not Belle indeed has Schizoid Personality Disorder, or whether she merely has the same kind of 'Gee, now I get to live out my somewhat dangerous romantic fantasies' experience as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, Belle spends the first third of the film utterly miserable and with no plausible potential for improvement on the horizon.

Scott Mendelson: Blaming the Victim: The 'Problem' With Beauty and the Beast Isn't Belle, but the Beast Scott Mendelson 2012

Body Heat (1981) -- Set in a scorching South Florida town, this deliciously tawdry film follows the ill-fated Ned Racine (William Hurt), a naive attorney ensnared by alluring, devious Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) -- first in a passionate affair, then in a diabolical plan to murder her husband Edmund (Richard Crenna), collect the insurance, and conceal the crime using Ned's purported legal know-how.

John Farr: 10 Classic Movies That Turn Up the Heat for Summer John Farr 2011

'The War of the Roses' 1989 Danny DeVito directed this bleak black comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, about a divorce so harrowing the film might have served as couples therapy.

'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty John Anderson 2011

Whether or not Belle indeed has Schizoid Personality Disorder, or whether she merely has the same kind of 'Gee, now I get to live out my somewhat dangerous romantic fantasies' experience as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, Belle spends the first third of the film utterly miserable and with no plausible potential for improvement on the horizon.

Scott Mendelson: Blaming the Victim: The 'Problem' With Beauty and the Beast Isn't Belle, but the Beast Scott Mendelson 2012

In another drama with a religious theme, Kathleen Turner stars in "A Perfect Family" as a woman vying for "Catholic Woman of the Year" whose brood must pass muster with the church's idea of family values.

Tribeca Film Fest Unveils Full Slate Steve Dollar 2011