This week's 80's Crush is: Kathleen Turner

Birth Name: Mary Kathleen Turner
Birth Date: 6/19/54
Age Today: 51
Birthplace: Springfield, MO

80's Crush Because: She stole my heart as naive but sexy romance writer Joan Wilder opposite Michael Douglas in the Indiana Jones-inspired "Romancing the Stone". But her torrid role in "Body Heat" as Matty Walker made me thank God for cable TV. Kathleen oozed sex and once said in an interview with Empire magazine: "on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesn't look at me he's probably gay". Amen.

Other Notable Roles: In addition to reprising her Joan Wilder character in "Jewel of the Nile", Kathleen earned an Academy Award nomination for her role in "Peggy Sue Got Married" and starred in "Prizzi's Honor", "The Accidental Tourist" and re-teamed with Michael Douglas for the black comedy "The War of the Roses". In the Nineties, most of her appearances were in less successful films and she even made a few infamous guest appearances on popular TV shows. Who can forget her as Chandler's hot "dad" on "Friends"?

Most Recent Media Appearance: She is currently starring in a production of "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" in London.

Distinguishing Feature: Deep, sultry voice. The reason I have to admit being aroused by Jessica Rabbit. She also had a striking resemblence to classic film actress Lauren Bacall.

Interesting Factoids: A daughter of diplomat Richard Turner, Kathleen spent her youth living in Cuba, Venzuela and England and is fluent is spanish. She was fired from the soap opera "The Doctors" in 1978 because the producers thought she wasn't sexy enough. Brilliant move there.

Still Crushin'?: Unfortunately no. Life has been a little rough for Kathleen. She has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis since 1992. In 1999, she went into rehab for alcohol treatment. The hard livin' and the steroids to treat her arthritis have taken a toll.

Crush Meter: 8 out of 10

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Episode #30: "Scar"
A crazed Cylon raider attacks the Colonial fleet in a series of hit-and-run attacks. Overworked Viper pilots must defend a mining operation from this raider that they nickname "Scar."

10pm, Sci-Fi

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1 what a hero ted kennedy is - he's always out there fighting for the minoritys and the poor whereas reagen's motto was take from the poor to give to the rich

Posted by: kyle foley at February 03, 2006 05:46 PM (8Ag0m)

2 Hey, you DO have a sense of humor. Good one!

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3 Well, am I a drunken psycho or what? Glad I got it together at the last second there. Anders is worth trying to stick around for. Of course, I don't know what I was thinking, messing up that encounter with Apollo. Duhhhh...

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Look at the size of this freaking rabbit!!!!

And this is REAL, too! Raised by a German breeder named Hans Wagner (he's the guy in the photo), the bunny - named German Giant - is more than three feet tall when standing on his hind feet.

How did German Giant get so big?

“I don’t feed him an unusual diet,” said Wagner. “He goes through more than his brothers and sisters, but he eats the same food mix. His favorite food is actually lettuce. He can never get enough of it.”

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Democrats seem to be all excited about yesterday's election of Rep. John Boehner (pronouned BAY-ner, btw) as the new House Majority Leader. They're painting this as a bad thing for the GOP, which makes no sense. Rich Galen in his Mullings column sums up why they're wrong much better than I could.

John Boehner's personality is the polar opposite of DeLay's. Where DeLay is pugnacious, Boehner is conciliatory. Where DeLay is aggressive, Boehner is understanding. Where DeLay is easy to dislike, Boehner is very easy to Â… like.

Once again the old saying, "Be careful what you wish for; you may get it" has come to pass. The Democrats in the House wanted to get rid of Tom DeLay. They did.

They got, in his place, John Boehner, a talented leader who will be very difficult to make into the pro-lobbyist, anti-reform monster the House Democrats are looking for.

Republicans will retain the House in the elections of 2006.

The prospect of victory just got bleaker yesterday for Democrats.

Oh, and apparently unemployment dropped to 4.7% last month - the lowest in four years. Heh.

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Mr. Right went ahead and assembled a scrapbook of all our favorite Leftis Democrats that we've come to know and love over the last few years. Al Franken is my personal favorite.

Check it out here. Heh.

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Check out Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Michael Burghardt.

This is the story behind the photo:

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7in knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week'."

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries — burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks — kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father — who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam — he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

I got this courtesy of an email from mfsil, and it's been fully vetted and authenticated by the Urband Legend-busting Snopes.com. Can I get a hearty "Boo-Yah!" for Gunny Burghardt or what?

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1 Hee hee hee - I got credit! I really would have liked it to have been worded, "hat tip, mfsil," but I'm just pleased to be recognized by the Academy... - Georgia Girl

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I'll be damned...if I can tell you...exactly what that is...but check out this... neat trick I can do...with my eyebrow! Doesn't it make me look...like The Rock?

Cyrus at Conservative Thought isn't buying it.

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Congratulations to Rep. John Boehner on his election as the new GOP Majority Leader.

I was hoping for John Shadegg, but in the long run it looks like it was Shadegg's candidacy that at least kept Blunt from getting the vote count he needed to win on the first ballot. The result forced a run-off and Shadegg bowed out, leaving Boehner the winner 122-109. Had Blunt be chosen it would have been a disaster and more of the same. At least this is a step in the right direction.

Boehner is committed to reform, has no taint of Abramoff and - to his credit - has not introduced one single spending earmark during his entire service in the Congress. Hugh Hewitt posts highlights of his Jan. 16th interview with Boehner.

Now if I can just restrain myself from referring to him as "boner"...

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Dick Morris must love poking sticks at his former client, Hillary Clinton. And he's one of the few people that knows her so well and isn't afraid to cross her. It must drive her insane. His column today talks about the NY Senator's lack of, shall we say, "range":

Bill Clinton — the man whom Bush recently described as his “brother” — is capable of a wide range of rhetorical styles and does not need harshness to convey passion. A raise of his eyebrow often suffices. A nod of his head. A properly constructed glance. But the woman who, by deduction, is apparently the president’s sister-in-law is not as capable. Indeed, she has two rhetorical styles: coy and strident. Off and on. Soft and loud.

And lately she has been running as though it is 2008 already, hitting Bush every day over everything. But the pace is wearing off the artificial veneer of civility she had managed to paint over her partisan fangs and leaving her image back in the dog days of Healthcare Hillary. Too soon, she is unveiling her true personality. She is getting overexposed.

Of course, sheÂ’s got a tough problem. To accept a lower profile in a time of war and political heat would be to let others pass her by. She has mousetrapped herself into backing the war policy her party detests and must be visibly out there on all other issues to compensate.

But the more she raises the political pressure, the more she grates on America like nails on a blackboard. And we have three more years of this to look forward to.

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I can't believe I missed this. At long last, Margi Lowry has given birth to her baby boy! Congrats, Margi!!

She shares the story here. Get Kleenex!

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This guy's been doing this so long he doesn't even care which end of the little rodent he displays for the cameras.

On a side note, every time I watch the movie, "Groundhog Day", I like it better than the last time. Jonah Goldberg digs one out of the archives that takes a "deep" look at the underlying themes of this film. Fascinating.

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Peggy Noonan has written a column today in OpinionJournal.com about how Democrats illustrated during the SOTU speech that the only thing they'll "stand" for is blocking reform. Whenever the President and the GOP majority try to enact something, the opposition's attitude is akin to the refrain of Groucho Marx's character Professor Wagstaff in the movie "Horse Feathers":

And they have to be, because the Angry Left is watching. Noonan's analysis of how the Democrat's are self-destructing is spot on.

Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are real. But the Democratic Party seems to be near imploding, and for that most humiliating of reasons: its meaninglessness. Republicans are at least arguing over their meaning.
The venom is bubbling on websites like Kos, where Tuesday afternoon, after the Alito vote, various leftists wrote in such comments as "F--- our democratic leaders," "Vichy Democrats" and "F--- Mary Landrieu, I hope she drowns." The old union lunch-pail Democrats are dead, the intellects of the Kennedy and Johnson era retired or gone, and this--I hope she drowns--seems, increasingly, to be the authentic voice of the Democratic base.

How will a sane, stable, serious Democrat get the nomination in 2008 when these are the activists to whom the appeal must be made?

Republicans have crazies. All parties do. But in the case of the Democrats--the leader of their party, after all, is the unhinged Howard Dean--the lunatics seem increasingly to be taking over the long-term health-care facility. Great parties die this way, or show that they are dying.

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Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter Seven is posted.

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Even people like me who've never seen a single episode say it's the best show on television. Wanna know why? Because Jack Bauer is the number one terrorist-killing badass that ever lived.

And here's the Top 60 Facts About Jack Bauer. Pretty damn funny. If you do watch "24", they're probably even funnier.

Yips to Robbo (who hasn't seen the show either).

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Yeah, I know I said I was "taking the day off" but that's like saying I think I'm gonna start eating tortilla chips without salsa con queso.

Anyway, I went through my prediction of what Bush would say last night to see how I did.

Click "read more" to find out. more...

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Yeah, a real one. Not measured in months. One year ago today I set up the old site on Blogsnot. Man, has it really been a whole year?

I think I'll take the day off to celebrate.

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