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NOT QUITE A BOUQUET Kathleen Turner's memoir Send Yourself Roses skirts around some thorny topics

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Writer: Kathleen Turner; Genres: Autobiography, Nonfiction; Publisher: Springboard Press
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By Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca watches ''Days of Our Lives'' religiously and thinks washing dishes by hand is the cheapest form of therapy on earth.

Send Yourself Roses is neither the consummate bio this brassy actress deserves nor the score-settling screed its PR suggests, though Burt Reynolds, William Hurt, and Christie Brinkley are advised not to read it. Kathleen Turner best renders her itinerant childhood, struggle with rheumatoid arthritis, and midlife stage career. But she overdoes the generic girl-power advice (''Don't Repeat Your Successes'') and glosses over duds like V.I. Warshawski, which is tossed aside with this zinger: ''I will not work with Disney again. I don't like their product or how they treat people, and that's that.'' Yes, I guess it is. B-


Posted Feb 08, 2008
 

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