

She’s very, very brave, and she doesn’t ever really give up. “I’ve been thinking about doing Maggie for a long time – for years, I think. “It’s a great role, period,” Turner declares with emphatic enthusiasm. It actually comes to pass this month when Turner stars, in her glamorous and predatory fashion, as Maggie the Cat, prowling through Tennessee William’s 1955 Pulitzer Prize–winner about Southern-fried avarice and mendacity. She turned instant star her first time on film - as the tragically literal femme fatale of the 1981’s Body Heat - and she has been circling for a Broadway opening ever since. A little Body Heat is being applied to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof these days in the shapely, silk-slipped form of Kathleen Turner, hiking the theatre temperature appreciably.
