Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
June 6 - 12, 2021 l 3
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Kathleen Turner
OF ‘THE KOMINSKY METHOD’ ON NETFLIX
How was it working with Michael
Douglas again on “The Kominsky
Method”? It was his idea that cast
you in Season 3, correct?
I think so. I know that he and (creator and
executive producer) Chuck Lorre discussed
it. You know, one of the things that I
understand is quite unusual though I don’t
have much experience or any experience
really doing series and Chuck Lorre wrote
every episode and evidently that isn’t
(usually) the case. But I’m very, very glad
he did. Michael and I just seem to have
a natural connection of some kind. It just
falls right in, you know?
You first met when you did
“Romancing the Stone” in 1983?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was producing as
well as starring in it and so we had a
meeting. He asked me out to lunch and
we talked about it and I think I had to go
in and do a film test to prove that I could be the wallflower that (her character, romance novelist
Joan Wilder) is at the beginning, the insecure woman. And so I went in without any makeup and in
tattered kind of clothes and stumbled over furniture. And he laughed and then said, “Yeah, OK.”
One of the iconic scenes from “Romancing” was the mudslide in the Columbian
rainforest but there were actual mudslides during filming. How was it dealing with
that?
Oh honey (laughs), it rained so much that we started calling it “Douglasland” because every
morning at 4 a.m., he’d have gravel trucks going in to try and lay down the road again. Oh, it
was just a mess. It was absolutely a mess – but fun (laughs).
BY JOHN CROOK
It’s about time
Questions:
1) “Life on Mars”
2) Imogene Coca
3) “The Time
Tunnel”
4) Jon-Erik Hexum
Answers:
Michael
Imperioli
1) Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol and Jason O’Mara
headed the talented cast of this 2008-09 ABC series
about a New York cop who awakens in 1973 after being
struck by a car. Can you name the show?
2) What cast member of “Your Show of Shows” played
a cavewoman in CBS’ 1966-67 time-travel sitcom “It’s
About Time”?
3) What 1966-67 Irwin Allen series featured James
Darren and Robert Colbert as scientists who become
lost in time while testing a new
invention?
4) Before his 1984 fatal shooting
accident, this model-turned-actor
played time-traveling Phineas Bogg
in the 1982-83 fantasy series
“Voyagers.” Can you name him?
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