# When did Kathleen Turner become Tallulah Bankhead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296 "2005-05-10T23:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/1 "2005-05-10T23:20:02Z")
Watching the repeat of last night’s Daily Show. I don’t remember Kathleen Turner being a near-dead-on soundalike of Tallulah. The accent isn’t quite there but other than that it’s eerie. When did that happen? She’s even got the laugh. Along the same lines, what the hell happened to Brooke Shields’ nose? I saw her on Oprah at the gym and her nose looked sharp enough to slice paper. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/2 "2005-05-10T23:34:52Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Along the same lines, what the hell happened to Brooke Shields’ nose? I saw her on Oprah at the gym and her nose looked sharp enough to slice paper. Brooke Shields was on Oprah at the gym? Man, you go to a messed-up gym. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/3 "2005-05-11T00:41:36Z")
You do know that Turner played Bankhead in a one-woman play, right? This repeat may have been during her New York run, where she may have been (consciously or no) speaking in many of the same affectations. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/4 "2005-05-11T02:02:13Z")
I did not know that KT played TB. The Daily Show repeat was from yesterday, and KT is currently playing Martha in the revival of _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_. I call twee on **Miller**. While I was at the gym one day last week, _The Oprah Winfrey Show_ was on one of the televisions. Brooke Shields was her guest. Brooke’s nose looked like a Nagel painting. Better? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/5 "2005-05-11T02:04:28Z")
I thought it was funny when Jon asked her if she was a smoker. I thought to myself “Duh! Listen to that voice!” I bet she stinks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/6 "2005-05-11T02:06:26Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > … > I call twee on **Miller** … Anthoer twee. Great, yet another Dope thing I don’t get. Anyway, Kathleen has always had a deep husky voice, it just seems to have gotten a bit huskier as she’s aged. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/7 "2005-05-11T02:49:09Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > This repeat may have been during her New York run, where she may have been (consciously or no) speaking in many of the same affectations. As I recall, the play in question closed on the road, and did not have a New York run. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/8 "2005-05-11T03:04:57Z")
As soon as I heard her, Tallulah Bankhead! popped into my head. It would have been funny - mean, but funny - for Stewart to do the interview in a falsetto. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/9 "2005-05-11T05:21:43Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Anthoer twee. Great, yet another Dope thing I don’t get. [From whence cometh “twee.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315282) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/10 "2005-05-11T11:33:45Z")
I don’t think anyone who’s using it in that thread really gets what “twee” means. (Unless they’re all doing it on purpose for the sake of silliness.) It really means [Donovan-like](http://discosantigos.com/Late%20Sixties/1968_AGift.html). ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/11 "2005-05-11T12:01:09Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > [From whence cometh “twee.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315282) [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262175) is an older funnier Thread dealling with the term “twee”. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-kathleen-turner-become-tallulah-bankhead/303296/12 "2005-05-11T15:39:02Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > As I recall, the play in question closed on the road, and did not have a New York run. Ah. I actually saw it in SF so assumed it had hit the Great White Way at some point.