Nicolas Cage and Kathleen Turner have kissed and made up, which, granted, isn't as hot a mental image as it might have been some years ago. You might expect that two people who starred opposite each other in Peggy Sue Got Married would have the same kind of hard-won, mutual devotion that guys have in movies after they've seen combat together, but Turner enraged Cage with her memoir, Send Yourself Roses: My Life, Love and Leading Roles, in which she claimed that, during the shooting of the Coppola misfire, he was arrested twice for driving drunk and also got into trouble with the law "for stealing a Chihuahua." Cage, who in the words of his lawyer Simon Smith "has never been arrested for drink driving, dog theft or anything else," filed suit against Turner in Britian, famous for its plaintiff-friendly libel laws, after an excerpt from her book appeared in the Daily Mail. Smith added that, "As an actor who stars in many family-friendly films"--apparently the star of Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas, and Face/Off is under the impression that he's Dean Jones--"and who has a young child and teenager of his own, Mr Cage was understandably upset at having been wrongly depicted as condoning that sort of reckless, dangerous and criminal behaviour."
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