Kathryn Joosten, who plays Wisteria Lane's cranky snoop Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, is battling a recurrence of lung cancer.
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Doctors found a spot on the 69-year-old Joosten's left lung during a recent physical. She was previously diagnosed with the disease in 2001, but went into remission after surgery, without having to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Joosten, who is also known...
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Fresh off their Emmy wins at the Creative Arts ceremony, Kathryn Joosten, Cynthia Nixon and Glynn Turman will make the trek to the big show to present at the Primetime Emmy Awards.Joosten won her second guest actress Emmy for Desperate Housewives, while Nixon was honored for her multiple personality turn on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Turman won for his stint on In Treatment.Other stars set to present are nominees Alec Baldwin, Glenn Close, Sally Field, Sandra Oh and Ricky Gervais. Funnyman Craig Ferguson, former TV President Martin Sheen and Lipstick Jungle-r Brooke Shields are also confirmed to present.Pairings are also coming together: TV icons Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White will present together, as will Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Here's hoping if they do comedy actor again, the winner will actually be Steve Carell.The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards airs 8pm/ET Sunday on ABC. — Joyce EngRelated• Griffin and Silverman are Effin' Emmy Winners• Opra...
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A missing persons case is going to vex Wisteria Lane — except it involves not so much a human, but a pet.Kathryn Joosten, aka Desperate Housewives' Karen McCluskey, tells TVGuide.com that Toby (the late Ida's cat) mysteriously goes missing this season. Have Andrew's sociopath tendencies returned? Did Orson mow down the tabby with his car? Or is one of Season 5's new characters — Gale Harold's Jackson or Neal McDonough's Dave — responsible for the cat-astrophe? "This season's going to have a lot of mysteries and subplots," says Joosten, noting that Mrs. McCluskey has a knack for sniffing out the rat among the new arrivals. "Karen is the only one who can see [the real him]," says the Emmy winner and 2008 nominee.We spoke to Joosten at the opening of Petco Place, a Hollywood shelter that gives homeless individuals a spot to house furry friends. "If I were on the street and was told, ‘You can come to the shelter, but you can't bring Elliot [Joosten's 18-year-old cat]...
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Question: I was excited to see Kathryn Joosten make the unofficial Top 10 for the Emmys' best guest actress category. I think she was brilliant on Desperate Housewives this season, especially in the last pre-strike episode. Her delivery of Ida's eulogy was pitch-perfect, sweet without being overly sentimental, and the way she ran from the cops in the baseball field was priceless. I guess I don't really have a question here; just wanted to say I'm rooting for her.
Answer: Me too. I've adored this actress since she made her mark as the president's invaluable secretary on The West Wing (still haven't got over her death), and she brightens every show wise enough to bring her on board. They tend to use her very well on Desperate Housewives, and I'm glad the Academy has taken notice again (having awarded her a guest Emmy in 2005). Sometimes they actually get one right ...
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Thursday on The View, Whoopi Goldberg will get assistance in her mission to give up cigarettes in the form of Mrs. McCluskey, aka Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten. "I'm a lung-cancer survivor — six years cancer-free! — so I'm going to talk to her about quitting smoking," Joosten tells us of her visit, which coincides with the Great American Smokeout and National Cancer Month. "Whoopi's got a target date, and we've got tips on how to make it easier to quit."Joosten's busy week continues Friday when she reports to NBC's Las Vegas to play "a bingo-obsessed old lady," as she puts it. "What's not to love?" she says of the guest gig. "B-9! G-44!" — With reporting by Michael Maloney
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