Article: Glenn Close costars in Showtime remake of `A Lion in Winter'.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)

Byline: Luaine Lee

PASADENA, Calif. _ It took her a while, but actress Glenn Close finally proved to audiences she could be sexy.

"I think there was one role that changed how I was perceived by the public _ that was `Fatal Attraction.' In a way I suppose that changed me," says Close, who's dressed today in a tailored black-and-white pinstripe pantsuit and white blouse.

"I was first perceived as Jennie Fields in `The World According to Garp,' this kind of asexual, controlled, eccentric woman," says Close, easing her thin frame into a wooden cabriolet in a hotel room here.

"And I went from there to the mother figure in `The Big Chill' ...

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