In this uneven but likably unslick romantic comedy – a feature debut for director and co-writer Dan Algrant – Kathleen Turner really heats up her small role as Dana Coles, a sexy pot-head from TV soaps with a yen to get back onstage. "Are you a boy or a man?" she asks young playwright Jake Briggs (Eric Stoltz). "Don't worry," she says, seeing his confusion, "I'mpartial to both."

Jake, however, is partial to Joanne (Mary-Louise Parker), the photographer he met in college and lives with in Cambridge, Mass. While Jake's in New York getting his play produced and fending off advances from Dana and Chris (a surprisingly intriguing Ralph Macchio), Joanne is back home being seduced by her boss, Elliot (Timothy Dalton).

Naked, which includes coyly whimsical interludes of Jake chatting to himself and visions from his past, feels like several small films in one. It's not surprising, since Algrant, a former student of Martin Scorsese (Naked' s executive producer), is an award-winning maker of small films. The grittily comic section about the theater works well, as does any scene with the beguiling Parker. Though Algrant shows promise, the rest is a mess.

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.