In this feature, I'll share a guest with you all each week,
and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Shirley MacLaine
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
So Many Lives.
ReplyDeleteIrma-Charity-"Ouizer"
ReplyDeleteWarren Beatty's sister.
ReplyDeleteQuirky, zestful, lively.
ReplyDeleteFabulous Fabulous, Exciting!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a livewire!
ReplyDeleteI love her!
ReplyDeleteTalented Interesting Wacky
ReplyDeleteOn A Limb
ReplyDeleteFabulous diva extraordinaire!
ReplyDeleteAdore her. Jx
Barely hanging on
ReplyDeleteTerms of Endearment
ReplyDeleteZany Odd Ball
ReplyDeleteIconic ,Versatile, Eccentric
ReplyDeletedifficult, prima donna
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ReplyDeleteClass act, intelligent.
ReplyDeleteCan I just take this oppo to relate a story about her. Having then just seen her fabulous one-woman show in London in the early 90s, in a packed-out theatre, then London's biggest - a little later she also appeared on the U.K.'s best known T.V. talk show (host Michael Parkinson) co-guesting with Diana Ross and then one of our country's best known and generally well-liked comedians, a Mel Smith (now long-time deceased) who wasn't well-known outside this country. He'd been completely bald all his adult life. It was clear that Shirley had no idea who he was and, most unfortunately, she took to baiting him, it seems, for his baldness, and took to repeatedly slapping him on the back his head and laughing. Mel was trying to restrain his plain and quite justified annoyance, till he just yelled "GET OFF!" at her. Ms Ross then broke off her conversation with Parkinson, and gently said "Shirley, I don't think you should be doing that. If it was a man doing it to a woman it wouldn't be tolerated". You should have seen Shirley shrink back speechless into her chair - spending the entire remainder of the programme glaring at Diana, looking daggers for having so publicly humiliated her. I don't think she said another word the entire programme. But Diana was absolutely right - and, as I say, a most unfortunate episode.
DeleteI've never heard that story but I heard she was not the easiest person to work with in Hollywood, getting down right insultive at times I heard. I think I would have expected some rumors to come out of the cast of Steel Magnolias, but I heard they all became very good friends on the set. It was in Terms of Endearment, that Shirley had issues. She had a lifelong squabble with Debra Winger. I understand their relationship was very antagonistic and volatile.
DeleteOooh! A public "slap-down" from Diana Ross! That would have been something to see... I obviously missed that episode of Parkinson. Jx
DeleteM.M. - I didn't know those other stories about her, but I suppose they are just par for the course for much of (most?) show-biz persons who can't keep their egos in check. It would have been more surprising if she had had better self-control which, I must say, is rather surprising that she hasn't, considering her well touted belief in, for want of a better phrase, I may call 'New Age' consciousness.
DeleteSuch a shame if she was that way. I have always adored her and so many of her films. What A Way to Go was where I fell in love with her. And The Apartment. Could it run in the family? At the end of the day but she and her brother are both a bit odd and eccentric. Difficult on sets, control over productions, and he with his affairs. But I hear her and Beatty still share a very close brother and sister relationship even during their professional paths. So that is something. I recently saw a picture of MacLaine on an outing....she appears, as Norma said above, to be barley hanging on.
DeleteI've just checked her age and seen that she's 11.5 years older even than myself. Hadn't thought she was THAT old! So, 'hanging on'? Yes, I can believe that she must be!
DeleteBtw: Never seen 'What a Way to Go', which I now must. But in all her films she always is the 'star' presence. Can't ignore her!
Charity Magnolias Postcards
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