Shirley MacLaine is cool

my wife LOVES her

she has led a way interesting life and been in a lot of great movies

I could tell you were a man of distinction

however, she also wrote a book from the POV of her dog

Search: The Apartment, Sweet Charity, Being There

also that TV movie about the Salem Witch Trials where she makes a rather odd display of her 80-year-old nekkid body

yes i saw part of the Apartment on tV once and it looked so great!

haha what's this book?? must investigate this

also one of two Oscar-winning actresses to call Letterman an asshole on his show

she calls her pets "fur people"

ha =) i was watching her last night and realized that she seems like an actress with a lot of integrity, whatever exactly that means. that's the feeling i got

also one of two Oscar-winning actresses to call Letterman an asshole on his show

haha waht!? youtube link please!

If Shirley MacLaine did not crinkle her eyes when she smiled, there might never have been a Shirley MacLaine. Her greatest talent is the ability to be visibly enjoying herself. That is something. It is a more noteworthy talent than many celebs and actors have. It makes her very likeable -- in a broad, unfocused sort of way.

so true! like, i want to hang out with her so bad

she used to be so cute

she's good in a bunch of bad movies too (Terms of Endearment springs to mind, also kinda funny in Steel Magnolias which is otherwise unwatchable)

slocki otm, she was fkn adorable back in the day

yeah her look in The Apartment is completely classic.

xpost I totally love Steel Magnolias.

http://www.movieactors.com/freezeframes33/apartment134.jpeg

so cute!

it must be said, i LOVE the entire movie steel magnolias. but then, a sappy gay man absolutely would. and yes she was GREAT.
Terms i haven't seen recently enough, but i thought ppl loved it?

this movie is actually way funnier than it has any right to be and looks amazing to boot

ya she's def one of those breathtakingly-attractive-when-they-were-younger ppl

people do love Terms but Nicholson was way boring by then and the whole CANCER twist is cheap

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/17/17_images/whatawaytogo1.jpg

It says a lot about her conviction and intelligence that she made her hopeless scenes with Cameron Diaz in In Her Shoes a delight to watch.

The wrong actress won the Oscar for Terms of Endearment, however.

her middle-aged horndogs act with Nicholson in Terms of Endearment is pretty good. ("Kill that BUG that crawled up your ASS")

also see her playing young Jerry Lewis' love interest in Artists & Models!

http://foto3.com/ebay/artists&models.jpg

omg ARtists and MOdels i caught some of once, so fantastic, except i remember some kind of blackface dance number scene?

"what a way to go" looks great

she's pretty proto-indie in apt

oof I think we got rid of our copy of Artists and Models - too much Jerry Lewis idiot-manchild schtick

she is great and crazy yaay

xp

But he's a COMICS fan in it!! and actually testifies before Congress "people think I'm a little retarded"!

contrary to popular belief, not everything that involves comic books is interesting

http://www.ryerson.ca/fcad/images/shirleymaclaine.jpe

ugh SO HOT

she is also pretty good (altho not at all French) in Irma La Duce

she hung out with the Rat Pack w/out sleeping with any of them? (her scene with Dean is the funniest thing in the original Ocean's 11)

that's what she says but yeah sounds kinda hard to believe

She may have slept with Warren Beatty.

ew

they don't really look alike, huh?

no no she slept with NED Beatty

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1032/1800_0013.jpg

i used to think warren beatty was sexy. should i regret this?

i need an image for the rat pack i'm not placing any faces now, which i know is probably shameful

waht

http://mysite.verizon.net/res0qaye/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/rat-pack.jpg

why should you regret it? he's one of the bestlooking people ever.

xpost about beatty

he is? he looks like a bucktoothed galoot to me (and I like him!)

http://www.porthalcyon.com/features/200411/images/ratpack01_1.jpg

he is

xpost about beatty again

I did not know finding Warren Beatty, especially circa 1961, attractive was a controversial opinion. ILX is weird.

haha i dunno i can see how his face wouldn't be considered attractive. i always thought he had some kind of weird sex appeal, kind of like billy bob thornton but more handsome.

huh my wife is a huge Shirly fan and as a result I've seen a ton of her films - never even heard of this one though.

S: What a Way To Go, just for the cast alone

desperate characters is a seriously creepy book

Desperate characters is a super classic book! Had no idea they made a movie of it

I imagine it's pretty obscure--I didn't know it was on dvd til like a month ago (the disk dropped in 2008). The transfer is real grainy, with a good bit of scratches and lines--just like watching a print in a theatre! Maybe because of this, I started thinking about how many people actually saw the film at the time. Seemed like a tough sell when you had the choice to see Airport, MASH, Five Easy Pieces or any number of foriegn flicks ths one was emulating.

IMDB sez the budget was $400,000 in 1970 dollars, which I guess with inflation is comprable to a high-profile indie movie today.

I also learned there that Desparate Characters was one of only 5 movies MacLaine acted in during the 70s.

A poster:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/2571post.jpg

shit

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/2571post.jpg

I wrote about how much I liked this on some other thread. There's an excellent review out there by Stanley Kauffmann if you can find it--it's collected in Living Images. One thing he singled out was the party scene, saying something like it was the rare movie with a party comprised of educated people that didn't try to make everyone look pretentious and ridiculous.

The party scene is fab, although the token hippie couple (the female half-Carol Kane!) do come off as ridiculous (though that may have been the point).

Interesting bit of trivia from the site I swiped that poster img from:

While the movie received many favorable and respectful reviews, critic John Simon viciously attacked the film and took great pleasure in trashing the (fine) performance of Kenneth Mars; he was literally offended by the idea that the actor who played Franz Liebkind in The Producers could dare essay such a serious role. [I wish I could find the piece; the frequently irascible critic was completely out of control here.] Mars fired back the best way he could. Already cast as the comic villain in What's Up Doc?, Mars huddled with Peter Bogdanovich and tinkered with the already impossibly rude, annoying character, giving him an obscure Slavic accent and changing his surname to... Simon.

i was surprised to see him as the male lead tbh but v interested to see what he does in a non-melbrooks role

Coming to Downton Abbey

Loved her in The Apartment, What A Way to Go and adored her in Some Came Running.

The only book I ever read of hers was The Camino:A Journey of the Spirit and didn't find it out there or overly hoaky.

I like how the sound of her jewelry clanking amplifies her emoting in S.C.R..

I was also surprised to learn (in the interview on the dvd) that Anna Karina was a big fan of Shirl and the film, and the little stuffed animal purse she carries in Pierrot le fou was a tribute to her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emw_ehL5EF4

JLG & French crix loved Some Came Running

Yeah, I knew that. What I found surprising was that the homage was something Karina herself brought to the table.

was she married to Godard then? they probly watched it together.

Shirley's role in this Linklater misfire is rather thankless.

AVClub interview:

I live pretty simply. I don’t have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant....

I loved Vincente (Minnelli). I loved him, but I’m different than Frank and Dean. The night we were shooting outside in the carnival—remember the last scene in the movie? There was this huge Ferris wheel, and it had been lit and prepared, and everything was ready. And Vincente went over and looked through the lens, and instead of saying, “Move the camera,” he said, “Move the Ferris wheel.” That’s when Dean and Frank got on a plane and went back home. They thought that was so friggin’ ridiculous, and they were right!
... He didn’t say a word to me on the whole movie. He was busy directing whatever the drape was over my head. And I don’t know whether Dean and Frank—they just didn’t like a director who did that.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/shirley-maclaine-talks-about-bernie-alfred-hitchco,73047/

Different thread:

(The Possession of Joel Delaney) is on YouTube in full. it looks demented fyi
― piscesx, Monday, August 17, 2015 5:39 PM (3 days ago)

Sometimes--the séance-exorcism scene is, and the climactic final scene is too (dreadful, redeemed somewhat by a good though predictable final shot). The first half is generally pretty effective, and, as is pointed out in the Wikipedia summary, it's hard not to see this as a run-up to The Exorcist, above and beyond just the possession angle. (The same entry says this was "the last horror film Shirley MacLaine made." I don't know, did she make any others?) Robin Wood might have liked it, checking many of his boxes: sympathetic treatment of otherness (Puerto Ricans), nuclear-family breakdown, unresolved ending (unlike The Exorcist). That last scene really undermines the rest of the movie.

I had the year wrong in the other thread--it's '72, not '71.

is there a DVD of this? I ain't watchin youtubez

I paid $16 with shipping for a new one from Amazon. It'll be much cheaper for you--they're got used copies for $5 with shipping if you're in the States.

(The same entry says this was "the last horror film Shirley MacLaine made." I don't know, did she make any others?)

Obviously you haven't seen John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!.

I ain't watchin youtubez

the youtube looked pretty good on my tv when I watched this the other night fwiw

why wouldnt you watch a rare movie if its available on youtube smh

I don't watch shit on my computer it's annoying

neither do i, i watch it on my teevee

let me spell it out for you - my tv is not connected to youtube. I don't like watching things on my laptop, it is annoying to try and do that with more than one person.

this has been a public service announcement about my home av setup

http://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/B1051598091/RCA-Cable.jpg

https://cdn3.pcadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3280787/How_to_connect_laptop_to_TV_HDMI_1.jpg

or chromecast

Obviously you haven't seen John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Was going to make the same joke using either Guarding Tess or Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, but I haven't seen either, so my joke-censor intervened.

anyway I enjoyed this film and thanks for the tip, piscesx

my wife just read her daughter's tell-all ("Lucky Me") and ... yikes there was some Mommie Dearest level shit in there

my favorite part was how after Shirley marries her daughter's father (Sachi), he convinces her that he is being sent to the Pleides by NASA on a top secret mission, but will be leaving behind a clone of himself in Japan as a cover story, and he needs $50k/month to relay "telegrams" to his real astronaut self, which can't be sent through the gov't because it's so top secret. Meanwhile Sachi and Shirley put their daughter in a Japanese boarding school since neither of them are interested in being parents. Shirley gives him this monthly stipend for decades (and apparently this all came out much later, in their divorce settlement). Meanwhile Shirley refuses to give her daughter any money for college (or anything else) because she needs to "make it on her own". And then when the daughter tries to make it as an actress, Shirley undermines her by calling up directors/producers etc. saying her daughter shouldn't be hired. Plus Sachi sexually abuses her. Good times!

Shirley MacLaine is cool!

You don’t want to get into metaphysics with me. You don’t want to do that. That’s very important and takes a lot of study. But so much of this cyclical behavior depends on what’s happening with money. Money is our No. 1 priority, and that’s a shame. Easy for me to say — I’m rich.

<3 <3 <3

look out, Soto trying to gerrymander ILX

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stop linking to the NYT and making me waste my monthly allotment

Captioning...It would have been Jack Lemmon's birthday today, so I played the final scene from The Apartment for a grade 5 class. I had the captioning on: the first time Miss Kubelik was transcribed as "Miss Cubic," the second time "Miss Cube."

Do you know who played Fran Kubelik in the Original Broadway Cast?

Not a Broadway guy, so no--I assume the play was adapted from the film?

There was a stage musical inspired by it: Promises, Promises (book by Neil Simon, music & lyrics by Burt Bacharach & Hal David)

Art director Alexandre Trauner used forced perspective to create the set of a large insurance company office. The set appeared to be a very long room full of desks and workers; however, successively smaller people and desks were placed to the back of the room, ending up with children.

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https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5124885&t=w

Jerry Orbach & Jill O'Hara in Promises, Promises

They duet on "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", the only time it ever gets performed that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Ljt6e9TaA

^one of my favorite things ever!

i want to see a current pic of her. the 'let a young corpse' is very funny.

pic from 2019 here: https://www.womansworld.com/posts/aging/shirley-maclaine-perfect-life-171840

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-Cl-PgoWw