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Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine Trade Barbs in Downton Abbey Clips
The third season of the hit show Downton Abbey won’t premiere on PBS in the U.S. until January 6, 2013, but Britain’s ITV posted clips from the new season on its...
Reading While Eating for June 27: Fine Art and Funny Art
RIP, Nora Ephron: As a tribute, check out the filmmaker’s best big-screen moments. (TIME.com) There’s Always Money in the Bluths: An LA gallery is hosting an...
Bernie: (Jack) Black Comedy About Real-Life Murder
On a November day in 1996, the most esteemed resident of Carthage, Texas, undertaker Bernie Tiede, shot and killed its least loved local, Marjorie Nugent. She...
Valentine's Day: A Soggy Love Note
Set in Los Angeles on February 14th, Valentine's Day features at least a dozen big names and nearly as many interwoven story lines. It's an American Love...
The Best Year Of Her Lives
COVER STORY Shirley MacLaine, at 50, is still a rising star It gets applause, even gasps, night after night. It is a simple chorus-girl kick, the torso tilting...
A Letter From The Publisher: May 14, 1984
Senior Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka, who interviewed Shirley MacLaine for this week's cover story, did not originally envision herself in the role of a...
Cinema: Spin And Sizzle
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE Directed by Mike Nichols Screenplay by Carrie Fisher Let's get the dish over with quickly. Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is a drug-...
Show Business: Shirley MacLaine on the Move
The face is 42 now, and wrinkles cut lightly through the freckles. The legs are tantalizingly fit, but the right heel is blistered, bandaged and slippered, the...
Living: New Age Harmonies
"Let us not walk the path of life in darkness but shed your light upon the path so that we may clearly see the power of your glory forever." Those words of...
Books: Peking Duck
YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE by SHIRLEY MacLAINE 249 pages. Norton. $7.95. Actress Shirley MacLaine lost her fear of flying long before Erica Jong's heroine...
Show Business: The Other Star in the Family
A few hours before his sister Shirley MacLaine won her Oscar, Warren Beatty brought her a gift. Or, rather, he left it at the office of her agent and asked that...
A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 7, 1987
When New York Correspondent Mary Cronin began her reporting for this week's cover story on New Age phenomena, she was momentarily dismayed to learn that some of...
Letters: Jun. 4, 1984
Still Nifty at 50 To the Editors: Shirley MacLaine [SHOW BUSINESS, May 14] is a bright star with lots of twinkle. She has everything togetherher body, mind...
Cinema: Sisters Under the Skin
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT Directed and Written by James L. Brooks The movie begins with anxious, ferocious Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the...
Show Business: The Night off the Great Prom
James Brooks'Terms of Endearment wins five Oscars Over the past decade and a half, James Brooks, 43, has made a career out of writing and producing such...
Cinema: Abstinence on the Trail
Shirley MacLaine's screen career careens from pillow to lamppost. She specializes in playing lovable, indomitable whores (Some Came Running, Irma La Douce, Sweet...
Cinema: Vile Bodies
LOVING COUPLES Directed by Jack Smight Screenplay by Martin Donovan This is an attempt to cash in comically on the recent fashion especially not ed in...
Cinema: Gotta Dance
THE TURNING POINT Directed by Herbert Ross Screenplay by Arthur Laurents You yield to The Turning Point relucantly, knowing well that it is conning youwith...
Cinema: MacLaine Goes for Broke
What a Way to Go! is five or six big, splashy movies rolled into none. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a pair of permanently show-struck Broadway...
Cinema: 7X1=0
Woman Times Seven is an ill-advised attempt to improve upon the mathematical formula of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In that film, Sophia Loren played three...
