Elizabeth was no fool, and Mike was no cheap-skate. I sometimes wondered what a roll in the hay would cost him. I remember one night, shortly after Mike had died in a tragic plane crash, Elizabeth had taken up with Eddie Fisher. She asked me to sit with her at a small table, next to a candle-lit patio. She was drinking champagne from a sparkling crystal glass. Very subtly, she positioned herself between me and the outside candles.
She began to talk quietly about her love for Mike, and why Eddie meant so much to her because of his relationship with Mike. Her violet eyes welled with tears as she held her glass close to her face.
As the tears were about to fall, she moved her champagne glass under her eyes. Her tears splashed like diamonds into the champagne as she talked about missing Mike. It all worked because her words were true, and because she used her extensive experience in front of the camera to accentuate her emotions. When I was a teenager I was embarrassed by my red hair and freckles, and I had a tiny birthmark under my left arm which today I hardly notice.
I never cared how I looked or how I dressed until I was about So I had my face lifted. I loved how I looked afterwards. I became quite enamoured of my face, and preferred to have dinner wherever there were mirrors. At a party once, the hostess served cocaine in a silver bowl. I thought it was a sugar substitute and put a spoonful of it in my coffee.
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Andrey Konchalovskiy. Frank Sinatra. Steve Parker. Yves Montand. Alain Delon. Danny Kaye. Kevin McClory. Pete Hamill. She was a rat-pack mascot, friends with all of them though girlfriend to none. She had started on Broadway as a hoofer. She was known to be the girl with great legs but a funny face. If you look back at those films now, she was striking: her performances had real guts and stamina.
It's odd that she says she didn't have her act together when she was doing so well. To get my act together, I realised I had to look more within myself - and I did.
How am I supposed to remember what pictures I was doing then? I can't remember much of anything, quite frankly, which I'm very happy about in many ways because it means I can live totally in the now.
It's hard to believe she doesn't remember making The Apartment, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. She doesn't remember much about Terms of Endearment, for which she won an Oscar in I have to be more in the now in order to know what I'm doing. She must remember something of who she was before.
What's the most interesting thing that's changed about her? She pauses to consider the accuracy of her answer. Not to be successful, but to be creative - and also I was very involved in relationships, particularly men. I had all of these fabulous relationships.
I learnt a great deal through them, and now I want more of a relationship with nature and with ruminating and remembering and dreaming, and so forth. I don't like to socialise much. It's a big deal for me to come into town because I live on a ranch in New Mexico.
She also has a place in Malibu by the ocean. She doesn't like the toxicity of the traffic in Beverly Hills. There's some really creative people living and working here I adore. Particularly if they're eccentric. I used to be disturbed by eccentrics; now I welcome them. Is that because she is one of them? The guys would call me up and say we want two or three Shirleys tonight and I would help them. Isn't that weird? What I found really humiliating were jokes about me that people didn't laugh at.
Robin Williams once did a whole Oscar show ripping off my channelling. Oh, he was hysterical. It's not that Shirley MacLaine looks or doesn't look 73, but when she grins she has a mesmeric sparkle. What does she mean exactly when she says she used to be really involved in relationships, pursuing men?
She used to find men intriguing. She had many affairs and an odd year marriage to film producer-turned-businessman Steve Parker - they weren't really together for a lot of it. There was an intense three-year affair with Robert Mitchum.
There was Danny Kaye and Yves Montand, and she always had a fascination for politicians, including Andrew Peacock, who at the time was Australia's foreign minister. Her search for the definition of love was quite thorough. Did she never enjoy monogamy? Although I am a serial monogamist. There are three sets of people where sex is concerned. The promiscuous, which I was not; the total monogamist, which I was not; and the serial monogamist, who has very deep but intense relationships while you are in them.
I guess I learned what I needed to learn from them and then I usually fixed it so they would move on, not me. I didn't like the guilt of moving away from them. I'm a middle-class girl from Virginia.
I don't handle guilt well. But I'm over the hill now,' she says, not particularly sadly. Is it true she never had her heart broken? A long pause. She whispers, 'Yes, that's true. My heart would be broken, shattered, if something happened to my dog though. I take her everywhere, and you know, we've had a talk. She's going to live till about and then she'll come back again and it'll be up to me to find her.
Terry is a rat terrier with a mischievous nature not dissimilar to her owner's. She says they are both very independent spirits, loyal but individual. And Terry is 'almost androgynous, that's why she has an androgynous name'. She could talk about her dog all day. She swallowed a diamond ring once. It hasn't come out yet. She's commandeered for her a special coat which says she is a therapy dog, which allows her in forbidden places like aeroplanes.
I tell her I would very much like my dog to come back, but how will I recognise him? He might come back as a person. People come back as people, dogs come back as dogs. Was it a lap dog, your dog? Did he do lapping? I tell her the story of my poodle and how he died, how I told him he didn't have to hang on for me and we would always know each other, how he arched his neck up, took his last breath and died in my arms.
She is crying. She wipes her tears away. Any slivers of brusqueness are gone. It's still a conundrum, though, why she should write books about love and say she doesn't know heartbreak.
But maybe she has forgotten it. It's set during the Second World War, with MacLaine's character the love interest of three men, until one of them dies when his bomber crashes into Belfast's Cave Hill. The mechanics of the triangle are told both in the present and in the past, and MacLaine gives us a woman who is distanced by life, hardened until a breakthrough moment when she allows herself to feel.
I doubt it was hard for her to access that dislocation. She says the pain of the separation from her dog helped her to support Attenborough, who was grieving for the daughter and granddaughter he lost in the Asian tsunami of Through her dog she can access hurt. She tried to teach me then; I didn't learn very well. She's come back and I'm learning better. She and Attenborough are old friends. They met in when they played husband and wife in The Bliss of Mrs Blossom.
She whispers: 'Do you think people will like this movie? It meant such a lot to him. It's really his story. Perhaps it was his release. Many of the key players in MacLaine's world have been around in previous lives. I did learn from my parents, though - that was fairly complete. I ended up at a Spanish military installation. Man, I didn't know where I was.
My parents came back to guide me to the trail.
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