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Some excerpts from recent interviews with Shirley about Lifetime’s upcoming movie. Coco Chanel airs on Lifetime Television on September 13th From PremiumHollywood.com blog Third panel: the Coco Chanel biopic, starring Shirley MacLaine. I fell asleep watching it, frankly, but it wasn’t MacLaine’s fault. The flick covers Chanel’s entire life, and the bit that lost me was when it was exploring the early years. But MacLaine was such a stitch during the panel that I’m just going to close out this entry by listing my top 10 favorite comments. 10. “Audrey (Hepburn) and I talked about many things. I tried to teach her how to cuss. It didn’t work. She tried to teach me how to dress. It didn’t work. But in the process of our time together on ‘The Children’s Hour,’ she and I were talking about the contradictions, the ambition, the need for love, the search for beauty, et cetera, that fashion designers had because I didn’t know much about fashion, and she told me that I should play Coco Chanel, and I said, ‘Well, Coco Chanel was little and scrunched over and very short.”‘And she said, ‘No, but the spirit of the woman is what matches your spirit.’ Now, I found Coco to be everything between generous and rude, so I don’t know what Audrey really meant. But she was right.” 9. “Someone looked on the Internet and found a picture of me at a Chanel collection. I was in my 20s or 30s, something like that, but I don’t remember having been there. But, then, I don’t remember much, anyway, these days.” 8. On the similarities between herself and Coco Chanel: “Well, I think we’re both colorful. I think we’re both rude. I think we’re both spontaneous. We both can’t hold what we feel to be the honest opinion in. I think we both have talent. And I think we both are probably dead.” 7. Writer: What’s wrong with Hollywood? Shirley MacLaine: Oh, please. Meet me later. Writer: Over a drink? Shirley MacLaine: Takes more than that, babe. 6. “I like playing in Canada. You know, I’m half Canadian. The bottom half.” 5. Writer: Why wouldn’t you ask Shirley MacLaine to have a French accent? Shirley MacLaine: I wouldn’t have done it. That’s why. I’m not Meryl Streep. 4. On actors who try to upstage each other: “I never learned that art and didn’t care about learning that art. And the whole idea of where the punch line is, and you can interrupt the punch line so they have to go to you, stuff like that, that’s…that’s like George Bush in the White House. That’s not something I would do.” 3. “I’d always wanted to do a jewelry collection, and I put them together after I finished (’Coco Chanel’). And I made all these. Do you like them? Aren’t these interesting? It’s called sky jewelry. They go on the tops of the fingers, and these are all reflections of the chakras and our inner power. Should I give you a seminar? All right, everybody close their eyes…which is probably not going to change much of what you’re doing.” 2. Writer: To a young person who would go and study your career, which three movies would you say, “Look at those first. They’re my best roles”? Shirley MacLaine: Oh, what an interesting question. “The Apartment,” because it’s a testimonial to looping. I looped all the crying scenes, you know, and got nominated (for an Oscar). I think “Terms of Endearment,” because it’s the accomplishment of comedy and drama, and it was a very turbulent set that may or may not have contributed to the success of the movie. Do I have to do three? Okay. How about “Coco”? There should be more about her in her elder years, so that we could make a good feature film of the truth. Writer: I have to ask: what do you mean by that? Shirley MacLaine: Figure it out. Over the drink we’re having. 1. On whether Coco Chanel was a lesbian: “Just because you play the whole field doesn’t mean you’re a lesbian.” 
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