"Finally I'm the weird old man I always wanted to be"
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You are famous, wealthy and a famed star - is aging so much easier for you?
Shirley MacLaine: Tell me you want to know if I've had a lift before!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: As you wish. Did you let yourself be lifted?
Shirley MacLaine: I straightened my neck a bit because I did not want to walk around like a wrinkled turtle anymore. And the hanging bags are gone too. But that's it!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Have you ever disturbed the many freckles on your arms, neck and over your bosom?
Shirley MacLaine: Why should she? I also have freckles in my face, but I'll cover them up. Incidentally, I worry relatively little about how I look.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: But you certainly look in the mirror after getting up in the morning ...
Shirley MacLaine: I'm shortsighted. That makes things easier for me. So also the statement that I looked better. Incidentally, I never found myself particularly attractive.
I'm nearsighted. That makes it easier that I looked better.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Then what did the famous men with whom you had an affair find: Yves Montand, Robert Mitchum, Danny Kaye, Dean Martin - just to name a few?
Shirley MacLaine: I think she fascinated my boyish nature and temperament. Maybe they were just curious if I'm just as spirited and funny in love ?!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Is it you?
Shirley MacLaine: Even to you I do not tie that up, discreet as I am.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Their love affairs have always been short-lived - why?
Shirley MacLaine: Because they were born of opportunity rather than love. I often spent weeks away from home, somewhere outdoors, feeling lonely, partnered with an attractive man, with whom there were movie kisses - so I fell in love with them quickly.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Loyalty was not an issue for you?
Shirley MacLaine: Who should I be loyal to?
Shirley MacLaine loves her way
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Your then husband Steve Parker, for example.
Shirley MacLaine: When I had my affairs, I was not married yet!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Well, after your marriage in 1954, you stayed true to him ...
Shirley MacLaine: Not too!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Why not?
Shirley MacLaine: I was so young, just 20. Then we never really lived together like a couple. Steve mostly worked in Japan, I made films in Hollywood.
I have been to this world several times.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Is that your idea of a love marriage?
Shirley MacLaine: It could not be arranged differently.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You could have followed your husband to Japan!
Shirley MacLaine: I wanted to shoot movies and not be a housewife at the stove! Steve had complete sympathy for that. We met every few weeks for a few days.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did you really love your husband right?
Shirley MacLaine: In my way certainly. Otherwise I would not have wished for a child from him. Because that meant at least three months break from work. You have to see it this way: Steve and I are very independent people who need their freedom. I think I inherited a lot from my mom in this regard.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did she betray her husband too?
Shirley MacLaine: Can not say for sure. But I know that she met with our neighbor secretly in the garage, where the two smooched. And there was Mum already 83!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: The apple does not fall far from the trunk.
Shirley MacLaine: There you have it! My parents were terribly jealous of each other until old age. With good reason.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: When you think back? in whom have you really fallen head over heels in love?
Shirley MacLaine: Certainly not a man. I was too focused on my career all my life.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Have you ever regretted never feeling that strong feeling of love?
Shirley MacLaine: How should I regret something I do not know?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: But you love your daughter Sachi?
Shirley MacLaine: We have a strong bond.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Binding? or love?
Shirley MacLaine: Sachi grew up with her father. She was seven years old when she moved to Japan with him.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Then you were never a real mother for her?
Shirley MacLaine: Sachi and I meet each other for a few weeks each year and every Christmas.
I enjoy great popularity as a grandmother.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did not you miss your child, did not feel the desire to see it grow?
Shirley MacLaine: Before you give me the stamp of a raven mother, there were certain mafia threats back then? I was afraid that someone would kidnap Sachi. This fear outweighed everything else. My husband and I decided together to send our daughter to Japan, where she was out of danger.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Where does she live today?
Shirley MacLaine: happily married as a housewife and mother of two pretty well-advised adult children in eastern America. In Connecticut.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: How do you feel about being a grandmother?
Shirley MacLaine: Good. With the four children of my brother Warren Beatty, I am very grateful to my grandmother.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: But only for a few hours? then you will be bored!
Shirley MacLaine: Absolutely right! I can not stand the loud chatter and moaning for a long time.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What do your grandchildren call you?
Shirley MacLaine: Granny, so Omi. I myself so wished that of them. You know, I'm absolutely at my age.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You are now 72 years old.
Shirley MacLaine: Gorgeous! Finally, I'm the weird old man I always wanted to play and be. Actually, my age only really becomes aware of me when I do my yoga exercises in the morning and afterwards have trouble returning from the lotus position to the vertical.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What about the erotic?
Shirley MacLaine: The last time someone asked me about it? that was the director Oliver Stone, who wanted to know if I still have sex at my age. I poured a glass of red wine in his face. I'm just saying that for caution.
I like to be with men in hay.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: So there is no new man in your life?
Shirley MacLaine: Since I've always favored at least 15 years younger men, this is a bit difficult today, unfortunately I have to admit.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What's so nice about a younger man?
Shirley MacLaine: They are more passionate, more attentive, more respectful and like to be guided by an experienced woman.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: That means: you want to be the leading role in erotica?
Shirley MacLaine: That's the way it should be.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Has anything changed in your eroticism at your age?
Shirley MacLaine: No. Should that be so? If you want to know it very well: I still enjoy being around the hay with a young man just as much as in the past.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Why in the hay?
Shirley MacLaine: It lends itself to my rural home in New Mexico. I have 13 dogs, four horses and a very romantic stable here. With plenty of hay.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: But where is the man to?
Shirley MacLaine: For the moment, I'm getting rid of my favorite dog Terry, a divine dog, in the truest sense of the word.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: How Divine?
Shirley MacLaine: Terry, like me, has been in the world before. As the Egyptian dog-headed death god Anubis. As a spiritual leader, he accompanied the dead into the underworld and, as Lord of the Hall of God, supervised the ritual preparation of the body through mummification.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: So your dog Terry was a god in his first life? and you yourself?
Shirley MacLaine: Oh, I was an Egyptian princess. In an earlier century, I once lived as a Japanese Geisha, chosen to cure one of my compatriots of impotence. And then I was also an act model for the French painter Toulouse-Lautrec.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You really believe that?
Shirley MacLaine: I'm not joking about this topic! I had so many paranormal experiences, the first time I was only seven years old. I have been to this world several times. Basta!
I tried to contact the UFOs.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: But you have never been kidnapped by aliens?
Shirley MacLaine: No. But I saw several UFOs on a hike through Peru? there were no hallucinations and no weather balloons? and tried to contact them.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: By hand signals and waving?
Shirley MacLaine: Nonsense by focusing on the unknown visitors from another galaxy spiritually.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: With your extraordinary ability to be born again and again, you would not have to be afraid of death.
Shirley MacLaine: I do not either. Since sitting on my father's deathbed and witnessing how he spoke in the last minutes of his life with the people who had told him a lot of nudes and who were long dead, I know that I just glide over to another dimension and then another Return person here.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Why did you move away from the luxurious Malibu on the Pacific?
Shirley MacLaine: For fear of losing my beautiful house, which I saved from my movie awards.I was close to it nine times, nine forest fires came almost to the front door. That was enough for me. So I bought a house here in Santa Fe? a year later it became a victim of the flames. Irony of fate!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What do you do in such a situation: swear or resign?
Shirley MacLaine: I curse like a garbage truck driver. Since my temper goes through with me.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Your house in ruins? Of course you moved to the next best hotel?
Shirley MacLaine: Not at all. I slept outside in the sleeping bag under the huge starry sky.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: No shower and the comfort of a water closet?
Shirley MacLaine: Do not I need anything to survive? Do you know that I walked on foot the 732-kilometer Way of St. James in northern Spain? Only with the essentials in my backpack. I made the whole route in only 31 days!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: And why this?
Shirley MacLaine: To gain spiritual insight. Searching for devotion, for myself. It is said that the underground beneath this path is directly connected to the Milky Way. That's why many feel an incredibly strong energy of the stars.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Do not you sometimes feel like you're a little crazy?
Shirley MacLaine: No. But if you think I have a little roof damage? I should be right.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: When you watch your old movies, what do you feel?
Shirley MacLaine: Nothing. For me, this woman on the screen is an actress with whom I personally have nothing to do.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Not a bit of melancholy when you think of the young, coveted woman of yore that you once were?
Shirley MacLaine: For how stupid do you think I am? Anyone who has a spark of intelligence as a woman should not allow such thoughts to arise because they make life bitter.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: So looking back is painful?
Shirley MacLaine: God, of course, it's a bit of a pinch to look at photos that you're younger. Which is the reason that I stowed the many albums on the loft in a chest. The chest is locked with a security lock, I have thrown away the key, so I'm not even tempted.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: I do not believe you.
Shirley MacLaine: You do not need that either.
TO PERSON Shirley MacLaine was born on April 24, 1934. Her father Ira Beaty was a psychologist, the mother Kathlyn an actress. After a theater career on Broadway Shirley moved in the mid-50s to Hollywood. After the film debut in Hitchcock's "Always Trouble with Harry," she made major achievements in "Damn them all," "The Apartment," "Infam," "The Girl Irma la Douce," "Welcome Mr. Chance," and "Madame Sousatzka." ". Recently she was seen in "In the shoes of my sister" and "Where love falls". Six times she was nominated for the Oscar, for "time of tenderness" she finally got him in 1984. Shirley MacLaine is a great esoteric fan and bestselling author. Her ten books published so far have sold more than 20 million copies. Recently appeared: "An immortal love" (Goldmann), in which she tells of her unusual relationship with her dog Terry.
