Playboy Interview: Shirley Mac Laine

September, 1984

If it's true, as is suggested, that your entire life flashes before you when you die, when Shirley MacLaine's time comes, she'll have to sit through a triple feature.And that's only for this lifetime: She will readily admit there have been others.However, her present incarnations as a successful actress, dancer, writer, world traveler, political activist, advocate of world peace and spiritual believer have managed to keep her pretty well occupied for 50 years. Besides, MacLaine relishes the rush...

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