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Was Shirley MacLaine high when she agreed to do this?


This is okay as a comedy, if you're a Hal Needham fan and like Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise, but Shirley MacLaine was just coming off "Terms of Endearment."

Unless she was in dire need of money or needed something light to balance out the heavy she had just finished playing, I have no idea why someone of her caliber would have reduced themselves to this.

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No, that would've been when she agreed to do Bewitched.

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I'd go with that she needed something light to balance out the heavy. In modern terms, like Natalie Portman doing Your Highness after Black Swan.

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It was in homage to her role in two mules for sister sara.

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Shirley MacLaine was the only female member of the Rat Pack back in their glory days. I guess when she found out that Frank, Dino, and Sammy were going to be in this film she wanted in too.

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