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Tribute to Shirley MacLaine: Barbra Streisand

Shirley MacLaine
By Barbra Streisand
March 3, 2017
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Shirley MacLaine will receive the 2017 KCET Cinema Series Lumière Award, honoring MacLaine’s illustrious career. KCET will also broadcast "Hollywood Idols Shirley MacLaine: Kicking Up Her Heels" that features acclaimed directors and actors discussing their experiences working with MacLaine on Saturday, March 4 at 7 p.m.

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Barbra Streisand

Trying to sum up what made Shirley Maclaine “Shirley Maclaine” is difficult.  

She has been a star in all of our lives for so long that we've reached a consensus on why she stood so brightly apart from many others. All that talent. She could act up a storm, dance up a storm, be beautiful and exciting in a way that was unexpected.

She could make us laugh and make us cry and, occasionally, do both at the same time.  

That's rare -- that's Shirley!  Or, as I call her, Shoiley.  

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