Shirley MacLaine, Turning 90, Feels Good, The Secret to Her Longevity, New Book

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- Shirley MacLaine Is 'Feeling Good' as She Turns 90, Teases New Book About Her 'Wonderful Life,' People, April 24, 2024. Ed.

Shirley MacLaine is marking her 90th birthday by announcing the release of a surprising new book. The Oscar-winning actress will share photos and stories from her life, with over 150 images from her personal archives, in her new book The Wall of Life, out October 22. "I have lived a wonderful life and I wanted to share it," MacLaine tells PEOPLE. "All of the photos brought back such wonderful memories.”

The legendary star plans to celebrate her milestone birthday on April 24 with an intimate dinner with friends. "We're getting together and I hope to eat something good,” she says. MacLaine, who won an Oscar for 1983's Terms of Endearment and has starred in classic films such as The Apartment, Postcards from the Edge and Steel Magnolias, is still doing what she loves and will soon begin filming a new movie in Atlantic City titled People Not Places.

"It's a wonderful script and we are getting ready to start and will see what happens," she says of the film. (Shirley MacLaine Says She Has a 'Perfect Life' at 85: 'I Eat What I Want, I Sleep When I Want')

MacLaine attributes her longevity to her years of dancing. "I started my dance training at age three and stopped at about 67. It taught me discipline, loving music, working with people and dealing with pain," she says. She says the idea to put together a book came about because of a wall of photos she had up in her Malibu home. “About 45 years ago, I put ten or so framed photographs of friends and family and people I’ve worked with all grouped together on a living room wall," says MacLaine...
https://people.com/shirley-maclaine-feeling-good-at-90-announces-new-book-exclusive-8636587
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- Shirley MacLaine Says She Has a 'Perfect Life' at 85: 'I Eat What I Want, I Sleep When I Want'
"Not that much bothers me," says Terms of Endearment Oscar winner, People, 2019,
https://people.com/movies/shirley-maclaine-has-perfect-life-at-85-i-eat-what-i-want-i-sleep-when-i-want/

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1. 🎈Happy Birthday Shirley MacLaine, 20 Best Film Roles Ranked, The Guardian, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/18/happy-90th-birthday-shirley-maclaine-her-20-best-films-ranked

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2. One of the people I adore the most.

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Happy birthday lovely smart witty woman.

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3. MacLaine's great, her outook on life and fitness thru dancing have

definitely played a role in her health I think.

Years ago I read that dancing uses every part of the body and is one of the best forms of exercise that works the brain, muscles, heart, lungs and more.

Look at actor and dancer Dick van Dyke who's age 99, and quit decades of drinking and heavy smoking.
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- Richard Wayne Van Dyke (b. Dec. 13, 1925) is an American actor and comedian. His career has spanned over 7 decades in film, television, and stage. Van Dyke is the recipient of a Golden Globe, Tony, Grammy, a Daytime Emmy, and four Primetime Emmys. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012. He was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021, & was recognized as a Disney Legend..
- HEALTH, Dick Van Dyke - Van Dyke is sober after struggling with alcoholism for years, and he checked in to a hospital for three weeks in 1972 to be treated for his addiction. Van Dyke was a heavy smoker for most of his adult life. In a Jan. 2013 interview with the London The Daily Telegraph, he said he had been using Nicorette gum for the past decade.
In April 2013, Van Dyke revealed that for 7 years he had been experiencing symptoms of a neurological disorder, in which he felt a pounding in his head whenever he lay down, but despite his undergoing tests, no diagnosis had been made. He had to cancel scheduled appearances owing to fatigue from lack of sleep because of the medical condition. In May 2013, he tweeted that it seemed his titanium dental implants may be responsible...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke

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4. It's the exercise. Keep moving, people.

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5. I live in Santa Fe, NM, where Ms. MacLaine lives part time.

I have met several people who've interacted with her, and not a single one has anything nice to say about her.

I think that says a lot.