Show Business: Shirley MacLaine on the Move

The face is 42 now, and wrinkles cut lightly through the freckles. The legs are tantalizingly fit, but the right heel is blistered, bandaged and slippered, the result of a walk down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. "One of the things that is so difficult for me in this business is that I have to be so careful how I get out of a cab, how I walk across the street, how I might turn an ankle," reflects Shirley MacLaine. "I've gotta be careful about everything." Maybe so, but 22 years after her first movie and 23 years after going from Broadway understudy...

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