Coco

This week, Lauren alerted me to the fact that Shirley MacLaine was going to be playing fashionista Coco Chanel. I adore Shirley MacLaine, I can't wait until the miniseries airs (on Lifetime)... Here is my favorite piece of the interview she gave, and one of the reasons I love MacLaine:

"She (Audrey Hepburn) told me I should play Coco Chanel. I said: 'Well, Coco Chanel was a little scrunched over and very short.'

"And she said, 'But the spirit of the woman is what matches your spirit.'

"Now I found Coco to be everything between generous and rude, so I don't know what Audrey meant. But she was obviously right."

But wasn't Coco Chanel a lesbian?

"Well, just because you play the whole field, doesn't mean you are a lesbian." MacLaine replied.