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About the book
At a certain time in life, we all come to realise what is truly important to us and what just doesn’t matter. For Shirley MacLaine, that time is now. In this wise, witty and fearless collection of small observations and big-pictured questions she spells out exactly what she’s “over” in life and some of the things she isn’t.
An Oscar, three-time Emmy, and ten time Golden Globe-winning actress, Shirley has appeared in more than fifty films including Valentine’s Day, Rumor Has It, In Her Shoes, Steel Magnolias, Guarding Tess, and Postcards from the Edge, and received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984 Terms of Endearment).
In her overture to I’M OVER ALL THAT Shirley writes that all of life, even the cruelest drama and most absurd comedy, is a form of show business, a kind of performance, and she’s been lucky enough to have created the moving picture show of her own life.
“In this third act of my life,” Shirley says, “a lot has become clearer to me. So much is over…and I am over so much.”
She’s learned to ease up on worry, scheming for films or roles, planning for better surroundings, and feeling anger at leaders who operate politically rather than humanely. Yes, she says, she’s over all that. She’s also over listening to advertisements, the latest fashions (not that she was ever much into that), events she should attend in order to be seen, and red carpet madness.
After seventy-six ‘adventure-peppered’ years of life and decades as Hollywood royalty, nobody is more qualified than Shirley MacLaine to call it as she sees it.
Some of her passionate and no-holds-barred topics include:
I’m Over Being Concerned About What I Shouldn’t Do
I Will Never Get Over Africa
I’m Not Over Good Lighting
I’m Over Fear Being Taught In the Name of Religion
I Am Over Being Polite to Boring People
Aging in Hollywood?!? Get Over it!
I’m Trying to Get Over Anger
Sex Got Over Me
I Can’t Remember If I’m Over Memory Loss
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