Posted AT 3:30 AM EST on 03/09/08
Tough as nails, but sweet inside
Shirley MacLaine has a well-earned reputation as one tough broad.And in an interview from her home in New Mexico, prior to a visit to Toronto next week to collect a humanitarian award from Best Buddies Canada, the sharp-tongued, bird-like creature more than lived up to her image as a woman who has seen it all, done it all and never - absolutely never - hesitates to speak her mind about things that irk her spiritual sensibilities.
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