Shirley MacLaine explains lighting in her new book and warns against murdering… – Los Angeles Times

Shirley MacLaine
The bestselling author, Oscar winner and New Age spiritualist has a new book of wisdom to share with the universe as well as people who aspire to shine on the big and little screen.

“First of all, you need to know where to sit,” MacLaine writes in her latest book “I’m All Over That.”

“If it’s daytime, you sit facing the outside light. Natural light is very nice for the skin — as long as it’s not direct sunlight. If you’re really smart, you place your partner just to the side of where the light is hitting you. You’ll know you are in the right daytime lighting position when you can’t see his face. He is completely backlit. You won’t know how he is reacting to your daytime dialogue, but you do know you look as good as possible when the sun is out,” the 10-time Golden Globes winner writes.

MacLaine, who happens to be Warren Beaty‘s older sister, also has advice for celebrities and others who are accosted by the likes of news crews and paparazzi.

“If you are a person who is stopped on the street for a ‘reality’ interview, ask them what filter they have in the camera. Black full pro mist is the best, but everything else will look slightly blurred, which is what you want for your face. Otherwise, just keep walking,” MacLaine advises.

“I have no solution for the paparazzi who jump out at you in highly inappropriate environments,” MacLaine, who has sold more than 20 million books, admits. “Except perhaps murder. But then, even paparazzi can be reincarnated.”

Bad lighting isn’t the only thing MacLaine warns others to avoid. While on set during her first movie role, “The Trouble With Harry”, director Alfred Hitchcock got her in the bad habit of eating fatty foods. A behavior even the film studio had to alert her about.

“I never realized that my weight was visibly changing on film — maybe ten pounds from one scene to another when the film was assembled,” MacLaine, who ended up appearing in over 50 other films wrote. “The president of Paramount called me and asked me what I thought I was doing. I said, ‘Eating what I couldn’t afford before.’ He said, ‘Now you’ve got some money, you’re not going to starve. Quit or we’ll have to shoot retakes.’ That hadn’t occurred to me. Hitch obviously had a food problem.

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Shirley MacLaine explains lighting in her new book and warns against murdering… – Los Angeles Times
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