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Saw this last night. Liz is a hoot. And it has some great lines!

Gloria Wandrous: Mama, face it: I was the slut of all time
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Gloria Wandrous: You act like a man who's expecting his wife back in town.
Weston Liggett: Look, Gloria, I have to spend at least tonight with her.
Gloria Wandrous: A good night's sleep will be the best thing for you
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Gloria Wandrous: I think I'll get cleaned up and do my nails.
Mrs. Fanny Thurber: Yes, sharpen them.
Gloria Wandrous: For you, Mrs. Thurber, I would.
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And how hot was Laurence Harvey? This is my new favorite guilty pleasure!

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LOL. I read that she hates this movie and still denounces it.

Plus her husband Michael Kidd died that same year and she stole Eddie Fischer from his wife a few months later. When she ended up in the hospital just before the Oscars it was like a perfect storm of PR.

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Read the book. So much better...and you don't have to deal with that Eddie Fisher...thing.

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She didn't really give up acting at a young age. I believe that her last film role was in "The Flintstone's" from 1994. She's done quite a few tv movies since then.

She has made tens of millions of dollars for AIDS Research. That's more satisfying to her, than acting.

If you run into her somewhere Taz, ask her if she's going to get Married again....

Laurence Harvey made so many friends in the movie biz.


Jane Fonda: Acting with [Laurence] Harvey is like acting by yourself - only worse.

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Lee Remick: The tales I can tell of working with him are too horrendous to repeat.

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LARRY KING: And he liked people who knew what they were doing. I remember sitting with him watching a scene from "Manchurian Candidate" with Laurence Harvey and he said: Well, there's an actor; Laurence Harvey, there's an actor.

SHIRLEY MACLAINE: Right, yes.

LARRY KING: So you liked him a lot?

SHIRLEY MACLAINE: Oh, I loved him. Not Laurence. I didn't like him.

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Liz was good but Shirley in "The Apartment" was so much better.

Agreed.

Liz got it for a lot of reasons that had nothing to do with her performance, but I think she blew Shirley out of the water. In fact I think the only reason Shirley even got nominated was b/c she got swept up in the "Apartment" wave.

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