"....MacLaine said. "People were basically afraid of Frank. They weren't afraid of Dean."

Hey pallies, likes the Dino-amorin' just keeps flowin' here at ilovedinomartin. Today's Dino-devotion comes from an interview with Miss Shirley MacLaine by Mr. Glenn Miller of the Fort Myers' News-Press. Miss MacLaine was scheduled to do "An Evening With Shirley MacLaine" at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts and she reflects back on her life and times includin' her association with the Rat Pack.

Below is the pertinent portion of said interview where Miss Shirley speaks her Dino-love and the difference between the frankie and our beloved Dino......

"They would get me up on stage and then everybody would get drunk," MacLaine said. "It was an amazing thing to watch. Frank would tell a joke and nobody would laugh and Dean would tell a joke and everybody laughed."

She has an explanation.

"Dean would say to Frank 'because you're just not funny,'" MacLaine said. "People were basically afraid of Frank. They weren't afraid of Dean."

Likes MacLaine shares in a nutshell why we can call Dino "our Dino"....even "our beloved Dino" 'cause likes pallies we knows that we aren't and never have to be "afraid of Dean." We knows that not only do we loves our Dino...but our Dino loves us as well!

ilovedinomartin sez our thanks to Mr. Glenn Miller and the pallies at the News-Press for sharin' this interview with the larger Dino-world...and thanks Miss Shirley MacLaine for sharin' your continued Dino-devotion with us as well! If you woulda likes to read all that Miss Shirley has to say, please clicks on the tagg of this Dino-message. And likes on this 15th day of Dino-amore-month, keeps lovin' our Dino!
Dino-loved, DMP



Shirley MacLaine coming here to talk about life

Written by
GLENN MILLER

Ask her about her favorite co-stars and she'll respond with names from the past and today.

"It's a toss-up between Frank, Dean, the three Jacks," MacLaine said.

That would be Sinatra, Martin and the three Jacks - Lemmon, Nicholson and Black. MacLaine and Black are in "Bernie," which is scheduled for release this year.

"He's adorable and so nice," MacLaine said.

She respects the finest actors and directors working in 2011 as well as the legends she worked with when she was young.

She thinks Chris Nolan, the director of "Inception," should have been nominated for an Oscar even though she said "I'm not sure what ("Inception") was about."

MacLaine, who got her start as a ballet dancer, loved "Black Swan," a ballet movie directed by Darren Aronofsky.

"I loved what Aronofsky did with the dark realities of ballerinas," MacLaine said.

She said Jacki Weaver, nominated for best actress in a supporting role in "Animal Kingdom," gave a "cobra of a performance."

MacLaine praised several other nominees.

But she'll always have a warm spot for the Rat Pack.

"They would get me up on stage and then everybody would get drunk," MacLaine said. "It was an amazing thing to watch. Frank would tell a joke and nobody would laugh and Dean would tell a joke and everybody laughed."

She has an explanation.

"Dean would say to Frank 'because you're just not funny,'" MacLaine said. "People were basically afraid of Frank. They weren't afraid of Dean."