Hollywood icon Shirley MacLaine is looking for a new personal assistant who can fulfill a very specific requirement: enjoy a “cocktail” with her every night.
The 90-year-old actress, who recently published a photographic memoir, appears to be in a particularly reflective mood lately, with inside sources telling DailyMail.com that whoever gets the job would need to be able to “discuss her films and career.” . while they drink their drinks.
With a celebrated career that has seen her shine both on screen and on Broadway, Shirley certainly has a wealth of stories to share with a future staff member.
“Shirley recently asked her friends if they could recommend a personal assistant,” the source exclusively revealed. ‘He gave his friends a short list of requirements for the job.
‘The main qualifications she has demanded are that applicants must be available to have a cocktail with her at 5pm and then be able to talk about their films and career. Night after night.’
Naturally, her friends asked the Steel Magnolias actress if there were any other qualities she’d love her future assistant to have.
Hollywood icon Shirley MacLaine is looking for a new personal assistant who can “have a cocktail” with her every night.
Whoever gets the job should be able to “discuss their movies and career” while enjoying their drinks.
The source added: “When someone in her circle asked if there was anything else involved, the Oscar winner shrugged and said she thought that would be enough.”
In addition to spending quality time enjoying a drink with the acting legend, the actress has promised to be “very generous” when it comes to paying, which will be negotiable.
Shirley won’t be the first star to pay a tidy sum to compensate an assistant with an unusual lawsuit.
Rap legend Snoop Dogg made headlines when it was revealed that he has a full-time blunt joint that he pays $50,000 a year.
Pop diva Mariah Carey reportedly demanded a “ladder assistant” when she appeared on British comedian Alan Carr’s The Friday Night Project.
Lady Gaga allegedly demanded that her former friend and assistant Jennifer O’Neill be available 24/7, and even sleep in the same bed.
Robert De Niro’s requests for his former personal assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, were not well received, and the actor was forced to pay her after it was revealed in court that he treated her like an “office wife”, asking her to perform minor tasks, including washing his sheets. and scratching his back.
Earlier this year, Shirley made headlines for the extremely candid revelations she shared in her photographic memoir, The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.
A source told DailyMail.com: “When someone in his circle asked if there was anything else involved… he thought that would be enough.”
A source explained: ‘Applicants must be available to have a cocktail with her at 5pm and then be able to talk about their films and career. Night after night’
She told all about her love life, which has seen her linked to famous names, from Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky.
Many of her affairs overlapped with her open marriage to businessman Steve Parker, who was her husband from 1952 until their divorce in 1984.
Earlier this year, Shirley, 90, made headlines for extremely candid revelations in her photographic memoir, The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.
However, the Terms of Endearment actress also noted that not all the stars she liked reciprocated her feelings.
Under a photo of her with Morgan Freeman, she wrote: “I propositioned him and he turned me down.”
Morgan made his Hollywood breakthrough in 1989 with a series of films, including the drama Driving Miss Daisy, for which he won an Oscar for best actor.
At that stage, he was already with his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee, to whom he was married from 1984 until their divorce in 2010.
By 1989, Shirley had been a star for decades, first finding fame on Broadway and then launching her film career in 1955 with her film debut The Trouble With Harry, a black comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Although Morgan and Shirley have been Hollywood staples for more than 35 years, and he is only three years younger than her, they have never starred in a movie together.
Elsewhere in the book, Shirley wrote that she slept with all of her protagonists, except Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson.
She also gushed about Nicolas Cage, her co-star in the 1994 film Guarding Tess, but noted that they never had a sexual connection.