In 1979's "Loving Couples" in which Stephen played a charminglyairheaded LA real estate broker, and had screen kisses with ShirleyMcLaine, Susan Sarandon, and Sally Kellerman (but not JamesCoburn).

© 1980 Time-Life ProductionsStephen Collins photo gallery - The In Between

Shirley McLaine

The Film Festivals Server presentsBerlin International Film Festival

Martin LebermanMartin Leberman was born in London in 1960 and his early studies were with Eric

Gilder. He was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College of Music where he studied piano and piano accompaniment with Anthony Lindsay and Simon

Young. Collecting both the GTCL, LTCL diplomas, the Humphrey Searle Prize, Alec Rowley Memorial Award and Elisabeth Schuman Prize, he left to fulfil his first professional engagement as conductor and guest accompanist for Canard's

QE2 world cruise.One year later having worked with Robert White, Sarah Brightman, Gail Nelson,

Elana Duran, Joel Gray, Shirley McLaine, Iris Williams, Vic Damone, Marni Nixon amongst others Martin joined Richard Eyre's London revival of High

Society as Associate Conductor. Other London theatre credits include Chess, The Rink, Kiss Me Kate, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love,

Les Miserables, Great Big Radio Show, Miss Saigon, Mack and Mabel, and most important of all Joseph!

As a composer he has written a musical Tariqs Mountain (musical number two is now in preparation), Music for Dance, Streetsong 1,2,3 and he is a vocal arranger

for theatre and the recital platform.

Martin Leberman on Zah Zah

Who's Who: Jan Derbyshire

Jan has been a headliner with YUK YUKs Comedy Clubs, performing her own material across Canada.. She was also a writer for Shirley McLaine on her Cross Canada Tour in 1994, and, she has been an improvising comedian on CBC Radio's "Out with the Lights", now a regular program, produced by Don Kowalchuk.

PlaysFreaky Find, Quest Theatre, Calgary, 1997. Joke You, Women in View Festival, Vancouver, 1995 Bearded Circus Ladies, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and Women in View Festival, Vancouver, 1996. Under the Top, Quest Theatre, Calgary, 1994. Prod.: Duval Lang.Labour Unions, Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary, 1994. Prod.: Margaret and Bartley Bard Maharani and the Maple Leaf, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, 1993. Prod.: Donna Spencer.How to Rate A Bull's Libido, Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary, 1993. Prod.: Margaret and Bartley Bard. The Comedy of Oedipus or You'll Put Your Eye Out, with Dean Haglund and Stephen Fowler for the 1990 Vancouver Fringe Festival.

AgentRonda Cooper, Toronto

BILL ROGERSConductor, composer, pianist, arranger. Graduated from

Thomas Jefferson High School, Port Arthur and Lamar University. Has written arrangements and conducted for Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Shirley McLaine, Frank Sinatra Jr., Tony

Bennett, Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson, Barbara Streisand, and Bob Hope. Wrote a symphonic arrangement of his high school song

"The Old Maroon and Gold" for a class reunion.

PRESS REVIEWJournalists who watch three films every day during the festival, will sit for a total of 60 hours in the dark… more than the amount of sleep many people will be getting in the

next two weeks. Their mole-like existence started with the screening of Sense and Sensibility. Harald

Martenstein of Der Tagesspiegel reported: ' 'Mama has been crying since breakfast' - lines like these, like a lot of things in life, stands half-way between comedy and tragedy. Difficult to keep the balance. Emma

Thompson succeeds pretty often.' In Berliner Zeitung, Peter Zander remarks about William Wyler: 'Bette Davis would have jumped into the Hudson for him, and Shirley McLaine would even have shot the phone book with him. The Berlinale presents the biggest retrospective ever shown of

Wyler.' Die Welt writes about Elia Kazan's presence of mind. 'Alluding to the German title of

On the Waterfront - Die Faust im Nacken (literally 'fist in the neck') - one of the journalists placed his fist against Kazan's neck. Kazan didn't shiver at all. He turned

around, smiled and just grumbled a deep 'Marlon, eh?' to the gaping crowd.' Beate Hanspach writes in her article in Neues Deutschland concerning the Children´s Film Festival: 'The extensive programme proves how indefatigably other countries,

above all Scandinavia, but also China and Iran, support the committed children´s film.'

Mareike Meyer

PETER FREEMAN Peter Freeman received his formal music training at McGill University where, as a

student of Gerald Danovitch, he received an L. Mus. (High Distinction in Saxophone) in the spring of 1974 and a B. Mus. (School of Music) later that same year. While an

undergraduate, Mr. Freeman was the first student saxophonist to win the prestigious Concerto Competition. In 1984 he earned an M. Mus. Degree (Performance Saxophone), also from McGill University. Mr. Freeman also undertook extensive clarinet studies with

Raffaele Masella at the Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec, and held the position of Associate Clarinet with the Canada Symphony Orchestra from 1972 - 1973. Since then he has regularly freelanced with l'Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and the National Arts

Centre Orchestra, in addition to performing the soprano saxophone solo on the OSM's recording of Maurice Ravel's Bolero. Mr. Freeman has been very active in the Montreal

classical and commercial music fields for over twenty years, playing in orchestras backing such renowned entertainment figures as Johnny Mathis, Shirley McLaine,

Liberace, Tony Orlando, Jack Jones and Englebert Humperdink. He also spent sixteen years as alto saxophonist with the much-recorded and acclaimed Gerald Danovitch

Saxophone Quartet. Mr. Freeman was Director of the McGill Conservatory of Music from 1987 to 1991 and currently teaches at Queen's School of Music and McGill's

Faculty of Music.

Snub City

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This is our Wall of Shame where all cases of celebrity snubbing is recorded for all the world to see! While no autograph is a given and the celebrity

doesn't owe you an autograph, if you behave with courtesy, so should they.

FROM: Kimberly Matthieu

Last year I saw Shirley McLaine in Houston for the premire of "The Evening Star". There were some guys standing in front of me wanting an

autograph, so I got behind them wanting one too. When she turned around and saw that they wanted her to sign a picture, she turned the other way and

ignored them. No one got autographs.

A fan sent Burt Blyleven, former

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says

while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine

Spouse (1954 - ?) (divorced)

Trade mark Her trademark theme song, taken from the movie, Sweet Charity, is "If My Friends Could See

Me Now". It is usually the music that accompanies her when she makes entrances on talk shows.

Trivia Named after Shirley Temple

Led a series of weekend-long "Higher Self Seminars" in the late '80s teaching people about her views on many aspects of New Age practices and techniques.

Attended Washington-Lee H.S. in Arlington, VA Sister of Warren Beatty Mother of Sachi Parker

A frequent visitor to Houston, Texas, where she starred in Terms of Endearment (1983) and Evening Star, The (1996), at each visit she goes to Tony's restaurant where she orders a

complete souffle, just for herself. Left handed

Personal quotes "Shirley - I love her, but her oars aren't touching the water these days." - Dean Martin

Star bio: Shirley MacLaine Combining a tomboy's brashness with a pixie's charm and a waif's vulnerability, MacLaine made her film

debut in Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy, "The Trouble With Harry" (1955). She established herself in the late 1950s and early 60s with films such as "Some Came Running" (1959), "The Apartment" (1960) and "Irma La Douce" (1963). High-spirited as well as versatile, often sporting reddish bangs which dusted her

eyebrows, she was associated for a time with the famous Hollywood "Rat Pack" of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and their cronies. MacLaine displayed a more serious side of her character in

the late 1960s, when she began an active involvement in liberal politics. Apart from her zestful turn in Bob Fosse's musical, "Sweet Charity" (1968), in which she was well-cast as a somewhat ditzy but

boundlessly optimistic dance hall hostess aiming to make something of her life, MacLaine made fewer important films as the decade progressed. She did, however, begin working extensively in TV and on stage

and published the first of several autobiographical works, "Don't Fall Off the Mountain", in 1970. After keeping busy in a series of well-received TV specials in the 1970s, in which she celebrated her days

as a gypsy chorine, and a notable dramatic feature in "The Turning Point" (1977), in which she locked horns with Anne Bancroft, MacLaine received renewed attention as a film actress in the 1980s. She earned

an Oscar for her role as Aurora Greenway, an overprotective mother with a prickly relationship with her daughter (Debra Winger) in James L Brooks's 1983 tearjerker, "Terms of Endearment" (1983). Her

continuing autobiographical installments (e.g. 1983's "Out on a Limb") have provoked some amusement for their theories of "out-of-body" experiences and reincarnation but her continuing career was no laughing

matter. MacLaine went on to flamboyantly play John Schlesinger's "Madame Sousatzka" (1988), joined the stellar ensemble of actresses in Herbert Ross' "Steel Magnolias" (1989), and provided a role model for

Meryl Streep in Mike Nichols' "Postcards From the Edge" (1990). She was also reasonably convincing as the formidable Jewish mom of Kathy Bates in "Used People" (1992) and had been a showbiz institution for long enough to be good casting as a feisty First Lady whose energy taxes her bodyguard in "Guarding Tess" (1994). MacLaine continued to play slightly cantankerous women in "Mrs. Winterbourne", and reprising

her award-winning role of Aurora Greenway in Robert Harling's "Evening Star" (both 1996). "There's a definite arc to my career," the then 58-year old MacLaine declared with pride. "I mean I used to go get married in films. Now I die in films." MacLaine is the sister of Warren Beatty and is divorced from

producer Steve Parker. Her daughter Sachi Parker is an actress.