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" ***** Who is the Sexiest Woman Alive?A mystery in four parts. Clue #1: &amp;quot;She drinks gin. You are reading the second clue. Clue #3: Shirley MacLaine. The Mystery Revealed. ***** One month closer to full disclosure and another informant emerges to drop a few hints on her identity. This time, it&amp;#039;s an Oscar-winning director who recently collaborated with our SWA on an intense little drama -- an experience that may explain the moment of well-earned repose caught at right. What was XXXXXXXX like to work with? She has a very interesting process. She likes to screw around right up until you say &amp;quot;Action.&amp;quot; I would go to her trailer with thoughts on an upcoming scene, and she&amp;#039;d be playing the Deal or No Deal video game. And suddenly I&amp;#039;m glued to the screen, screaming, &amp;quot;Take the money!&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s screaming &amp;quot;No!&amp;quot; So that&amp;#039;s the kind of serious actress you&amp;#039;re dealing with. Did you shut production down for the rest of the day? I wish I could have. But when it&amp;#039;s time to work, something suddenly turns on behind her eyes, and she&amp;#039;s instantly in the character. I actually started looking for ways to break her up. I started directing her in a bad Italian accent. And it still didn&amp;#039;t work. She just stares at you like the fool you are, and then she&amp;#039;s brilliant.  Did she get along well with her costars? Oh, very well. I&amp;#039;d walk into a room and XXXXXXXX and she would be mimicking each other in odd accents, and I&amp;#039;d think, &amp;quot;Hmm, something&amp;#039;s going on here I don&amp;#039;t quite understand. I&amp;#039;m just going to leave.&amp;quot; I felt like the left-out child. The thing about being the director is, everything fun happens someplace else.  How did you decide to cast her? I&amp;#039;d been talking to her off and on for months. We got to know each other when I was doing XXXXXXXX. I&amp;#039;d bump into her around town; she&amp;#039;s hard to miss because she&amp;#039;s wearing her five-inch-high Jimmy Choos and towering over everybody. I told her I was developing something and that I wanted to send it to her when it was done. A lot of people say those things, so every time I&amp;#039;d bump into her at a dinner over the next two years, I&amp;#039;d remind her, and she finally said, &amp;quot;Yeah, yeah, yeah...just get the damn thing done and send it to me.&amp;quot;  Obviously your script called for a beautiful woman. I know some folks at the studio were concerned when I first talked about casting her, because she&amp;#039;s so beautiful and her character isn&amp;#039;t glamorous, but she came to set -- she&amp;#039;d let her hair go back to natural color that year, pulled it back, put on clothes from Target, and disappeared into the landscape. Oliver Stone screened the film with me, and he was sitting there for fifteen minutes before he said, &amp;quot;Oh, shit, that&amp;#039;s XXXXXXXX!&amp;quot; A Few Other Things You Probably Didn&amp;#039;t Know About the Sexiest Woman Alive \u2022 Shares coveted real estate with Britney Spears. \u2022 Shares a birthday with a major league shortstop. \u2022 Is zero degrees from Kevin Bacon. \u2022 Shares a connection with a skyscraper and a battleship.  \u2022 Has worked with primates, arthropods, and Mark Wahlberg.  ***** Who is the Sexiest Woman Alive?A mystery in four parts. Clue #1: &amp;quot;She drinks gin. You are reading the second clue. Clue #3: Shirley MacLaine. The Mystery Revealed. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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