Shirley MacLaine Talks About Young Stars' Debauched Lifestyle

Academy-award winning actress Shirley MacLaine has a lot to say about today's young star's decadent lifestyle. She thinks their dope and booze-filled ways have spun out of control.

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The 73-year-old Terms of Endearment star says there's an addiction to fame now that wasn't present when she began her career in the 50's.

"Once People magazine was published, I knew it would become a tabloid nation.

"I knew that our nation of America and also Europe would be inundated by the invasion of privacy of celebrities. Why is that? I think it makes money because when we see celebrities in trouble and we are having a poverty-stricken life of some kind, we think, 'Oh we, that's fine. They're in trouble, they have made a lot of money. They are rich and famous etc. We don't feel so bad. Maybe we are happier than they are.' On the other hadn, the paparazzi make so much money invading the privacy of these youngsters that I think they have induced a kind of latent addiction to fame."

MacLaine has been quoted to say that she thinks Lindsay Lohan is a fame addict that may have stemmed from poor parenting skills and no boundaries.

"Some of the most prominent girls call and say: 'I am going to be in Starbucks. Meet me there and I am going to act like I don't want you there.' They don't realize how serious the addiction to fame is. That's a big deal. That didn't happen when I was young."

The Hollywood great is promoting her latest performance in David Attenborough's "Closing The Ring." This is MacLaine's second collaboration with Attenborough as they had acted together in the 1968 film "The Bliss Of Mrs. Blossom."