Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix: "Shirley MacLaine on how she co-wrote a novel with her dog: 'It's probably because I sleep with her, and the intimacy of that is so deep and profound. I know she enters my dreams. And when Terry feels and I pick up the feeling, the feeling then becomes a creative concept. It began when the creative impulse woke me up. I was just lying with her, and I went right to the tape recorder.' "

Jeanetta: oh man