The office intern, who has been in hour office for more than three years and is now a graduate student, talks in a baby voice. Yes, a baby voice. It’s annoying as hell, but because her mother is an administrator, she’s untouchable and we have to put up with her. Did I mention the baby voice?
So when I saw that “The Turning Point” featured a not so young Shirley MacLaine I decided I had to see it because I was curious about how she would sound. She had a very old woman voice in “Steel Magnolias” and a baby whisper in “The Apartment” and “The Trouble With Harry.”
Turns out she sounded normal—not to high and not too low. (A relief because I don’t want to sound like an old lady for a long time.)
I was also surprised that despite it running a little more than two hours, it was a very good movie. Shirley and hot movie husband, Tom Skerritt, run a ballet school in Oklahoma City, Okla. They are former ballet dancers who decided to get married and start a family instead of continuing with the company. Shirley’s main competition is played by Anne Bancroft who looks absolutely gorgeous in this film.
Shirley wonders what would have happened if she had stayed at the company and Anne seems to regret not having a family to work on her career.
The movie also features a young Mikhail Baryshnikov—a small but muscular Baryshnikov.
Shirley gets an opportunity to live her dream through her oldest daughter because her daughter gets invited to join the dance company. They move to New York—for the summer—and the younger dancers take over from the older dancers. The dancing is wonderful, but my favorite scene is where Anne and Shirley finally hash it out and get into a fight. It’s not your typical chick fight because they end up tangled up and spanking each other. Hilarious. Of course, they make up and all is well.
I haven’t seen any other ballet movies, but this was just the right dose of drama and dancing.
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