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A legend walks among us. Shirley MacLaine, 90, made a rare public appearance in Malibu, California on Sunday. The Hollywood icon had lunch at Kristy’s restaurant, which she also visited on the Fourth of July. MacLaine wore a blue shirt with a zip-up jacket, black pants and red shoes. She also sported bright white hair and glasses and carried a small black purse.

Her bizarre New Age views on topics such as reincarnation and UFOs have often left the public baffled. Now Shirley MacLaine has provoked widespread fury by claiming the victims of the Holocaust may have brought their fate upon themselves. The veteran Hollywood actress suggests the six million Jews and millions of others systematically murdered in Hitler’s death camps in the 1940s were ‘balancing their karma’ for crimes committed in past lives. She also suggests that cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking may have subconsciously given himself his debilitating motor neurone disease.

Just when we are so very tired of the cold and the early darkness and the bleakness of winter, there is hope just around the corner. Beginning in March, there’ll be a series of talks at the Rosemont Theatre presented by Unique Lives & Experiences. According to its web site, Unique Lives & Experiences is the country’s foremost women’s lecture series. It "was developed in response to women’s requests for intellectual entertainment and provides them with a forum for meaningful dialogue and stimulating interaction." Meaningful dialogue. Stimulating interaction. Think there are enough red flags here? Obviously not for the sponsors...