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Shirley MacLaine’s bizarre Broadway critique

Shirley MacLaine had one quibble with Tony-winning “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — the show has no aliens. Spies said after the “Downton Abbey” star, who claims to have seen UFOs from her New Mexico porch, saw the family drama, “she rushed backstage” to tell the cast she loved the show but “had one complaint,” a spy said. “She inexplicably told them she ‘really thought [playwright] Christopher Durang was going to delve into the existence of UFOs’ ” in one of David Hyde Pierce’s speeches. “She said, ‘Nobody’s talking about the facts. People know the truth but it’s being kept under wraps. They can’t keep it secret forever.’ ” Our spy chuckled, “Just your typical backstage close encounter.”