Mrs. Partridge in Sex Romp in New Movie
Undated promotional photo provided by Twentieth Century
Fox shows actors, from left, Shirley Knight, Doris Roberts and Shirley Jones,
after inadvertently drinking tea laced with marijuana, in a scene from the
film 'Grandma's Boy.' (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Michaels)
LOS ANGELES - What's this — the matriarch of the Partridge family in bed with a 24-year-old stud? It happens in "Grandma's Boy," a boisterous comedy
produced by Adam Sandler's company.
"It's a different role for me," laughs Jones, the star of "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," "Music Man" and other squeaky-clean movies.
"People ask me, `Why would you want to do a role like this?' I say, `Look, I've been Mrs. Partridge for many years. Let's face it: I won an Academy Award for playing a prostitute in `Elmer Gantry.' This is the kind of role that at my age (71) it's fun to play."
The fun starts, she related, when three housemates — played by herself, Shirley Knight and Doris Roberts — find a jar left in the kitchen by a previous tenant. The contents look like tea, so they heat up a brew. What they're actually sipping is hashish. That's when things get wild with a group of fun-loving young men.
A possible antidote to "Grandma's Boy," which opens Jan. 6, could be "Hidden Places," which airs on the Hallmark Channel on Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. Being a Hallmark production, it's gotta have heart and nothing to upset the family.
So appropriately enough, Jones plays an old lady with glasses, long gray wig and men's clothes who has been banished to a back bedroom by her Depression-era farm family. When the father dies, his daughter and two children face losing the farm. Aunt Betty, called Aunt Batty by her relatives, comes to the rescue.
From horny grandma to goofy aunt in the same month — just another chapter in an amazing, unending career that has seen every form of show business except the circus.
But who knows — that could be next.
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Shirley Jones gives no sign of quitting. She is booked for four concerts in early 2006, some with symphony orchestras, some with piano accompaniment and clips of her movies. She has regular sessions with a voice coach and pedals several miles daily on her stationary bicycle.
"I lost 14 pounds doing `42nd Street,'" she commented, "and I swore I would keep them off. And I have."
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