Miss Eunice Revisited

Here’s a secret about older Southern women. We don’t much give a flying flip. And that is pure joy, by the way. If you somehow think that the character of Ouiser Boudreaux in Steel Magnolias was a concoction, an outsized fantasy created for mild shock value, or yet another misguided caricature of the Southern persona, think again. Shirley MacLaine’s …