Cybill Shepherd

Life is certainly not all she has a lust for. Men just drop at her feet and beg her to screw them. At least that’s what she says. It just occurs to me that she reminds me a lot of Moll Flanders. Moll never was coy about sex and never did it without at least a cursory interest/attraction to the man involved. It was never about something else and it isn’t like that with Cybill. She does it because she likes to. It’s an incidental. If it leads to something else that she wants, good, if show more not that’s fine too.

I couldn’t help two things when reading this. That I would like to hear the other side of the stories and that she names names when convenient but not at times where it would have been OK. Like with the ‘musician’ at the end. If he was so public about his relationship with her in a national tabloid, why couldn’t she mention his name? Lawyers? And some of the nameless executives (suits she calls them) – I’ll bet they just all had fits when she was putting this together. I can imagine the flurry of phone calls and the panic lunches!

She seemed to gloss over a lot though. The years between The Last Picture Show and Moonlighting seemed pretty sparse. She sang but never took it seriously. She did B movies and never took them seriously. She screwed and never to that seriously either. In a way, I can see why she is such a hit-or-miss performer. She thinks that she has talent and once in a while shows some of it, but she seems to lack the conviction to stick to her guns about anything. She seems to (despite never having one for long) to take the opinions and direction of men seriously instead. Men got it into their heads to use her for some project or other and then she was brought in. She never seems to get what she wants because she wants it. She gets what she wants sometimes because it so happens to fit into someone else’s plans.

I wonder if her sex life ever became an inside joke to the men around her. Did they ever get together and compare notes? Did they have a secret code word about her? A club? She was brave to admit to the two men at once thing. I suppose her kids are past being embarrassed. show less

As celebrity autobios go, I think this one is pretty excellent. I didn't know much about Cybill Shepherd before reading it, but I liked the pun in the title. I'm now quite anxious to check out "Moonlighting," the TV show she did with an all-but-unheard-of Bruce Willis, and a few of her movies. The book itself was thoughtful and amusing, managing to drop plenty of names without seeming to do so gratuitously.

Also, I had no idea she was rather an outspoken feminist activist, and I found myself show more unexpectedly moved to admiration a few times by the choices she made (though other parts of the book, like her matter-of-fact promiscuity, were interesting without being at all appealing). show less

When I saw this book in my Little Free Library I didn't realize she had a memoir that came out in 2000. I know her career has advanced since then and wanted to know more than the usual that I already know, i.e., her movies, Moonlighting, and some things about her private life. She had a show Cybill. I guess I never watched it since I don't remember it.

The book starts out with the prologue in 1999 with her cabaret act, again, something I didn't know about or that she even sang. I can tell show more that there's much to learn about her in this book.

She was definitely a tomboy growing up and eschewed dresses and girly things and wanted to play with her brother and his train sets and wear overalls until her mother incinerated them. Her father always wanted a boy and encouraged boys sports and taught her how to toss a football and play baseball.

She had an affair with Elvis too after he saw The Last Picture Show and wanted to meet her. It didn't last too long. She really didn't like him I think and his lifestyle plus Peter Bogdanovich found out about it after she stopped seeing Elvis anyway. She had a very interesting conversation with him when they were in bed and she asked why he didn't like to go down on her. LOL. I have to look back and see what his response was now.

She name drops a lot of celebrities and how they really were in real life personally and how they helped her in her acting career and most of that is due to her life with Peter. She had a voracious sexual appetite it seems in the 1970s.

I found this book entertaining but I read some of the reviews and they were harsh and critical. show less

I remember hearing that Cybill Shepherd's autobiography was a major tell-all when it was released back in 2000. I love celebrity gossip but somehow never got around to reading it so when it was offered as a free Kindle book last year I snagged it.

Cybill definitely tells all about her sexual escapades but didn't tell very much about anything else. I would have liked to know more about the more personal aspects of her life. This book was basically, "Here is the project I worked on and who I show more slept with while I was working on it." There was an extra big dose of ego throughout as well.

Another large part of the book was Cybill trying to disprove her difficult to work with reputation. I thought it was kind of funny - if almost everyone you work with has a problem with you, maybe you should look inward. Because the book came out right after the television series Cybill came out, Cybill spends a disproportionate amount of the book writing about that series and her conflicts with the network, director, and her costars.

I recommend this book to only the most die-hard US Weekly readers or Cybill Shepherd fans. show less