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Cybill Shepherd: Career
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Cybill Shepherd has seen every view that celebrity affords. She's enjoyed critical and popular praise for appearances in films like The Last Picture Show and served as a punching bag for the tabloid press. She's endured the pointed barbs of co-stars and seen the entertainment press write off her career as DOA. But along with her resolutely independent streak, she is extraordinarily resilient. From the early run-ins with the Hollywood powers that be to her most recent flaunting of industry rules--naming names in a kiss and tell book--BIOGRAPHY® follows her iconoclastic career. And friends and family members offer an unguarded look at what Cybill is like away from the public eye.
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After she is replaced in a movie starring Kenny Rogers, Cybill thinks her career's a flop - until she takes a gamble on accepting an invitation to visit an immigrant family who collectively idolize her. Meanwhile, Rachel tries to counsel Ira out of his neurotic fear of the telephone.
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Throughout her career, Shepherd has been an outspoken activist for issues such as gay rights and abortion rights. She was present at the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in her hometown of Memphis, for which she lent some financial support.
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After a long career with many ups and downs, Shepherd is still out there, scrappy, sassy, sexy ,and with a fine head on her shoulders. Intelligent and remarkably expressive, she not only starred in "Cybill," but was an executive producer for the show. That meant taking responsibility for casting, scripting, mounting, and taping the show, as well as the intricate process of editing and getting the finished tape past network censors who imploded at the word vagina.
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