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Summary: Entertaining!
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Cybill Shepherd is a headstrong Southern woman! Throughout her 15 minutes of fame she's remained true to her own passionate spirit, rulebreaking lifestyle, and humorous way of looking at the lifestyle of a Hollywood wannabe-star-wannabe-star.There's way too much kiss and tell in Cybill's book, but, in romance, she seems to see her own contribution to the failures of relationships with fascinating men such as Orson Welles, Robert DeNiro, Elvis, David Letterman and Peter Bogdanovich. You can tell how much she's learned about acting and singing from the way she's directed her career, (not to mention the success she's had on the large and small screen, in concert, and on stage!) that she was not going to be the fabulous face that went from the runway to a brief acting career based solely on her looks. Yes, in telling of her family and the men in her life, she's remarkably honest and open. Cybill has a little more trouble accepting responsibility for the untimely death of her two great sitcoms...."Moonlighting" with Bruce Willis, and "Cybill" with Christine Baranski. She played a singularly important role in bringing both of them to television, and in heightening their success, but ultimately was too dictatorial about content and her role, and unhappy about the success of her costars to allow the shows to continue peacefully. But, her spirit is why we've come to love her... and her autobiography is a fun, chatty sneak peek at the lifestyle of a less than ordinary star. You'll have fun with it!
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Summary: Example of one version of the Liberated Life
Review: Cybill Disobedience : How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
by Cybill Shepherd
This was an interesting read and useful as a resource since it is a first person description of the kind of life one can lead as a liberated (using the pill) female. Not only was Cybill successful, but as she says, she was "a very, very, bad girl." Cybill did what she wanted to do.
Regardless of whether or not this sort of life should be recommended, it is certainly a resource that can be referred to as an example.
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Summary: A Genuine Cybill Fan
Review: I have to say that I truly loved this book. I laughed out loud many times. I really enjoyed Cybill's frankness and honesty about her past experiences. I have been a fan of Cybill Shepherd since her Moonlighting days. Even back then, there was always something that I admired about her. I couldn't put my finger on it until I read this book. Cybill reveals many secrets about her life over the years, especially her various sexual encounters. She also writes about her many experiences in movies and TV. I am a young woman and could very much relate to her tales of love, lust and betrayal. Cybill states clearly that she always did what pleased her and what pleased her was sex. Only a woman like Cybill could make a comment like that. She is so candid and such a real person. Some of us feel might feel this way but don't have the guts to say so. It's very hard to take an honest look at yourself and then reveal your soul to everyone. You can see how she has grown and realized the mistakes that she has made along the way but more importantly how she has learned from them. I admire her courage and strength for that. So, Kudos to Cybill for such an honest and humerous look at her very interesting life. I am an even bigger fan now than I was before.
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Summary: You have to be a big fan, to find all of this interesting.
Review: I'm not a biography reader but I loved this book. I'm also not a fast reader and started Cybill Disobedience almost exactly two months ago and read it at the same time as several other books but I didn't skip any bits because Cybill Shepherd writes well and writes about interesting topics. Ms Shepherd immediately grabbed my interest because she's a Boomer as I am and I found that the events of her early life were recognizable to me even though I lived on the other side of the States and in a vastly different environment. I enjoyed her childhood observations and although her life had little to do with the life I'd led, those observations were accurate on a universal level. However,I found her biography a little hard to relate to in the final chapters-not a reflection on her writing but a reflection of my own contemporary distance chronologically and geographically from the personal warfare that seems to be part of the Hollywood playing field. When all has been said, I thought her prose was a reflection of her speech-quick, slightly acerbic, intelligent and levened with deadpan humour. Cybill Disobedience was a wonderful read and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: A brave look at Hollywood.
Review: I'm not a biography reader but I loved this book. I'm also not a fast reader and started Cybill Disobedience almost exactly two months ago and read it at the same time as several other books but I didn't skip any bits because Cybill Shepherd writes well and writes about interesting topics. Ms Shepherd immediately grabbed my interest because she's a Boomer as I am and I found that the events of her early life were recognizable to me even though I lived on the other side of the States and in a vastly different environment. I enjoyed her childhood observations and although her life had little to do with the life I'd led, those observations were accurate on a universal level. However,I found her biography a little hard to relate to in the final chapters-not a reflection on her writing but a reflection of my own contemporary distance chronologically and geographically from the personal warfare that seems to be part of the Hollywood playing field. When all has been said, I thought her prose was a reflection of her speech-quick, slightly acerbic, intelligent and levened with deadpan humour. Cybill Disobedience was a wonderful read and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Not your typical southern girl
Review: Since I live in Memphis, I looked forward to this book. I casually know two people who dated her and was interested in her perspective. Cybill has been on Hollywood's "out" list more than any other living actress. This book gives her time to have her side of the story told. But frankly, listening to her side of the story, you can envision the other side and understand why she has had relationship problems in Hollywood. I'm not sure Cybill quite gets it but thinks she does. Irrespective, she has had an interesting life and a story I enjoyed reading. If you like sex tell-alls, this is your book although she does hide some names showing at least a shred of diplomacy. She also touches on troubled relationships in her family and how she has taken four hours of therapy for the last 10 years. Probably the most fascinating part of the book is the introspective review in the last chapter. It's almost out of character with the book but does show what a deep thinker she can be. I recommend the book for a quick read about Hollywood, sexual liberation or feminist viewpoints. A menage with two men? Not your typical southern girl.
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Summary: You have to be a big fan, to find all of this interesting.
Review: Some interesting comments about show business, and about some of the people she worked with, and went to bed with. The last part, about her TV show, "Cybill," would only interest a BIG fan of the show. (Who did what and who said what about the show's individual episodes isn't exactly gripping reading.) (I'm glad it's a short book.)
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Summary: a smart woman in a real short skirt
Review: The first I ever heard of Cybill Shepherd (I suspect I'm of the wrong generation) was a clipping from a friend, saying she had been ogling LOTR's Orlando Bloom (young enough to be her son) on live television. I recall being puzzled by her behavior. After reading this book, I think I know why. In all honesty, I felt rather embarrassed to be reading this book. The book chronicles her life, from a not-so-innocent girlhood in the South to an up-and-down movie career, and ending right around the demise of her self-titled show "Cybill." She happily breaks all the rules set down in her girlhood, and goes through a long list of emotional situations ranging from heartbreak to love to happiness to sadness. It follows her through three kids, a few marriages, oodles of movies, two TV shows, and a seemingly endless string of lovers. Oh gosh, where to begin? Despite her comments near the beginning that she couldn't "tell it all," there's a pretty honest feel to it all. Cybill seems unafraid to reveal some of her uglier or more humiliating moments, her personal traumas (like the admission of infidelity from her ex), and her professional disappointments, as well as all the people she's ticked off. (Well, if not all of them, then most, I think) At times, however, you wonder what the other side of the story is, and whether the full story is being told. What bothered me was Cybill's continuous focus on her love life and how many men she slept with, and how, and where, and why. First, I find the details embarrassing, as is her blithe attitude to them. Second, it seems that this -- and not her acting career -- is the focus of the book. Whenever Cybill meets a man in this book, married or single, of whatever age, she always seems to be summing him up on a sexual level: whether or not she's attracted to him, what she did/didn't do with him. From her girlhood onward, virtually everything revolves around the men she's sleeping with and whatever effects it had on her life. I find this attitude not liberated, but obsessive. Is Cybill's life no more than the sum of her affairs? She also uses this book as something of a soapbox for her views on sexuality, ideas about chastity, homosexuality, abortion, and cohabitation. (Add this to her spicier anecdotes about some affairs, and you get the idea that this is not a book kids should read) These views got no response at all from me - whatever response she hoped to get, disapproval or delight, she didn't get it. My response was overall, "Yeah, uh-huh, whatever." Admittedly, the book is hilariously written; despite the ghostwriter who undoubtedly did a lot of the work, there's something of a sharp tang to it that is probably Cybill's doing. When she shifts focus from her love life to her career, we get a great look inside the nasty, fickle, hypocritical arena best known as Hollywood. I loved the insight glimpses of what making movies was like, the bad and the good, and giggled when her mother watched her in a nude scene. You don't often hear honesty about what acting in the movie/television industry is like, just snippets and excerpts from unusually honest actors, and this book is refreshingly honest about it. I felt that this could have been a great autobiography, if Cybill had focused more on her acting career and less on her bedroom. As it is, it's a rather embarrassing guilty pleasure.
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Summary: Cybill does Hollywood!
Review: This is a very interesting book in that you will just keepshaking your head and looking at the cover with Cybill on it andsaying "oh my..." Cybill is unreal. She is so completelyopen and honest in this book that it is hard not to like her eventhough she makes it almost impossible TO like her! She talks (insequence) about every guy she ever slept with, her first time, athreesome. She talks scathingly about very famous people inHollywood. About her life and rise (and fall) to fame. It is not a"page turner" but it is entertaining and gossipy. It wouldbe the perfect "I don't have to think at all" beach book.She talks about her affair with Elvis too. If you really like Cybill,you probably SHOULD NOT read this book....she does not paint a prettypicture of herself. She is constantly cheating on people, havingaffairs with married men and just being plain nasty. I can't believeit was written by HER and not someone out to make her look bad! Itsnot worth the [the amount paid...], but if you can get it in paperbackor for less, its worth reading and passing along to friends. She is avery INTERESTING lady!
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Summary: Cybill jumps into bed with any man/ learns little with age.
Review: This is a very shallow book about Cybill's life. She tells all about her numerous, and I mean numerous affairs--Elvis doesn't care for oral sex, she engaged in a threesome with a stuntman,so on and so forth. Cybill constantly reminds the reader of her beauty, a picture of her and former lover Bogdonavich is quoted "We're Peter and Cybill and you aren't". Bruce Willis comments to her that he can't say his lines because she is so beautiful. And she feels that only God could love her for qualities other than her blondeness. Enough already-we all know you are beautiful Cybill. Cybill doesn't seem to grow much intellectaully with age through the book, but I guess she figures with her beauty... Buy this book if A) you want to read what makes her tick (her beauty and sexual relationships) B) You are interested in a sleezy, careless sexual lifestyle C) You need to be reminded that she is beautiful
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