European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Daily Magazine i to comedy by Jerry Buck associated press cybill the former Beauty Queen and frosty tease in a Hal dozen also can make people in her second television abcs she is proving to be adept at both verbal and visual comedy and As straight Man for costar Bruce Ive never done this kind of role she although i did comedy in Silver bears in Ive always wanted to do a in she plays Maddie a top Fash Ion Model whose business manager skips with All her Money and leaves her the owner of a shaky detective Agency she had bought As a tax she ends up throwing in with the head of the who plays a fast talking connived named David she has a great says a former new York standup Shes Good to play off when you have a Good script you need someone Good to play off Shes is now on her second quest for following a return to her Hometown of Mem after her movie career dried she was just barely out of her teens when director Peter Bogdonovich spotted her picture on the cover of Glamour Magazine and cast her in the last picture she had been voted miss congeniality in the miss a photo cybill Shepherd finds that comedy requires a lot of concentration it is a real teenage America Competition and then won a Model of the year contest that took her to new she was on the cover of Glamour eight times in the year Bogdonovich found they did three movies he was my first great teacher in she i Learned a lot from the three other women in the last picture Eileen Cloris Leachman and Ellen then i worked for Elaine May in the Heartbreak kid and i Learned some comedy from Bogdonovich became not Only her Mentor but her companion and As we lived together for she that time i worked with some heavyweight but it was time for the relationship to be i was ready for Many different she she is ready to work with Bogdonovich soon after she returned to Memphis in 1978 she married David they had a now they were divorced in while in Memphis she recorded jazz and country Western Al bums and played jazz clubs and regional theater across the one of the things that got me Back to Memphis was getting involved in renovating she i helped save the a 1928 we had a Benefit and raised Money to save in her motor Home dressing parked outside the sound she has a drawing by Clementine tacked to the its a stick figure labelled Abraham Lincoln in the when Shepherd returned to Hollywood she tackled her first to abcs yellow a sort of West Ern soap she played a Rich widow with three All older than i thought that made it very she the whole Point is that they were older than i but yellow Rose struck Rock Bottom in the ratings and never Rose i know that the original plot be simple she Sams character one of her step sons and mine were supposed to get but Sam didst want to do i thought it would be the Pilot for written by executive producer Glenn was brought to Shep Herd when Only 50 pages had been it was written with her in the Pilot required Shepherd and Willis to do a Harold Lloyd style act hanging from a huge clock High up on the Side of a building in downtown los she did much of her own stunt she swims laps at Duclas olympic size Pool to stay in bicycles and works out with i in one that i could have worked in the 30s and she because i would have loved to do screwball that what this in a comedy is but its very it requires a lot of its a real she my epitaph will read Well make this a comedy the stars and stripes Page 13
