Cybill made great sacrifices to move to Hollywood and allow herself to exploit her own appearance. She should be proud she had no front end surgical enhancements, below her neck, of course. She is an icon of the unglamorous lifestyle and fame she gave up to become Cybill Shepherd, renown social observer and commentator. Her impact was never limited by the way she made her living playing a rather or mostly dumb blonde. No, no, no, she never rode that stereotype to fame and glory. She read Goethe instead and practiced meditation with Richard Geer, in a desperate attempt to be taken seriously.
And as a result, she never will be.
Why is it those who work in the world of make believe, pretending to be characters and dressing up on different costumes, adopting accents and prostheses, insist on being taken seriously? Hollywood, or local theater, is the most capitalist venture on earth. You can hand out awards to minorities, but you cannot make audiences pay to see actors who do not entertain them (most often including nudity and violence). It truly is all about the money. And those who work, manage, and run Hollywood are some of the worst get-rich-quick scammers in the world. Thus, phony celebrities with phony personas, playing other people or characters suddenly decide they can convince us they are deep, reflective, well read, educated, and worthy of being taken seriously.
Cybill Shepherd is the kind of person who doesn’t like the Electoral College and would never send her children there.
If you recall, the public hue and cry against Cybil came from the "religious right" (few of whom were truly "right," and many of whom were not really all that religious).
Thank you for the link to the Summarize Proust competition. I'd never seen that skit before and it had me laughing all the way through. I really miss Monty Python.
No need to miss MPFC . . . all available online . . . and since there are some skits you have never seen, much of it will be fresh to you. And to me, since I am so old I can enjoy the same novel/movie every couple of weeks as brand new. Then, the dead parrot sketch can be watched over and over on a loop and be funny every time. I don't think the cartoons (the stomping foot especially) have aged all that well, however.
Cybill made great sacrifices to move to Hollywood and allow herself to exploit her own appearance. She should be proud she had no front end surgical enhancements, below her neck, of course. She is an icon of the unglamorous lifestyle and fame she gave up to become Cybill Shepherd, renown social observer and commentator. Her impact was never limited by the way she made her living playing a rather or mostly dumb blonde. No, no, no, she never rode that stereotype to fame and glory. She read Goethe instead and practiced meditation with Richard Geer, in a desperate attempt to be taken seriously.
And as a result, she never will be.
Why is it those who work in the world of make believe, pretending to be characters and dressing up on different costumes, adopting accents and prostheses, insist on being taken seriously? Hollywood, or local theater, is the most capitalist venture on earth. You can hand out awards to minorities, but you cannot make audiences pay to see actors who do not entertain them (most often including nudity and violence). It truly is all about the money. And those who work, manage, and run Hollywood are some of the worst get-rich-quick scammers in the world. Thus, phony celebrities with phony personas, playing other people or characters suddenly decide they can convince us they are deep, reflective, well read, educated, and worthy of being taken seriously.
Cybill Shepherd is the kind of person who doesn’t like the Electoral College and would never send her children there.
Why am I only finding out about the Monty Python Proust skit now? It's an outrage!
Honestly, I do like to keep abreast of these things.
One of my favorite bits of trivia is that the "Here they are..." line was written by Dick Cavett.
I still laugh when I remember Shepherd offering this movie review, "Am I the only one who got hungry watching Babe?"
If you recall, the public hue and cry against Cybil came from the "religious right" (few of whom were truly "right," and many of whom were not really all that religious).
Thank you for the link to the Summarize Proust competition. I'd never seen that skit before and it had me laughing all the way through. I really miss Monty Python.
No need to miss MPFC . . . all available online . . . and since there are some skits you have never seen, much of it will be fresh to you. And to me, since I am so old I can enjoy the same novel/movie every couple of weeks as brand new. Then, the dead parrot sketch can be watched over and over on a loop and be funny every time. I don't think the cartoons (the stomping foot especially) have aged all that well, however.
DINSDALE!!!!