Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.
Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Patty (née Shobe), a homemaker, and William Jennings Shepherd, who managed a home appliance business. Named after her grandfather Cy and her father Bill, Shepherd won the 1966 "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest at age 16, and the 1968 "Model of the Year" contest at age 18, making her a fashion star of the 1960s, resulting in fashion modeling work through high school and after.
According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich. His then-wife Polly Platt, claimed that it was she who upon seeing the cover in a check-out line in a Ralphs grocery store in southern California, said "That's Jacy," referring to the role Bogdanovich was casting — and ultimately offered to Shepherd — in The Last Picture Show (1971).
Plot
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
Keywords: cameo-appearance, cooking, directed-by-star, hollywood, human-relationship, independent-film, muse, satire, screenwriter, tampon
In Goddess we trust.
Sarah: I feel like you're losing your edge.::Steven Phillips: Jesus! I am hearing this from everybody!::Sarah: That's because it's true.
Steven Phillips: The muse, the muse... the goddamn muse.
Sarah: Honey, all the gods drink!
Jennifer Tilly: Isn't Josh a doll?::Steven Phillips: Oh, yes, he's a real doll. He's like a regular little Chucky.
Laura Phillips: [after Sarah has escaped with tied-together bedsheets] Those are my best sheets!::Steven Phillips: That is so low on our priority scale right now.
Nurse Rennert: This is Hollywood. People here believe anything!
Steven Phillips: [to the gate guard, after being informed that he may enter the studio grounds as a 'walk-on'] Let me ask you - is this the lowest a human being can go? I mean, is there such a thing as a 'crawl on?'
Martin Scorsese: I want to do a remake of "Raging Bull" with a really thin guy. Not just thin, but REALLY thin. Thin and angry, thin and angry, thin and angry. Can you see it? Can you see it?::Steven Phillips: Kind of.::Martin Scorsese: Is there a Starbucks near here?::Steven Phillips: I'd be careful. I think you had your quota.::Martin Scorsese: Quota! That gives me an idea for something else entirely. I don't know you, we never had this conversation, we never met. [walks off]::Steven Phillips: Hey, I sent you a script a few years ago.::Martin Scorsese: Never got it.
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for someone I really could care for
And then suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper 'please adore me'
But when I looked, that moon had turned to gold
Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone