Is Shepherd as big a bitch as all the gossip claims?

Well, since Cybill wrote "Cybill Disobedience", you can expect that you're getting just one side of it.

I haven't read the book, but over the years stories of her being hard to work with have appeared from different sources with several of her projects.

On the other hand, what appears on-screen is still usually very good. If there are backstage difficulties they never appear on-screen. Sometimes she has even parodied media accounts of her behavior on-screen. I remember one episode of "Moonlighting" where she held up a gauzy handkerchief over face because at the time the rumors were she demanded that she be filmed with a gauzy cover over the camera lens to hide her age.

I like Cybill, and loved this show (well, the first two seasons) but I've just recently read her autobiography and she has very little good to say about Christine (whom I also love). I have to say, it's Cybill who comes off worse in her writing about the show, though. She blatantly claims that she'd been warned about 'watching her back' around Christine from the start, and that she knew she wasn't dealing with a 'Mr Nice Guy' (or gal). She also complains about Christine walking off the set during the last episode, which seems unprofessional until she casually mentions that the poor woman's brother had dropped dead not long before the final two episodes were filmed! In fact, throughout the section of the book about the TV show, one person after another is portrayed as betraying and/or falling out with Cybill for no apparent reason. Christine, for example, also comes under fire for not giving audience reaction time to Cybill's jokes, for allegedly conspiring with CBS execs about getting her own show behind Cybill's back, and for rebuffing Cybill's attempts at an offset friendship. She is also catty about Alicia Witt (she says she was a spoiled, pouting brat), Alan Rosenberg (a 'terrific actor' but she points out his bad acting habits) and Dedee Pfieffer (who apparently stayed friendly with ex-crew members who had crossed Cybill). And those are just the cast! Obviously we just see Cybill's side of the story, of course...


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