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This Week At The Cinema: Palestinian Women, a Social Justice Doc, and the Return of Cybill Shepherd

A big week for movies in Memphis kicks off tonight at 7:00 PM at Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Three Palestinian roommates living in Tel Aviv must navigate the conflicts between the modern and the traditional in In Between. The film, which has been getting great reviews from the festival circuit, will be followed by a discussion featuring Memphis-based Palestinian-American artist Yasmine Omari and attorney Paola Palazzolo, who was born in Haifa. This screening is presented by Indie Memphis and Memphis Women in Film.

This Week At The Cinema: Palestinian Women, a Social Justice Doc, and the Return of Cybill Shepherd

Tomorrow night at Crosstown Arts, Indie Memphis presents a pay what you can encore screening of one of the best films of last year’s festival, Marvin Booker was Murdered. You can read a little bit about the film that won the 2017 Soul of Southern Film Award in this Memphis Flyer cover story.

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On Sunday, Indie Memphis pays tribute to one of Memphis’ favorite daughters with a double feature of Cybill Shepherd at the Halloran Center. At 7 PM, Rose, Shepherd’s new film, will have its Memphis premiere. Shepherd plays a woman in a wheelchair who discovers she may be dying and sets off on a long journey of self-discovery across the New Mexico desert. Veteran Rod McCall directs Shepherd, Pam Grier, and James Brolin in this heartfelt drama.

Cybill Shepherd gets serious in Rose

Shepherd will make a rare public appearance in Memphis to talk about the film, and the one that preceeds it. At 3 PM, Memphis, a 1992 television adaptation of Shelby Foote’s novel September, September will hit the big screen for the first time ever.

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See you at the cinema!

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Cybill Shepherd – Supermodel

Cybill Shepherd in 1969

  • Cybill Shepherd in 1969

Most people these days probably think of Cybill Shepherd as mainly a TV and movie actress. And who can blame them, after some really fine roles in the movie The Last Picture Show and then on television with Moonlighting (with Bruce Willis, back when he had hair) and later, Cybill.

Others may know her for her singing, or maybe her political activism, or maybe because she kept a home in the South Bluffs for years and years.

But many people, it seems, have quite possibly forgotten that this East High School graduate was, by any definition of the word, a Supermodel. She got her start by winning the “Miss Teen Memphis” contest in 1966, which launched an extraordinarily successful modeling career. In fact, in the late 1960s, it was hard to pick up a teen or fashion magazine without finding Cybill on the cover or featured inside.

While rooting through the Lauderdale Library one lonely Saturday night, I turned up a collection of Glamour magazines (as shown here) from 1969, 1970, and 1971 with Cybill on the cover. Not only was she a fetching cover model, but rumor has it that director Peter Bogdanovich spotted one of these Glamours while standing in line at a Hollywood supermarket and decided, right then and there, that the then-unknown girl would be perfect as Jacy in The Last Picture Show.

(Other stories claim that his wife actually came up with the idea. If that’s so, she probably came to regret it, since Peter and Cybill started, uh, “dating” after the movie came out.)

The rest, as they say, is history. But here are some other Cybill-adorned Glamours for you to admire.

March 1970

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April 1970

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June 1970

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July 1971

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October 1971

  • October 1971
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Former Shelby County commissioner Walter Bailey, who supports Nikki Tinker in the 9th District Democratic primary, says a commercial juxtaposing images of Congressman Steve Cohen with a Klansman isn’t about race. Asked if he thought the ad would be seen as racially divisive, Bailey answered: “That may be an ancillary side of it, but that’s not the main focus, and it’s not the intended focus.”

If we end this brief report with words like “Walter” and “Bailey” and “transparently dishonest,” we hope everyone will understand it’s our special way of telling kids to stay off drugs.

Awesome Headline

From the Desoto Appeal: “Horn Lake to combat crime a day early.” Gosh, we hope nobody gets involved in an embarrassing temporal paradox.

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Nikki Tinker isn’t the only 9th District candidate doing strange things on TV. In a recent commercial, Congressman Steve Cohen, a repeat visitor on Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report, plays some inside baseball with fans of the show. Cohen’s political pitch flirts with gibberish as he brags about making the host’s “Better Know a District” map and employs such Colbertian phrases as “truthiness,” “the fighting ninth,” and “the Colbert bump.” Apparently, Cohen thinks he needs to shore up support among liberal Midtown hipsters.

Ongoing Elvis

Bang! Showbiz, an online tabloid from the UK, says Cybill Shepherd is haunted by Elvis. “I don’t feel him in a way that I feel I have to call Ghostbusters,” she’s quoted as saying. “But I’ve been haunted by Elvis in the sense that when I knew him, he was very sweet but also seriously into drugs.” Speaking of drugs, Martina McBride, Leann Rimes, Gretchen Wilson, and other female country artists are about to release an album of Christmas duets they recorded with Elvis 30 years after his death.

The ghost of Colonel Tom haunts us all.

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Cybill on Broadway?

According to various reports, Cybill Shepherd may be headed to Broadway this spring in a role described by novelist and occasional playwright Gore Vidal as an alcoholic nymphomaniacal billionairess.

All mean-spirited jokes about typecasting aside, last month The New York Post reported that Vidal had completed Masks Outrageous and Austere, the unfinished play Tennessee Williams was working on in 1983 when he choked on the cap of an eye drop bottle and died. Although no theatre has been booked, Peter Bogdanovitch, who directed Shepherd in The Last Picture Show, has been tapped to helm the project.

Williams’ early, minor, and unfinished works have received quite a bit of attention in recent years. Not About Nightingales, a “lost” work from 1938 was nominated for six Tony Awards after its Broadway debut in 1999, and has since been revived all around the country. Also, writer, actress, and former Memphian Jodie Markell finished shooting the previously unproduced Williams screenplay The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond in September 2007.

Vidal, who abandoned playwriting in the 1960s, says that Williams had only completed 10 pages of the script before he died but it was clear where things were headed.

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Cybill Does Atlanta as “Curvy Widow”

If you’re headed down to Hotlanta in the next month, you might want to check out Memphis Belle Cybill Shepherd in the one-woman comedy, Curvy Widow, at the Alliance Theatre.

From the Alliance Theatre’s website: “Golden Globe winner Cybill Shepherd stars in the World Premiere of Bobby Goldman’s autobiographical play Curvy Widow, an intimate and wildly funny one-woman comedy about love, sex, and misadventures in online dating.

“When a strong-willed, successful, seasoned woman finds herself widowed, she assumes new love will just be a point and click away. But dating in the 21st century proves to offer one fresh surprise after another in this exclusive and empowering night of laughter. Wading through the dating pool, she finally finds that in order to be happy, all she needs to be is herself.”

Hmmm… Well, hopefully, the show itself will be better than the promotional copy. For Ticket information and show times, go here.