Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd, star of ABC's hit series "Moonlighting," today confirmed that she is expecting a child in October. Shepherd, 37, also said through her press representative that she will marry Dr. Bruce Oppenheim, her longtime companion, "within the next week or two." The actress has a 7-year-old daughter, Clementine, from her first marriage.

A few of the standout stars from "The Last Picture Show's" ensemble cast: Ben Johnson A longtime member of John Ford's stock company, the veteran character actor earned a supporting actor Oscar as Sam the Lion. Cloris Leachman The actress was appearing as Phyllis on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" when she won the supporting actress Oscar as embittered Ruth Popper. Cybill Shepherd She was a superstar model when she made her film debut as the beautiful, spoiled Jacy Farrow.

Cybill Shepherd will star in "Moonlighting," a new detective series that will replace "Call to Glory" on ABC. "Moonlighting" will debut with a two-hour episode March 3, then will move into its regular time slot of Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on March 5, the network said. "Call to Glory" had its last telecast this week, although a special two-hour episode will be presented as a movie special in April.

Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 SERIES Rubicon: This new series' about an analyst (James Badge Dale) for a government intelligence agency with an eye for finding clues in everyday information that suggest sinister motives by unseen forces, premieres with back-to-back episodes (8 and 9 p.m. AMC). The Next Food Network Star: The five remaining finalists cook for guests Eva Longoria Parker and Todd English at their restaurant, Beso, in this new episode (9 p.m. Food). Drop Dead Diva: Jane (Brooke Elliott)

I am a fan of Cybill Shepherd's "Cybill," and I respect and admire her outspoken support of the human and civil rights of gays and lesbians. However, in her interview with Don Heckman ("Cybill's Moonlight Serenade," Calendar, July 19), Ms. Shepherd made an overstatement, if not an error. She claimed that with the live vocals employed in "At Long Last Love" "Peter [Bogdanovich] reinvented a system that hadn't been used since the '30s." Actually, under the co-direction of Herbert Ross and William Wyler, Barbra Streisand sang "My Man" live for "Funny Girl," her 1968 film debut.

Cybill Shepherd is building a house in her hometown near the co-op that rejected her two years ago. The actress bought a downtown lot on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River for $140,000, said her secretary, Warren Ashley. The lot, in a former railroad yard, is near the Riverbluff Co-op. Its resident board in 1988 rejected Shepherd's application, citing fears that she would be away much of the time and that other people might use her place.

Actress Cybill Shepherd, who plays Maddie Hayes on television's "Moonlighting" series, gave birth Tuesday afternoon to a boy and a girl, and all three were doing fine, her publicist said. Ariel Shepherd Oppenheim, weighing 5 pounds, 11 ounces, was born at 1:06 p.m. Eight minutes later, Zachariah Shepherd Oppenheim, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces, was delivered, publicist Cheryl J. Kagen said. "Mother and babies are extremely happy and healthy," said Kagen, who was at the hospital with the actress.

"Telling Secrets," featuring Ken Olin as a dogged detective and Cybill Shepherd as a coolly venomous femme fatale , fails to justify its two-night length and squanders its suspense with a dizzying array of subplots (at 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday on ABC, Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42). "Although fictionalized, the drama is based on a true story," reports an opening credit roll in what is almost de rigueur in network movieland. No matter.

If fall is the time for networks to learn their lessons, winter is the season to make a few repairs. That may involve a production company abandoning ship ("Blue Skies") for "A Whole New Ballgame" on ABC, keeping some of the cast intact and bringing on a star name.

Cybill Shepherd is sitting in a director's chair in the courtyard of a Pasadena junior high school, relishing a break in the shooting of "There Was a Little Boy," which airs Sunday on CBS. The production's long hours have taken their toll; Shepherd looks exhausted. And time isn't on her side this afternoon. No sooner does she begin to speak with a reporter than she's called back to shoot a scene. How about doing the interview after production's wrapped? Shepherd smiles, in relief.

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Martha movie: CBS, which had planned to air a new TV movie about Martha Stewart's prison stint in May, has removed it from the schedule. No reason was given, nor did the network say when the film, starring Cybill Shepherd, will run. * Play it again: Citing scheduling problems, the Actors' Fund of America has again postponed its staged reading of the script for "Casablanca" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Cybill Shepherd, who already played Martha Stewart in one TV movie, is going to play the homemaking guru again in a new film for CBS that will cover her trial and prison term. The new endeavor, tentatively titled "Martha," will be shot in Toronto. CBS formally announced the project Thursday but did not say when it will air. In May 2003, Shepherd starred in "Martha, Inc.

The rough-cut DVD for tonight's NBC movie "Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart" arrived encased in plastic and accompanied by the book of the same name that inspired it and, alarmingly enough, a nutcracker and two walnuts. I looked at my editor. This could not, in the year of our Lord 2003, be a powerful-woman-as-emasculator-type reference, could it? "I think there's a walnut-cracking scene in the movie," she said, and then she moved quickly away. Both, it turns out, are true.

She thinks there are no great dates left in our life, so I invite my wife to be on television, that jungle ride of talk shows and survival series; two things we know a lot about--talk and survival. Been married almost 20 years. "Want to go on television?" I ask. "Not really," she says. "OK." We are proof that not only have American talk shows run out of hosts, they've run out of guests. Shecky Greene is busy. Totie Fields is gone. Dom DeLuise has other things to do.

"Cybill," benched by disappointed CBS officials in December, returns Wednesday on its new night, following "The Nanny" at 8:30 p.m. For a program that looked like a Monday-night hit three years ago before bouncing to Sunday and back again, the Cybill Shepherd vehicle's run this spring could be the final leg of a dispiriting journey. Asked to succeed "Murphy Brown" in CBS' key 9 p.m. Monday slot, "Cybill" struggled opposite NBC's "Caroline in the City" and Fox's surprising "Ally McBeal."

'This is so pat-myself-on-the-back," she is saying, "but it's so amazing to have your work appreciated 20 years later." Once Cybill Shepherd lived on magazine covers: Vanity Fair during her "Moonlighting" days. People, first when her affair with Peter Bogdanovich made them a hot, semi-scandalous item in the '70s, and a decade later when she had twins with her second husband. It seemed the natural legacy of the strapping blond who'd walked out of Memphis, Tenn.

Susan Shaw thinks the Oct. 14 "Cybill" was totally one-sided (Counterpunch, Nov. 11). The only thing she is upset about is that it is the "wrong side" of her perspective. For years, we have been exposed to TV shows that end up with the characters "seeing the light" and rejecting gun ownership by the closing credits. Finally, we see on "Cybill" a character with another viewpoint, and gun control groups are angered. Of course, Shaw quotes the usual questionable statistics that a gun in the home triples the risk of shooting a family member.