In this March 28, 2012 photo, actress Cybill Shepherd poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. Shepherd stars in the Lifetime series “The Client List.” (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)MIKE CIDONI LENNOX
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – For Cybill Shepherd, her role on “The Client List” is all about happy endings.
After a career as a teen model in the late ’60s, she made her transition to film as the muse to boyfriend-director Peter Bogdanovich in his critically beloved “The Last Picture Show,” and then scored commercial and critical success again in director Elaine May’s “The Heartbreak Kid” and Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.”
But two ambitious big-screen Bogdanovich disappointments (“Daisy Miller” and “At Long Last Love”) were, in part, the reason she retired in the late ’70s.
Shepherd returned with two successful TV series, the ’80s detective comedy “Moonlighting” and the ’90s sitcom “Cybill,” the memories of both tarnished by stories of behind-the-scenes strife after Shepherd was snubbed by the Emmys and watched co-stars Bruce Willis and Christine Baranski go home with the gold.