I think it’s time we revisit “The Last Picture Show” (1971) and the beauty that was Cybill Shepherd

That woman had a jawline like Jack Palance. Heaven knows what she looks like now.

Ans she must have been suss if she got it on with little Frankenheimer or whatever his name was.

OP - you "never knew" Jeff Bridges was in it? You never read a credit? Review? And yet you adore this movie?

Love Cybill. She’s fierce, appealing and engaging. I wish she worked more.

If there were a Cybill Shepard biopic, who would play her?

a must see for all the stars, young and old, that are in it....unreall….number one is the classic legendary performance of miss cloris leachman. ..its burned into my soul, they way she falls apart having loved the young boy, and then he ditches her. soooo goood

And Randy Quaid

R3 You say she's 'fierce' but Is she aggressive as well? Is she aggressive in a masculine way?

The dictionary meaning of the word 'fierce' is 'having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness'.

Gary Brockette was the star of my Last Picture Show.

Angela Lansbury should have played the Cloris Leechman part, she would have been tremendous.

I have the DVD signed by Academy Award winner Cloris Leechman.

R8 is that from The Directors cut?

In the theatrical release we don’t see his cock

I don't know, r11. I've only seen that pic on the internet. I didn't remember seeing dong in the movie, either, last time I watched it, sometime in the early 2000s. I just ordered the director's cut (2010). I'll get back to you on it.

I always remember dong from the movie. I’ll rewatch my copy and report back.

[quote] If there were a Cybill Shepard biopic, who would play her?

Well, Sharon Stone, Catherine O’Hara, Annette Bening, Katey Segal and Annie Potts have all played unflattering versions of her. In the case of Segal and Potts, each had previously acted opposite Cybill before so it makes you wonder how much that colored their performances.

To hell with Cybil. Let's talk about all the hot guys in that scene. Even crazy Randy Quaid was kind of sexy in a doofus way.

R4, Miss Martha Stewart, of course.

Cybill played Martha Stewart in a TV movie

Well...no putting one over on r17.

I’ve always wondered if the sequel, Texasville, is worth watching. Is it?

R18 I have never seen it but I always heard it was stupid and a soap opera.

“The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. People assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?“

I hated Texasville but thought the novel sucked.

There are 5 novels based on these characters.

Timothy Bottoms has such an unfortunate surname

Cybill Shepherd was cast with the option of backing out of her nude scenes if she so desired. She only agreed to do them after asking the opinions of three female costars - Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn and Eileen Brennan - who all thought she should do them.

It's a great movie and what stands out is the cinematography, the music, and how well the characters are drawn (particularly from the three great ladies: Leachman, Brennan, and Burstyn). I've seen it many times, and my only challenges are with the occasional weak acting performances and choppy editing.

R22 - what are the other three and are they any good?

Didn’t Cybill get cast in this because the director saw her on the cover of a magazine?

And then she had a “fling” with Jeff Bridges and then started fucking the Director, who was married with kids and that destroyed his family?

R26 they are...

“The Last Picture Show” (1966)

“Texasville” (1987)

“Duane’s Depressed” (1999)

“When The Light Goes” (2007)

“Rhino Ranch: A Novel” (2009)

Only the first is good but it’s still An entertaining read.

Did Cybill screw the Bottoms brothers?

r26, if you like TLPS and its follow-up novels, you may enjoy Larry McMurtry's earlier Texas trilogy, Moving On, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, and Terms of Endearment. He was my favorite author other than Philip Roth in the early '70s, before we started to have so many gay novels to read.

r26, if you like TLPS and its follow-up novels, you may enjoy Larry McMurtry's earlier Texas trilogy, Moving On, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, and Terms of Endearment. He was my favorite author other than Philip Roth in the early '70s, before we started to have so many gay novels to read.

Fun fact... Annie Potts was a front runner to become an Oscar contender for “Texasville” until the movie tanked, killing any chances of her getting the nomination

[quote]And kudos to Cloris Leachman for getting that young, fresh Cock.

All 3 seconds of it.

R33 you would kill to have 3 seconds with a young HS hottie

Thanks r28!

[quote] [R26], if you like TLPS and its follow-up novels, you may enjoy Larry McMurtry's earlier Texas trilogy, Moving On, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, and Terms of Endearment.

Thanks for the recommendation r30! I actually read that trilogy about 30 years ago. Strangers was a drag but I enjoyed Moving On (Patsy’s story) and especially Terms which is a great read and very different from the film (although I enjoyed that too).

I thought Ellen Burstyn was beautiful in this movie too.

Timothy Bottoms was so much cuter than Jeff Bridges in this, and I liked his character so much more.

I think you’re supposed to like Bottoms character much more than Bridges. It’s too bad he got shortchanged in Texasville.

I Think It’s Time We Revisit the BEST EVER released shallow grave when the Aspie Pop Cultural Cataloguer goes Straight Down the Shitter Seen as a Great Beauty in Her Day?

It's still a real shame that Randy Quaid is full-frontal in this (that scene you posted if you freeze-frame) though he was kind of cute back then, and in some bizarre self-posts in recent years, and that his hot brother Dennis never did full-frontal. Timothy Bottoms went full-frontal a few yeas ago in a film called "Welcome to The Men's Group" along with one of Patty Duke's kids and some other guys.

It's a shame Timothy Bottoms waited decades later to do a nude scene. Would rather have seen him naked when he was younger.

What was wrong with Cybill Shepard’s character? She was going from guy to guy, causing issues and fights and drama.

Cybill was perfectly cast as Jacy in this.

McMurtry dedicated Texasville to her but rumor was he tried to retract the dedication after Cybill married Bruce Oppenheimer- I guess McMurtry still had the hots for her? Anyway, Cybill was awful in Texasville and didn’t have the dramatic skills the character now required (Jacy returns home after losing a child). I had high hopes because she had several dramatic scenes on Moonlighting which she handled quite well. I think she lost her acting ability (again) with the birth of the twins.

[quote]In the theatrical release we don’t see his cock

I know those boys needed a chiropractor after spending all day hunched over and contorting to avoid showing their flaccid little dicks.

The theatrical release you see him walk out of the water waist up. No Cock.

If you look closely r44, the one that is changing the music has a modesty sock over his junk.

I found Timothy Bottoms adorable. I never found Jeff Bridges attractive, and always found his screen presence off-putting.

A transcendent film that blows me away every time.

A great film with terrific performances from almost everyone. Shepherd is the weakest but is a good fit with the role of flirtatious prettiest girl in town who gets in over her head with the various men/boys in her life. She's surrounded with better actors with more nuanced parts and I think that's why she doesn't bring down the picture. Burstyn, Brennan, and Leachman are all spot-on. Ditto Ben Johnson and the Bottoms brothers. It is a heartbreaking film and much better than the other big coming of age film of the time "Summer of '42".

Of course Jeff Bridges is the most gorgeous guy in the cast and we get Randy Quaid nude.

Re: the Brockette dong. It was visible in the full screen (unmatted) VHS version of the film, which is how I first saw it. It's out of frame on all the widescreen DVD versions I've seen, unfortunately.

Agree that Timothy Bottoms was really cute in this.

I didn’t realize until I watched that clip that Cybill was so spectacularly beautiful as a young woman.

Ben Johnson is so spectacular in this. His scene by the pond was so bittersweet.

Cybill was very beautiful. I hated her character

This film holds up beautifully

Ben Johnson originally declined the movie because he didn't approve of swearing. Bogdanovich knew John Ford (worshiped him to be more accurate). Ford called Johnson and talked him into accepting.

[quote]If there were a Cybill Shepard biopic, who would play her?

Alicia Silverstone would've been good 20 years ago.

[quote]Did Cybill screw the Bottoms brothers?

I seem to remember reading that there was a little flirtation going on between Cybill and Tim Bottoms. He gifted her a copy of the book "Daisy Miller" that she took to Peter Bogdanovich as a possible follow up movie for her (gee, thanks a LOT, Tim!). Ambitious Cybill of course dumped Tim for the more-powerful producer/director, and Bottoms has been bitter (to put it mildly) towards Peter ever since. He even gave an interview recently in which he claims to have fucked Dorothy Stratten before Peter did.

What's the deal with Cybill? She sure got a strong reaction from industry folk, but she worked forever... I read her autobiography a long time ago and she was funny.