Some Moonlighting-isms

TRIVIA NOTE: Named after her grandfather, Cy, and her father, Bill, Cybill Shepherd was born February 18, 1950 in Memphis, TN.  She won the Miss Teenage Memphis competition in 1966 and graduated Memphis East High School in 1968. That same year she became Model of the year.  One of her claims to fame was having dated Elvis Presley when she was nineteen years old. She parlayed her career as a model into movies when director Peter Bogdanovitch saw her face on the cover of Glamour magazine and cast her in the film The Last Picture Show (1971). Cybill went on to become a successful film and TV actress. Her TV credits included THE YELLOW ROSE/NBC/1983-84 (as Colleen Champion, Texas ranch owner); CYBILL/CBS/1995-98 (as Cybill Sheridan Robbins Woodbine, a struggling middle aged actress ); and the host of talk show MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS/SYN/2000-2001. In 2003 she starred in the TV movie Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart. One of her best roles was as Eula Varner in the 1985 remake of William Faulkner's The Long Hot Summer with Don Johnson. Cybill's look-alike daughter, Clementine Shepherd-Ford is also an actress.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, while his father was stationed in the army. Returning to the States, his family relocated to Penns Grove, New Jersey. After his success with MOONLIGHTING, Bruce left the arena of television to make it big in the movies. He is best known for his role as police detective John McClane in the action packed film Die Hard (1988) and its subsequent sequels. Bruce married (and later divorced in 1998) actress Demi Moore and became one of the founders of the restaurant chain know as Planet Hollywood. In 2002, Willis was named Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

If you want to get the low-down on the stars of the series MOONLIGHTING read: Cybill & Bruce: Moonlighting Magic by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel (St. Martin's Press, 1987).

"Moonlighting"
(Lyrics sung by Al Jarreau)

Some walk by night,
Some fly by day,
Nothing could change you,
Set and sure of the way.

There is the sun and moon,
They sing their own sweet tune,
Watch them when dawn is due,
Sharing one space.

We'll walk by night,
We'll fly by day,
Moonlighting strangers
Who just met on the way.

MOONLIGHTING/ABC/1985-89