Cybill Disobedience!

[maddieaddisonjr]

I searched the site but couldn't find a mention of Cybill's autobiography, co-written by Aimee Lee Ball and published in 2000. The full title is: Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think. (Whew!)

I just bought a used copy through Amazon for one cent plus $3.50 for shipping. I thought it would be the hardback version but it's a paperback copy. I wanted to actually support Cybill by purchasing her book and should have ordered it for the regular price through a bookstore. Even though it's seven years old, I'm sure they'd have some copies in stock somewhere. I don't think she'll see any part of that penny. Oh well...

I'm only up to page 37 out of about 300 pages but so far it's interesting, funny and quite candid. I recommend it to fans and to anyone who likes bios in general. I wanted to meet the real person behind the actress who played 'Maddie Hayes' and to get her side of her own story because I've read some derogatory posts elsewhere and heard some snide comments here and there over the years. I think some people just like to talk trash about famous folk.

Since I've discovered the Moonlighting DVDs I've become a rabid fan again as if it were a brand new series - thus, my interest when I came across this title. But I must admit that the main reason I bought the book is to see what Cybill has to say about ML and Bruce! I haven't gotten to that part yet since I'm still in her childhood years but she made one comment in the Intro/prologue. "Fans are always asking why Bruce Willis and I don't reprise our Moonlighting roles for the big screen. The answer is: studio executives would consider me too old for him now." Sounds like the ol' double standard is still in effect. I won't go off on a tangent but it's okay to pair Bruce with Halle Berry, but not, say, Angela Bassett, Sigourney Weaver, Goldie Hawn, Kim Basinger, Diane Keaton, - hey, why not Candice Bergen? - or the actor with whom he's had the most phenomenal onscreen chemistry - Ms. Shepherd. I guess he'll next be paired with Lindsay Lohan or one of the Olsen twins.

Anyway, she wrote that in 2000 but I still have hope seven years later. Come on, come on; it can and must be done!

To conclude, even if Cybill didn't mention him or the show, CD is so far a pretty good read.

[haddie mayes]

Hi maddieaddisonjr, Great book isn`t.
I had to get my copy from a book seller in Pittsburgh via the internet but i`m glad because as youv`e discovered Cybill has led quite an interesting life ( So far!).
By the way you won`t be disappointed about what she has to say about Bruce Willis , i won`t spoil it for you but lets just say that they could never just be pals ;D What they had went much deeper than any physical connection.
Anyway hope you enjoy the rest of the book . I enjoyed it so much that i`ve read it about three times now.

[Johanna]

YES! It's such a great book! Hard to find though, at least in Europe... But once I finally got one, I couldn't put it down and have read it twice this past year. ;D She's so funny, and the Moonlighting part of it is really greatgreat too.

[maddieaddisonjr]

Well, I finished the book and was glad to have read Cybill's version of herself for a change. However, references to the rampant immorality and cuttroat mentality in the entertainment business repulsed me. So that's it for the celebrity bios.

[Stephanie]

LOL, I have two copies. One American version I bought while I was in L.A. and a Brittish version I got while I was at her show in London. I was 16/17 when I read it, 18 when I went to her show, sitting on the frontrow, my mom was sitting in the back, and Cyb started reading the part about Elvis and her. I was thinking: "OMG! NO!! DON'T READ IT OUT LOUD! I TOLD MY MOM I READ THE BOOK, BUT I DIDN'T TELL HER WHAT WAS IN IT!!"

The book is great, I think I'm going to read it again since it's been almost 4 years ago since I read it and I kinda forgot what was in it.

[tattybytatty]

Hello, I have not read the book of Cybill for a simple reason ... impossible to get it here in Brazil, but those who read it could satisfy my curiosity? What does it say about Bruce at the time of Moonlighting? I once saw an interview of her in which she said one night he appeared at her door, he went and spent a pleasant evening as friends but in the end she said she felt very attracted to him but was too afraid that ouvesse any physical involvement between them that would eventually ruin the chemistry they had in Moonlighting.
Moonlighting unfortunately ended up going down a path that led to the end, those hours I think if someone sacrifices his own happiness really the reason she gave, that if he appeared at her door one night (she said it happened late in the second season) and if she was attracted to him, is that really the real reason was fear of spoiling the chemistry in Moonlighting?

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Apr 8, 2010 14:41:29 GMT -5 tattybytatty said:

Hello, I have not read the book of Cybill for a simple reason ... impossible to get it here in Brazil, but those who read it could satisfy my curiosity? What does it say about Bruce at the time of Moonlighting? I once saw an interview of her in which she said one night he appeared at her door, he went and spent a pleasant evening as friends but in the end she said she felt very attracted to him but was too afraid that ouvesse any physical involvement between them that would eventually ruin the chemistry they had in Moonlighting.
I think if someone sacrifices his own happiness really the reason she gave, that if he appeared at her door one night (she said it happened late in the second season) and if she was attracted to him, is that really the real reason was fear of spoiling the chemistry in Moonlighting?

Apr 8, 2010 14:41:29 GMT -5 tattybytatty said:

I once saw an interview of her in which she said one night he appeared at her door, he went and spent a pleasant evening as friends but in the end she said she felt very attracted to him but was too afraid that ouvesse any physical involvement between them that would eventually ruin the chemistry they had in Moonlighting.

WOW! Please, tell me, is it true, that in an interview she said that?

[lin212]

AddisonHayes, the event that Cybill describes in her autobiography happened earlier than the end of the second season. It was more like the end of the first season. Cybill says that the on-screen attraction between Maddie and David was being "mirrored by the actors who played them". She goes on to say that one day she asked Bruce what they were going to do about it. He said that he would come over that night. He did show up at her apartment and they did begin the dance, but she said that maybe they shouldn't do it because it could harm their on-screen chemistry. As Cybill tells it, they didn't stop at that point, but a little later, Bruce said that maybe she was right. Everything stopped and he left. She said that they never finished what they started.