People: Oct. 28, 1985

It's about time, as Cybill Shepherd sees it. The erstwhile cover girl made a dazzling film debut 14 years ago as a budding beauty in The Last Picture Show, but the early promise of that role seemed to go unfulfilled. Several movies and a television series, Yellow Rose, flopped. Then last spring she let her hair down as the frosty and funny Maddie in the ABC-TV series Moonlighting. The critics applauded, and since it returned to the air this fall, the show has made several appearances in the Top Ten. "It was real hard for me to break out of that...

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