‘But he got actually very nice at the end. I think his marriage to Demi Moore just had a wonderful influence on him . I don't fight with him anymore. We had a wonderful conversation about three or four months ago and he offered to come on the show and do a little part. The hatchets are buried. The water is under the bridge. What other cliches can you think of? ‘I'm ready to do ‘' Moonlighting: The Sequel' but I don't know. I think I'm the only one. Anyway why are we talking about Bruce Willis? He needs more publicity? He's certainly not making enough money.......' On ‘Cybill' her alter ego is on the lookout for a man if not a fulltime mate. What she calls ‘the husband part' is confused. ‘It's not so much the marriage part that I want to knock. I didn't do too well at it. But just because I failed at it and am quite leery doesn't mean never again. I certainly wouldn't like to warn other people off. I think Peter Bogdanovich and I here the first unmarried couple to appear on a major publication some years ago and we were thoroughly trounced. ‘How dare they say that not being married is sexier! I don't know about the sexiness part. My marriages coincided so close with giving birth and giving birth is not the sexiest thing in the world.' Bogdanovich she credits with being one of the few people who realise ‘ my brain isn't blonde'. She resents not having had children with him. She says there were emotional difficulties over the years but now all is calm: ‘It's really self-knowledge. I don't think I figured out anything until after forty. I really don't. This has to be the best time because you just really know yourself. You make the same old mistakes -- you don't suddenly become perfect. But we change We grow and need different things. ‘Suddenly, for me, I got far more particular. I figured out really what I wanted and for the first time in my life was prepared to wait for it. No man was better than the wrong man. There was a period where I went to all my events by myself and it was very difficult. It's hard for women. The ultimate status symbol in our culture, we are taught as we grow up, is a man on your arm. And you are only as good as the man that you're with so to break away from that takes a lot of courage and it didn't happen to me overnight.' She is changing. In upcoming episodes of her series being screened in America she is to become a grandmother. A glamorous granny? ‘That was my idea and producers said:' We admire you -- you're so brave.'' As if I was saying I was going to cut my head off or something! ‘ Grandparents and raising children! First of all the fastest growing group in America is over 60. Our whole world has changed radically in terms of aging. It's just a totally different world and we're shooting ourselves in the foot not to develop the resources of our elders. ‘ I think the fact that I have this job at all and do what I do has a lot to do with our changing world and the way we treat our elders. The whole cult of youth is so destructive for everybody including the young.' For a world class, outrageous flirt like Cybill Shepherd this is thoughtful stuff. She realises it. Much more telling is the trivia that her star on the Hollywood Walk Fame is outside the Roosevelt Hotel which is bu a hip-swivel away from the shop of the original sex-in-lingerie people Frederick 's of Hollywood . Was it the Procrastinator? Or the Captivator? Uplifting no matter what you call it.
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