A blonde Southern beauty with a fearless attitude – which some described over the years as foolhardy – Cybill Shepherd was a former beauty queen who rose to fame in the early 1970s, after a star-making turn in director Peter Bogdanovich’s Oscar-winning “The Last Picture Show.” Her fame waned by the middle of the decade, thanks to a string of flops and a highly public break-up with her Svengali director/boyfriend, Bogdanovich, but she returned with a vengeance as the sassy P.I. Maddie Hayes on the smart TV comedy, “Moonlighting” (ABC, 1985-89) and as campier TV version of herself on the hit sitcom, “Cybill” (CBS, 1995-98).

Dancing with the Stars premiered last night, and Cloris Leachman ('Bev' who took over from 'Mrs. Garrett' on The Facts of Life) is totally running things. She had the geriatric cleavage, the scared-to-break-a-hip-but-still-plucky moves, and the balls to totally eff with the judges. She's a supercougar and she's going...