Brooke Shields

She dated a few actors

She was the most beautiful teenager since Elizabeth Taylor.

She looks like Tyrone Power now. She's before my time but I don't think she was ever successfully slutty looking. She had an Alice in Wonderland look, her body was just too big for her once very pretty face.

I don't know how she convinced a network, producers and investors that she had the talent to lead a prime-time sitcom.

That time she spent the whole day doubled over on the couch after a scorching case of nightsweats and the Chipotle trots.

I always thought she was a horrible actress. Until I saw her on the Middle. Her white trash Rita Glossner character is fantastic!

Her parents were pimps.

Brooke was claiming to be a virgin into her late-20s, but years later she admitted to sleeping with Dean Cain when they were freshmen at Princeton. This PR stunt was Teri's stupid idea and I think the virginal persona limited the types of roles Brooke was offered. Otherwise, Brooke seems remarkably genuine. Beautiful child, handsome woman.

Her virginity limited the roles she played? Like when she played a child prostitute? Or when she played a teenager stuck on an island getting boned and then birthing out a baby?

I remember her doing a good job in Freeway.

Saw her perform some Broadway numbers on the Intrepid ship for Fleet week. She was having a ball and the audience loved it

"Beautiful child, handsome woman."... good description. She was absolutely stunning as a child.. I even think she was more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor as a child. With all of her beauty, she seems to be genuinely nice and down to earth.

She is a horrible actress who looks like she is transitioning into Caitlyn Jenner.

The New York Times reviewed PRETTY BABY (I think) by commenting "Brooke Shields has a face that transcends the need to act."

She's never really grown into being a great actress, and at times she was downright bad. But she will always be a remarkable camera subject.

R9, she was a minor in those roles. It was very bizarre in the 1980s, when she was an adult, to watch her declare and allude to her virginity. She was faking it, her "virgin" routine was so peculiar and it was because Mom Teri was managing her career.

Paulina Porizkova imitating Brooke Shields by Avedon on the cover of Vogue

I like that Paulina pokes fun at the industry, even at herself. She looks great.

And?

Her virginity, perceived or otherwise, didn't limit the roles she played. Again, she played sexual roles before. She stopped acting while in college and then picked up again when she left. It didn't limit the roles she took on. Her lack of ability is what limited her roles.

And Brooke was amazing in Calgary!

A friend told me she lost her virginity to another guy at Georgetown who wasn't Dean Cain.

Was the Georgetown guy Henry Kissinger?

She was more of a media personality than an actress. Even in her prime she was mostly doing low budget European movies.

She guest starred prominently in Law and Order SUV as a babysitter for Noah.

[quote]r17 Her virginity, perceived or otherwise, didn't limit the roles she played. Again, she played sexual roles before. She stopped acting while in college and then picked up again when she left. It didn't limit the roles she took on. Her lack of ability is what limited her roles.

Mmmmmm....but you might argue that her own (along with her mother's) conservative image of herself limited the roles she accepted. This may have been a counter reaction to her earlier sexualized roles. Terri Shields convinced her daughter to turn down the role of Elvira in SCARFACE...presumably turned off by all the cursing and cocaine. Shields turned down WILD ORCHID and the lesbian girlfriend part (Roxy) in BASIC INSTINCT because those required nudity. In many ways she was quite straight laced, even though her breakthrough roles, and some modeling shots, were [italic]risque.[/italic]

She chose awful material (like BRENDA STARR and SAHARA) at a transitional time in her film career when it mattered most, and after more bad films slid down into TV work...and being a replacement performer on Broadway.

Some creepy photos come up when you search "Brooke Shields young"

Suck It, Bitch

Michelle was awesome in "Scarface". I doubt Brooke could have hacked Elvira.

Brooke is talentless. She's an ex model and tennis wife.

"That's it, Brooke. Hold your ass and legs open...That was great, Brooke. Okay, one more time. Now really stick your butt out and spread your legs as much as you can."

Turning down Scarface may have been a good move on her part because she never could have acted it.

And turning down Wild Orchid wasn't a bad move either as it would have done nothing for her career. Same goes for Basic Instinct. It's not like those were breakout or award winning roles for the women who ended up with them.

Brooke is good at what she does which is... limited.

[quote]r26 Michelle was awesome in "Scarface". I doubt Brooke could have hacked Elvira.

I suspect the part she probably turned down was that of the sister, Gina (played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and the details have become blurred over the years.

Gina is a better role for her type...but perhaps Terri felt Shields shouldn't have been playing secondary roles (?)

I agree she could never have topped Pfeiffer's performance; but if that was the role that was offered to her, she didn't even try.

I like and respect her and Tatum O’Neal for hanging in there after their stardom, considering their bizarre non-childhoods.

Brooke was 17 when Scarface was filmed. Michelle was 25.

Brooke Shields has always seemed like a very nice person, who worked hard at her education and bettering herself. I think her mom kind of sank her, though. While she orchestrated her daughters early attention and success, she then became her manager, and in Shields' autobiography she says there was no emphasis at all on developing a long term career, or abilities. Jobs were accepted if they paid well and were shot in nice locations that fit into school vacations. That was the basic criteria.

Brooke worked with Scavullo a lot, and he shot most of her underage nudes for Pretty Baby

She had a very wholesome beauty and I think she is a very nice person. I think she emerged very sane from a lot of crazy shit.

Like Tatum O'Neal and Molly Ringwald, Brooke lost her charisma and charm by the 90s, and became stiff, awkward and humorless.

[quote]r35 Brooke worked with Scavullo a lot, and he shot most of her underage nudes for Pretty Baby

Yes. He was the first photographer to ever use her for a professional job. He was friends with her mom (who was a bit on an alcoholic, fag hag party gal.)

He then began to always request her for his jobs that needed a young girl, because he personally liked her on and off set.

She was all hype but in reality very dull. But as a preteen in the early 80's I thought she was great.

Her Calvin Klein commercials were a big topic of conversation. Surprising there aren't more responses about that.

Brooke getting ready for her Scarface audition

Saw her at Trader Joe's on 6th Avenue 2 weeks ago. Recognized her voice first. She's a freckled mess. I was surprised.

I enjoyed her (albeit brief) roles in Alice Sweet Alice & Midnight Meat Train.

You are ANIMALS!

[italic] Leave Brooke alone!

She did a decent job on NIP/TUCK.

It was an interesting role, though. Interesting roles make borderline performers seem more interesting, themselves.

She looks like a man

She had a noe job around the time she graduated from Princeton (when she was doing the Foxy commercials) that emphasized the squareness of her jaw and overal made her look more masculine.

Shame, she didn’t need one.

*nose

Serial beard and closeted bull-dyke

I don't think she's ever had a lesbian romance. She was asked about this in an ADVOCATE interview (after she played Cherry Jones' domestic partner in something), and she said something along the lines of how she hadn't, and yet she met women she was attracted to every day.

That's a big difference between straight men and straight women. Women can acknowledge that attraction exists on many levels (mental, physical, emotional) and that noting you're attracted to someone, some how, doesn't necessarily change your sexuality.

Was her mom really as awful as people say?

Her mom was a very lively and attractive woman who was self conscious about her working class roots in New Jersey. She had deep insecurities, but she had survival instincts. She was an alcoholic, and this clouds someone's emotions and behavior. She was very protective of her daughter and also other coworkers, but she didn't have very good creative instincts.

I think the mom might have been bi. It isn't really documented, but she was always with a close friend Brooke called "Aunt Lilah" (?)

As a teenager, Brooke was absolutely stunning to look at. But she was also probably the worst actress ever to appear on screen.

Thankfully, as she got older, she got some training and evolved in to a truly gifted comedic actress. I agree with R6 that her Rita Glossner character on The Middle was great.

A boss I used to work for knew Brooke when they were both at Princeton. He met Brooke's mom a few times, and he said her mom was always drunk when he saw her and that it was very embarrassing for Brooke whenever mom would come to visit.

He said he thought Brooke's college years were very sad because of her mom's alcoholism.

OMG R50...you are right, she did have a nose job and she has never looked the same. She has never photographed as well since then. I was a huge fan in the 80s, my first crush on a female. She is 2 years older than me. I had a photo album full of her pics from the magazines. Looking at the pictures in this thread, it's obvious she did the nose job in college. I heard that her grandmother-father's side- was an Italian princess. She has amazing family genes.

I don't think she had a nose job. Why would she need one? I think it is that people's noses are a feature that appear to change as one ages...as baby fat goes away, etc. and more of the structure is revealed. Plus, I think the nose does not continue to grow exactly the same way as the rest of the face does. It's something to do with it being made of cartiledge...not bone.

I don't know when she could have been out of sight long enough to get a nose job, without anyone noticing or commenting on it.

She was beautiful back then! I think she’s come out ahead, despite her fucked-up early life. Nothing bad to say about her.

Here’s the vintage gossip:

“Shields, Brooke. Very had to work for: "Nothing is ever good enough for Princess." Bi_____ [bisexual]. Bizarre and currently fractured relationship with her domineering mother. Claimed virginity long past anyone thought it likely or possible, especially those at Princeton who knew of her relationship with Dean Cain. Was paid by Michael Jackson and George Michael to act the beard for them. A harridan for a mother. Very friendly and polite in person. Also linked with Andre Agassi, Prince Albert of Monaco, Dodi al Fayeed, Woody Harrelson, John-John Kennedy, Julian Lennon, George Michael (beard duty), Liam Neeson, David Strickland, and John Travolta.”

I've always liked her, and that's about it. I realize she was beautiful when she was young--Elizabeth Taylor was in awe of her natural beauty--but she had the kind of beauty that doesn't draw you in, you just look at it. But yes, she seems to have comported herself well in a crazy profession and with a crazy mother, and I admire that.

One of the most beautiful girls ever. Handsome woman. Decent intelligent and a survivor. Much respect and deserves credit for being a decent person despite all she went through. In the realm of celebrities, she’s a saint.

I remember when she guest starred on Friends and was surprisingly funny. She really hadn't been in the spotlight for years prior, the Slimfast commercial was the last thing I remembered her doing. The Friends spot led directly to Suddenly Susan.

I wonder why naturally gifted comedic talents like Elle Macpherson and Jill Goodacre didn't star in their own network sitcoms after appearing on Friends.

What about her current husband? Anyone know anything about him?

Is he wealthy? Did she marry well?

Harry Connick would never have let Jill outshine him. He’s known to be controlling and verbally abusive towards Jill.

She really was funny as hell on Friends as Joey's crazy stalker. There's one bit where he says something and she moves her head back and cackles this unholy laugh for a few seconds, straightens up, and just goes "no, seriously..." and it makes me howl with laughter every time I see it.

She was pretty good in some of those Broadway shows, too. She has a tiny singing range, but if the score is in the lower range a la Wonderful Town, Chicago, Cabaret, etc. she can nail it.

[quote]She guest starred prominently in Law and Order SUV as a babysitter for Noah.

Oh, God -- now there's an L&O about CARS?

[quote]She guest starred prominently in Law and Order SUV as a babysitter for Noah.

^ Christopher Moltisanti

"There once was a young girl named Brooke, who had a face from a fairy-tale book..."

"The Brooke Shields Show" from SCTV, with Catherine O'Hara as Brooke and Rick Moranis as Teri.

I actually like Suddenly Susan, it was pretty much the public's first taste of Kathy Griffin. There were other cool characters too, but it's been so long, I can't remember them. After a cast member killed himself, season 4 was filmed just to increase the episode count enough for syndication, it was entirely laughless.

The husband is a nobody - cameraman or something. Not very good looking. Average Joe. Totally under her league. Agassi was a weird one too. So relationships must be weird for her. The oldest girl is a ginger but pretty. Will be interesting to see how they grow up. They live in a townhouse in West Village pretty discreetly.

The nose job in her early 20s ruined her face. Sad.

Stunning when young, but got too big as she aged...

Harry Connick Jr has had MUCH work done....

She's actually a very funny actress...I wish we'd see more of her on tv. She was also so great when I saw her on Broadway

The only memorable thing about "Suddenly Susan" was the unintentionally hilarious second season opening credits when the cast were for some insane reason made to look like menacing giants invading downtown San Francisco.

It is so amazing to me the show stayed on as long as it did given all the negatives it had.

The most beautiful girl in the world when she was shot by Avedon for Vogue, truly mesmerizing aaaand that's about it. She's evolved into the frau-Caitlyn with an equally stiff face and body.

r72 I thought her husband was a successful tv writer

"Suddenly Susan" had the ever-yummy Nestor Carbonell.

"Suddenly Susan" was no "Veronica's Closet."

r72 is an idiot. Her husband is Chris Henchy, writer, producer, etc. He co-created Funny or Die and has been involved with lots of TV shows.

The problem with Suddenly Susan is that it was originally written to capitalize on the "wacky" character type she played on Friends. The first season of the show had her as a slightly off, accident prone bubblehead.

Then when the producers realized audiences didn't want to tune in weekly to see a slightly insane character as the lead in a weekly show (did they learn nothing from The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd?), in the second season, they turned Susan into a level-headed working girl surrounded by kooks. At that point, the show was nothing special, and it was on a downward trajectory after that.

I am convinced she had a nose job. Nose and ears get bigger as we age. Her nose is unnaturally tiny for her face. Her profile was gorgeous as a teen...now her nose looks weird.

Look at her teen pictures, then look at pictures after college...

I used to think she was the coolest teenager when I was young. I’ve always had a soft spot for her because it felt like she didn’t have a great childhood but managed to have a happy adult life through learning from exposure to too much too young. She feels like someone who made it through chaos to the other side.

Brooke did NOT have any surgery on her nose or anything else done while she was in college. Her looks changed during that time because she gained 25 "protective" pounds(as she called them) and it made her look much more square and heavy in the jaw----making her appear more "handsome" than beautiful. There may have been some facial bone maturation going on in that period, too.

Wow, she just seems like an incredibly sweet and good person. I had an alcoholic parent and I am nowhere near as understanding or forgiving as Brooke. I was embarrassed for myself and she was protective of her mom. No doubt there's been lots of therapy but her kind heart shines through. She's still protecting others I suspect. Sweet kid, kind woman.

Atkins is still pretty hot. They should do "Reunited at the Blue Lagoon" and he could show more skin.

Martin Hewitt: endlessly hot Dad!

I've never read this article....the contents don't seem to be online.

I think it was from before she was pushed into acting by Mama Bear.

She has indeed a bit of a mannish/handsome look about her now. I wonder if she is taking HGH? Cindy Crawford has also developed a similar look. Large (not fat) and square.

[quote]r88 Wow, she just seems like an incredibly sweet and good person. I had an alcoholic parent and I am nowhere near as understanding or forgiving as Brooke. I was embarrassed for myself and she was protective of her mom. No doubt there's been lots of therapy but her kind heart shines through. She's still protecting others I suspect.

I read her book, and the dtnamic was, as she was growing up there was only her and her mom in a New York apartment. It's the teeniest bit like Grey Gardens, in that the mom doesn't seem to have really had friends...her whole life was Brooke, and booze. The relationship was very codependent. (The parents were only married for 6 months or something.)

Then when the daughter got jobs, Teri became her agent and manager and traveled with her to jobs and was on set all the time, so they became even more enmeshed. Brooke arranged the first intervention for her mom when she was 13. There was a strong love and kinship she felt for her mother, and it must have been hard having the public always harp on how terrible your controlling mom is while feeling a need to smile and chirp, "Oh, everything's FINE! She's a GREAT mom!"

But Teri was protective in good ways, too. For instance, on her daughter's second film, set in 1910, they used all authentic costumes. The film looks beautiful, but Brooke began to get a foot infection from some antique mold (or something) that was in her old shoes. The producers were saying "Oh, we need to keep shooting, we're on a schedule, it will be fine, here's some ointment" and Teri was like, "No. We're not coming back to work until she has NEW SHOES! Fuck your continuity problems, you're not infecting my child's FEET!"

I mean, it would be pretty cool if you were an unknown starlet and your mom took on Paramount Pictures for you. That's the OPPOSITE of sleeping with a producer for a part! The mom's like, "Go ahead, hate me. [italic]And get new fuckin' shoes."

The juciest gossip in the book is Susan Sarandon (who played her hooker mother, and must have been in some Method Acting mode) slapped Brooke HARD in one scene, and they had to do it several times. Brooke was shocked, but had an obedient work ethic and did a number of takes.

I think the producers had found somewhere else for Teri to be that day...or doubtless she would have ripped Sarandon's entire head off.

Sarandon should have been charged with assaulting a minor. What is the statute of limitations in Louisiana?

Brooke and Teri interview

Those Calvin ads- yikes. Before my time, though I knew the “what comes between me and my Calvins” line but not these other spots with the um, contortion poses. She was what- 13? 14?

[quote]must have been in some Method Acting mode)

Nah, SarandonE isn't method... she's just always hated other women.

Funny, I just realized she and Brooke both ended up playing love interests to Matt LeBlanc on Friends.

Sarandon was a very annoying actress until about 1992, when she became adequate.

It must have been a little awkward when they were immediately paired again as mother and daughter in KING OF THE GYPSIES (1978)

Shields wrote that Sarandon was very mercurial. Sometimes she was kind and chatty, other times she was very aloof.

Some facts about Brooke Shields:

She had an infamous, drunken stage mother who promoted her daughter as a sex symbol while she was still a little girl. Nude "artistic" photos were taken of a painted up, oiled up, 10 year old Brooke by a photographer with the unfortunate name of Gary Gross. When she got older she sued him to prevent further use of these pictures and tried unsuccessfully to buy back the negatives. After a lot of legal haranguing the court rejected all Brooke Shields’ claims and decided in Gross’s favour. The trial however, had ruined him financially and had tarnished his reputation. In addition, a change in attitudes towards the “politically correct” had sullied the photographs. They weren't considered "artistic" anymore, if they ever were. They were more like kiddy porn.

Her Calvin Klein commercials were also sexual in nature ("Do you know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing."). She was under 18 when she started doing the suggestive commercials.

She had initial success in the movies that showed her in a sexual manner (Pretty Baby, The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love). But when she aged out of her Lolita phase nobody was much interested anymore. And the fact that she was a lousy actress didn't help matters. She eventually got marginally better but she was never much better than average or mediocre.

She went to an Ivy League college to prove she had a brain. Her SATS were low but she was accepted at Princeton. She was given special treatment; she was allowed to graduate without having to take the requisite science and math courses.

Her beauty peaked very early and went downhill quickly. While still in her twenties she began to look like a tranny. And as she got older she looked more and more like one. Now she looks a lot like one.

Sarandon was funny in "Rocky Horror" (1975) and her singing is cute. Also pretty good in "Atlantic City" (1981). "Bull Durham" (1988) was the start of a solid run of good scripts and performances that lasted for almost a decade.

[quote]Her SATS were low but she was accepted at Princeton. She was given special treatment;

And where did you get this nugget?

Just a wholesome American commercial with a camera slowly scanning an underage girl's body and referring to her lack of underwear.

"And where did you get this nugget?"

From someone who worked at Princeton, sweetheart.

Brooke must have her own harassment stories shooting Pretty Baby as a minor, and her sexually-charged Calvin Klein commercial shoots.

Brooke Shields did look her best as a teen...like we ALL did.

She's over 50 now and has had a couple of kids. She will always be a stunning woman, though.

[quote]From someone who worked at Princeton, sweetheart.

More like TMZ, sweetheart.

This thread appears to be littered by a cookie clearer wearing shitty shoes.

Your TWAT'S a cookie clearer!

(Or, something...)

R108, you don't know shit about your precious Brookie. This is from an article about her in Princeton magazine about the time she graduated from Princeton:

What’s not to like about Brooke? Well, there are her ego problems. Those who know her say she made a concerted effort to fit in, but she never really made close friends. “It’s hard to penetrate the mask,” says senior Peter Maruka, who dated Shields for three months this year. “Brooke and her image are inseparably intertwined. You can’t forget she’s an actress.”

Then there’s her ubiquitous mother, Teri Shields. Mom’s constant presence at rehearsals for student theatricals, says senior Peter Sachner, got to be annoying. “During production week, which is very tense, no one is allowed to see a preview. But Teri was there, front and center. It seemed condoned and no one who was bothered by it dared ask why.”

Then there’s the suspicion that Brooke was getting special treatment. For example, she was allowed to write her thesis on the treatment of children in the films of Louis Malle—including her own infamous Pretty Baby, in which she played a 12-year-old prostitute. Not the toughest research assignment.

[quote]you don't know shit about your precious Brookie

You sound unhinged.

Someone's on break from cleaning rooms.

[quote]She guest starred prominently in Law and Order SUV as a babysitter for Noah.

Not a babysitter! She played Noah’s GRANDMOTHER!

I've always rooted for her. I don't think she was a terribly good actress as a teen, but she matured and got better as time passed. It's great that she's still learning and getting better. Admirable, really. So many people settle and quit caring about staying curious. Plus, she's always come across as very approachable and normal. She seems like she'd be fun to have a drink with.

George Clooney apparently loves her.

[quote]r108 you don't know shit about your precious Brookie

Look, mister: Probably the worst thing Brooke Shields ever did was fail to make her bed one morning...and I doubt even THAT happened. The girl wouldn't hurt a mouse.

This is probably because she got invested in appearing perfect from a very early age, overcompensating for her emotionally messy mother.

You can just...SHOVE IT, you meanie monster.

She probably has a jaw clenching habit tic causing hypertrophy of her jaw muscles. Most actors would just get botox to the jaw to slim it down but she does not seem to be getting any work done.

"You sound unhinged."

You sound in love with Brooke Shields. Boy, are YOU fucked up.

"Probably the worst thing Brooke Shields ever did was fail to make her bed one morning...and I doubt even THAT happened. The girl wouldn't hurt a mouse."

You are obviously insane. I'm very sorry you're so mentally disturbed. Your life must be so hard.

Her stand-in on The Middle said she was very nice and Brooke remembered her from another set.

R119 you obviously don't know how to check people's history.

But apparently Brooke shat all over your dinner.

[quote] You sound in love with Brooke Shields. Boy, are YOU fucked up.

That wasn't directed at me...but come on, Brooke Shields is unfailingly polite and sweet. There are so many fucked up people in Hollywood, why not love her?

We Proud Brookelites have stood by her though the decades, even though she's not a terribly gifted performer.

Do you think its EASY being in love with the slightly geeky Shields?? It's the love that dare not speak its name....

I think she shat all over her SHOES!

All attractive people have to deal with the inevitable loss of beauty that aging brings, but I can't imagine having been as unbelievably beautiful as Brooke was, and then seeing yourself become a man in appearance as you age. It must be hell.

I like her bitchy character in the movie 'Freeway' with Reese Witherspoon where she plays Kiefer Sutherland's wife.

It doesnt seem like she cares too much about her mannish face— she doesnt look botoxed or fillered up or face lifted.

[quote]Brooke Shields did look her best as a teen...like we ALL did.

Most people's LOOKS do not peak in their teens. What a stupid assertions and factual lie. The majority of men and women reach the apex of physical attractiveness between the ages of 28 and 35. Obviously there are exceptions, but that is the norm. Brooke was still very beautiful when she sat in the stands, cheering for Agassi. That's when I first became aware of who she was. She was probably about 30 and she looked like a gorgeous Italian movie star. She is a bit mannish now but it she got rid of the long flat hair it would help soften her angular face. She looked great on Wendy Williams not that long ago.

The business about Brooke being exempted from classes at Princeton is bullshit. I was at Princeton as a graduate student when she was there. She got very good grades (they published them her senior year in LIFE Magazine)

I went to high school with guys and girls who were at their physical peak then, and went downhill in their twenties.

[quote] [R108] you don't know shit about your precious Brookie

Excuse me, but are you for some reason planning to have her little dog drowned in the moat by one of your winged monkeys?

R130. For a lot of them, their looks faded in college

R77 My ex-boyfriend used to live in the big white apartment building across the street from where giant Brooke is standing in those opening credits. We used to watch the show every week just to point at the TV and say, "That's where we are right now!"

Fuck him now.

[quote]r125 All attractive people have to deal with the inevitable loss of beauty that aging brings, but I can't imagine having been as unbelievably beautiful as Brooke was, and then seeing yourself become a man in appearance as you age. It must be hell.

She has chosen not to get plastic surgery so far. I think that's admirable. She tried botox once and didn't like the effect. She's had laser treatments to buff out fine lines...but I like that she hasn't desperatly run to any surgeon available to preserve youthful perfection.

It's kind of a revenge on only being treated as [italic]The Face of the 80s[/italic] all her life.

She looks super botoxed yo me -- forehead and eyes. She also had her tits done.

If she is super botoxed, what is Nicole Kidman then

"you obviously don't know how to check people's history."

I suppose YOU know her "history" like the back of your hand. You're just a deranged fans. There seem to be a lot of deranged Brooke Shields fans on this thread.

"The business about Brooke being exempted from classes at Princeton is bullshit. I was at Princeton as a graduate student when she was there. She got very good grades."

How would YOU know what her grades were? You're full of shit. And here is exactly what Brooke Shield's "education" at Princeton consisted of. And as the last paragraph clearly states she didn't take ANY hard science courses, no math, not even "computer literacy. Read it and weep, hon:

Brooke Shields majored in French. In four years, she took 116 credits (hours) and got an additional 16 hours of credit for individual work in her junior and senior years. To put it another way, she took 30 one-semester courses.

She took four courses in French language and five in French literature. She took eight courses in drama-related subjects: three in acting, three in cinema analysis, one in dance, one in contemporary English drama. These accounted for 59 percent of her classroom hours.

She took three semesters of ceramics (10 percent).

She took three courses in psychology - introduction to, abnormal and 'Theories of Psychotherapy' (10 percent).

She had two other English courses - 'Women and the Novel' and 'Victorian Children's Literature' (7 percent).

The other courses, one semester each, were 'Philosophy and the Modern Mind,' 'Comparative Family Systems' (sociology), 'The Self in World Religions' and 'History of Earth and Life' (geology). That education apparently contained no courses in classical studies (history, philosophy, literature of the ancient world), medieval history, modern history or American history; no hard science (physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy) requiring any kind of lab; no math; no anthropology; no economics; no political science or government; no basic sociology; no world literature; no American literature; no geography; not even computer literacy.

Thanks for proving the point, R137.

R137 cannot be that stupid.

[quote]I suppose YOU know her "history" like the back of your hand. You're just a deranged fans.

Apparently the deranged, "Brooke Shat on my Shoes Hater," knows Brooke's full history... supposedly down to the courses she took. How bizarre.

[quote]r135 She looks super botoxed yo me -- forehead and eyes. She also had her tits done.

I've only seen one picture of Shields where she had actual boobs, and that must have been when she was pregnant, or nursing. She hasn't had a boob job. She has a very modest bustline...and she probably only has THAT because she had kids.

Model Jeri Hall said she had no chest to speak of until she had children, too.

R140 cannot be that in love with Brooke Shields. No one can be THAT crazy, can they? CAN they?

lol @ R143.

"Apparently the deranged, "Brooke Shat on my Shoes Hater," knows Brooke's full history... supposedly down to the courses she took. How bizarre."

Actually, it's the deranged Brooke Shields fangurls who think they know her full history. How bizarre. And pathetic.

r135 If she had a boob job, they used about 35 cents worth of silicone.

You are a lying DEMON!

Yes totally deranged! It only makes sense that you'd know the details of her course work if you hate her!

Fun fact, she’s descended from Italian princely houses via her paternal grandmother, who was an Italian princess (not from a royal house). Her grandmother’s brother married a Spanish princess who was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She’s even got a Pope in her family tree.

r65, I used to work with her 2nd and current husband. He was not famous and is a writer. Wrote for her show Suddenly Susan, I think.

[quote]r148 Fun fact, she’s descended from Italian princely houses via her paternal grandmother, who was an Italian princess (not from a royal house). Her grandmother’s brother married a Spanish princess who was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She’s even got a Pope in her family tree.

That program glossed over some of the more interesting characters in her family tree. That part of her lineage is really very distinguished.

" It only makes sense that you'd know the details of her course work if you hate her!"

That's pretty insane logic. Actually that information comes from a New York Times article, so it's public knowledge anyone could have seen, dummy.

And you were compelled to look it up, dummy.

Speaking of insane.

I can't believe how someone could go apeshit over Brooke Shields. Shat over her shoes. Really?

[quote]I can't believe how someone could go apeshit over Brooke Shields.

Yeah, that George Clooney has no taste.

"And you were compelled to look it up, dummy."

To prove a point, you silly twat.

Uh huh, that was the reason.

And again, please learn to figure out which person you're speaking to.

I thought she was amazingly beautiful. She seems like a nice, decent person. I know her eyebrows were her signature, but I think she'd look better if she plucked them and created more space above her eyes.

r103, Brooke's mother revealed her SAT scores in a People Magazine article at the time Brooke entered Princeton.

"Her mother, Teri, claims that Brooke’s SATs were 610 verbal, 610 mathematical—not far below the class averages of 649 and 695 and well ahead of some hockey players."

So her SATs weren't horrible, but low enough that her mother felt the need to defend her by comparing her scores to those of recruited athletes, which tend to be significantly lower than the student body average.

[quote]Yeah, that George Clooney has no taste.

I have no idea what you're talking about, but I was referring to whoever is on a mission to tear her down. She seems one of the few genuinely nice celebrities.

R161 I'm pretty sure it's a jab at the person you're referring to.

Good actress, bad actress, doesn't matter. Brooke is an icon to those of us of a certain age.

[quote]r151 That program glossed over some of the more interesting characters in her family tree. That part of her lineage is really very distinguished.

They do go over some of her father's family....telling Shields one of her ancestors on that side was born in the Louvre (when it was still a palace) and that through her she's a direct descendent of Charles IV of France, and Charlemagne (Charles the Great.)

"Brooke is an icon to those of us of a certain age."

Speak for yourself, hon. And how old are you, anyway? Seventy?

She also has a connection to a Spanish queen consort via her descent from the ancient princely Farnese family. Interesting stuff.

Maybe we should move on to Brooke Adams: she didn't go to Princeton, but I believe her shoes were always spotless.

I’m pretty sure she said in her autobio - which I have somewhere - that she got just over 1000 or 1100 on her SATs.

Doesn’t mean she didn’t work hard once she was at Princeton, but yeah by no means would she have normally gotten in.

Princeton is the toughest Ivy to graduate from, in any event, not least because of the senior thesis and JPs.

R70 Here's Brooke on the Farm Film Report!

"But...it said black tie."

She bearded for Michael Jackson for years. The tabloids reported their "torrid" affair. She was the one who pursued him. In LaToya Jackson's memoir she recounted how she kept pestering Michael to take her to the Grammys. He was one of the most popular entertainers in the world at that time and I guess she wasn't the publicity she was sure would come from being Michael's "girl." He asked LaToya to tell her to lay off but she told him it was his problem, deal with it. Milquetoast Michael caved in and took her as his date...along with Emmanuel Lewis. They looked ridiculous. Realizing they were laughingstocks, Brooke exclaimed "they're making fun of us!" It occured to Michael that it might be a good thing for him to have a "girlfriend", so they were the odd couple for quite a while. Eventually she distanced herself from him after the child molestation accusations started to heat up. She hadn't had anything to do with him for years, but when he died she popped up at his televised memorial service to speak of her "dear friend."

She is not a good enough actress to fake emotion for him she did not feel.

Whatever their relationship was, she must have held a special place for him as a friend...whether it was only as teens, or not.

I agree with [R6] that her Rita Glossner character on The Middle was great.

No it wasn't = it was a broad caricature worthy of an SNL skit. I never liked her or whoever did her p.r. She seemed snotty and traded on the sex stuff as a minor. Saw her on 8th Ave. hailing a cab after her Chicago stint - she looked and moved like a man, baby.

[quote]r173 Saw her on 8th Ave. hailing a cab after her Chicago stint - she looked and moved like a man, baby.

If that were true...would that be so terrible?

With Debbie Harry

With Melanie Griffith: nothing beats two great pairs of legs!

She had many stunning covers, but I think this might be my favorite.

So pretty.

“George put up the partition, and turned to me. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have my first time with George Michael in the back of a limo.’ I gazed at George, and puckered my lips. He looked deep into my eyes. and said, "I think we need to take a break. I need to concentrate on my career.”

^^ who says she's had it all simply handed to her ? ?

Brooke was on the Merv Griffin Show in 1980. She was 14 or 15 and she looked just stunning. Looked 24 or 25. Unreal. I think Blue Lagoon had come out recently. I’d post the clip but cannot...

"Well...it's slimming."

[quote]Brooke was on the Merv Griffin Show in 1980. She was 14 or 15 and she looked just stunning. Looked 24 or 25. Unreal. I think Blue Lagoon had come out recently. I’d post the clip but cannot...

Sonofabitch---do I have to EVERYTHING for you?!

When Brooke said, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvin's" She meant she wasn't wearing panties.

Slut!!!

R182 I can't believe Merv kept a straight face when he said "The critically acclaimed 'Blue Lagoon.'"

Yes, thank you for posting that R182...

[quote]She guest starred prominently in Law and Order SUV as a babysitter for Noah.

Actually Brooke played Noah's biological grandmother who had him kidnapped while he was out shopping with his nanny! IIRC, at first she fought for custody of Noah, then Olivia Benson settled on Brooke's character visiting Noah.

The kidnapping does seem to close the door for future appearances by Brooke. I don't understand why they did this, they could have had a story line filled with tension about Brooke's character trying to gain custody because she was, if I remember correctly, the only living close biological relative.

I think it shows her basic, down to earth character.. for a gorgeous beauty not get wrapped up in the plastic surgery, cosmetic treatment trap, that so many of her lesser beautiful peers fall into. She seems very grounded. It's admirable, really.

R130... Some people, who looked geeky and awkward in their youth, and into early middle age, are lucky to grow into their attractiveness... with the silvered hair, face filling out in a good way... along with the character of some wrinkles. They are in the minority, though

I don't think Brooke likes the sexy sex part of sex. She's never once been sexy, she just did what she was told when she was young. She rubbed her legs together and licked her lips in some jeans. Some people just don't have a sexual vibe. So she happily bearded for a lot of guys and loved them platonically, then married a another nonsexy sexy athlete and later the frumpy husband to breed with. She cried a lot after having children and felt like Marie Osmond, aka she wanted to kill herself and her children and got an Oprah appearance out of it. So Menopause hits women like this hard. There's just not enough love juice and endolphins inside them. Now she's a man.

Loved her and Martin Hewitt in Endless Love. Well more of lust for the latter. I always thought she never felt to make a big deal about her looks and even humble about it. It made sense she didn't resort to heavy plastic surgery as she got older like everyone else in Hollywood.

I don't think anyone has "endolphins"!

It's endorphins.

Gosh you're dumb R191.

[quote]Gosh you're dumb [R191].

If you mean I'm not a clueless millennial or a braindead hipster, then, you're correct.

Fuck off, asshole.

R193 he was quoting from a movie that I guess everyone here is required to get.

R193 is insane. Don't engage it.

How was Brooke Shields in the ill fated series Lipstick Jungle?

[quote][R193] he was quoting from a movie that I guess everyone here is required to get.

Not everyone here is into every aspect of pop culture. There are not enough hours in the day to keep up with everything.

It's amazing how DL now seems to be overrun with unhinged, cruel and incredibly nasty gay men. DL used to be fun and a bit snarky, not filled with vicious individuals who want to feel superior to other posters. In pretty much every DL thread, there are people who thrive on starting arguments, name call for no reason and enjoy being cruel.

I'm figuring they are basically sociopaths or escaped mental patients.

the brilliant Catherine O'Hara's parodies of Brooke are hilarious. I love it when she performs "Whip It" - oh and the endolphins line is Annette Bening in "Postcards from the Edge" the film version of Carrie Fisher's book.

R197 I personally don’t gaf if this person hasn’t seen Postcards from the Edge (not a great movie anyway) - I was just explaining the “wrath and utter outrage.”

[quote]Menopause hits women like this hard. There's just not enough love juice and endolphins inside them. Now she's a man.

Must have been an apprentice in Dr. Mengele's Auschwitz lab.

[quote] In pretty much every DL thread, there are people who thrive on starting arguments, name call for no reason and enjoy being cruel. I'm figuring they are basically sociopaths or escaped mental patients.

So true. And they are impossible to get rid of once they leech onto you.

It is interesting that Brooke - one of the great beauties of the 80s - hasn't seemed to have had any awful face work done at this point. I always got the feeling that she wished she'd been known for more than just being a pretty face and that's why she still works so hard on acting and takes risks with her projects. It really is admirable.

To her, beauty was just something she was born with and she didn't have to work hard at it. She was smart enough to realize that she wouldn't look like that forever and got a warm, funny personality and developed her acting skills. Smart girl. I think all pretty flavors of the week should take notes.

I think Brooke learned early on that people's reactions to her looks were their own issues (as evident by some people in this thread). She doesn't seem to place a whole lot of value on it herself... as evident by her brows.

[quote]r184 I can't believe Merv kept a straight face when he said "The critically acclaimed 'Blue Lagoon.'"

God damn you! THE BLUE LAGOON was the WAR & PEACE of its day!

Stop trying to rewrite history.

[quote]I don't think anyone has "endolphins"!

[quote]It's endorphins.

Whatever.

Merv Griffin was an ass kisser to end all ass kissers. "The Blue Lagoon" was not critically acclaimed, it was panned. He said this to Lucille Ball: "You how word goes around this town fast...word is around that your "Mame" may be one of the best musicals ever produced." He actually SAID that.

[quote]They do go over some of her father's family....telling Shields one of her ancestors on that side was born in the Louvre (when it was still a palace) and that through her she's a direct descendent of Charles IV of France, and Charlemagne (Charles the Great.)

The ancestor born in the Palais de Louvre was Christine Marie of France, daughter of King Henry IV of France and the Austro-Italian Marie de' Medici. Christine Marie married Victor Amadeus I, the Duke of Savoy, and as regent of the Duchy of Savoy, Madama Reale, as she was known, elevated the court at Turin to rival that of her sister's, Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Dukes of Savoy eventually became the Kings of Sardinia and later the Kings of Italy. So, just through her, Brooke has family ties to the courts of France, Italy, Austria, and Spain.

And through her first marriage came illustrious ties to the storied tennis courts of the Grand Slam.

Some of her looks can seemingly be traced back to her grandfather Frank Shields. He was a famous tennis star and ladies man, who was so goodlooking he was put under contract in Hollywood for a few years, and made some movies

He's the one that married the princess, infusing royalty into the bloodline.

Frank Shields in Hollywood, 1930s.

Matinee idol looks

Frank was way better looking than Brooke. She has a Frankenstein quality to her brow and jaw bones and that thick neck in old age. So many older gays are here projecting their lost looks onto her own.

And the old queen obsessed with her lineage can go back to those jerk off Matt Damon was emperor of France threads. Bottom line is Shields is extremely lucky to be RICH. Because she is talent free and has not much personality either. A nice mannish married rich lady with too good manners. Most old fags on here would call her a frau if they hadn't grown up wanting to be her.

Frank has a very beautiful profile, but full-face he loses something.

Kathy Ireland seemed to take bushy eyebrow inspiration from Brooke

[quote] Her Calvin Klein commercials were a big topic of conversation. Surprising there aren't more responses about that.

Because, R40, it was 40 fucking years ago. Let it go.

R216. And yet here you are

R217. And yet you can't provide context in your response. You sound like a little retarded girl in adult diapers.

R218 a retarded girl in adult diapers. Fascinating context.

Brooke aged quickly and badly, but in her brief prime she was flawless and truly breathtaking. No one else could compare.

You're drunk, not to mention dead, Teri. But on your first point, we agree.

[italic]Now go home and get yer fuckin' shine box...

^^ Sorry, I meant your SECOND point.

(Now I sound as drunk as Teri) (who of course poisons everything) (while also being a horder)

G-DAMN THAT WOMAN!

She's had a remarkable career for someone who should have been flavor of the month. Must be a dream to work with. She did slowly become a better actress but it took decades.

[quote]r223 She did slowly become a better actress but it took decades.

I think the thing that helped her is she did not give up. I mean basically, between ENDLESS LOVE and her guest spot on FRIENDS, she barely had a truly respectable credit in TV and film. She did lame TV movies you can't remember the names of, straight-to-video movies like BACKSTREET DREAMS....some bits in Muppet movie crap.

She did do smaller parts in some independent films that I guess nudged her toward acting more naturally. AND I SAY ALL THAT AS SOMEONE WHO LIKES HER. But really, that mid-career era of hers is very spotty. But at least she kept working until something better came along. And took Broadway replacement roles to give her more experience actually [italic]acting. (And she took any commercial endorsement offer that came along to keep some money coming in.)

R92 Crawford is a closeted lesbian she bearded for Richard Gere and Clooney's hubby Rande Garber

I was actually looking forward to Brenda Starr. When will that be released?

R197.. LOL

Agreed R202.. good comment.

Gary Morton is in "Postcards from the Edge" because Lucy wasn't around to talk him out of it.

She’s really good friends with Helena Christensen. Who knew?

From a David Letterman top 10 list of "Titles of Papers Written by Brooke Shields at Princeton"

"Some Pretty Leaves I Found Outside Somewhere"

"Lather, Rinse, Repeat:A Chemical Process in Three Stages"

"Girls With Thin Eyebrows: Hideous Freaks of Nature? "

Now these could be used (more accurately) for the Kardashians. "Girls With Small Asses:Hideous Freaks of Nature?" L

" Smart girl."

The girl is definitely NOT "smart." She did learn how to play the game, however, no doubt from having lessons from her shrewd, media-savvy, albeit drunken, Mommy Dearest. But smart? An infamous quote of hers has always made "Dumb Celebrity Quotes" lists. Chosen as a spokesperson for an anti-smoking campaign she said “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

If you're dead you can no longer enjoy smoking. I date Michael Jackson.

She’s anti-abortion

She's pretty but not an interesting model or personality.

r234 The article says she almost WAS an abortion...not that she's anti-abortion.

R234 Brooke has spoken out about being pro choice. She's been quite clear in saying it's something she could never do, but that she would never take that choice away from another woman.

Underage and Lovin It

She got the Suddenly Susan role after she guest starred on Friends as Joeys stalker. She was good. There's very few beautiful actresses who are comedic. She was fab in The Middle and i wanted to see more. She always appears humble and empathetic on screen..she'd be great in a cop show as an Olivia Benson type. Give her a cop show now....the underage nudity was wrong wrong wrong though..and she deserves a better career having paid her dues. Plus she's done Chicago on Broadway.. u Have to have talent to do that.

The next EGOT winner?

She will play Mary Tyrone on Broadway, with Christopher Atkins as James.

"Plus she's done Chicago on Broadway.. u Have to have talent to do that."

Not really. She played Rizzo, didn't she? Anybody can play that role without much trouble. I think even talentless Linda Blair did a stint as Rizzo, and Blair can't act or sing.

Pardon me, I was thinking of "Grease", which Shields was in for a time. But I don't remember her ever being in "Chicago."

Yes, she played Roxie in Chicago. It's not a tough sing. Christie Brinkley played the role, too. Let's not get too excited.

Brooke was great in Wonderful Town, though. She does have talent and a natural musical comedy flair.

"Yes, she played Roxie in Chicago. It's not a tough sing."

She must have been mediocre, because she's no singer or dancer. Catherine O'Hara did a very funny impression of Brooke Shields "singing" and "dancing" that was right on the money.

Somehow she avoided all the minefields Lindsay Lohan hit.

I apologize if someone already posted this...it's from Kathy Griffin's best (IMO) special, "Allegedly." She's talking about Brooke's wedding and "the two Teris"...Teri Big House (at whose house the wedding is being held) and Teri Shields, Brooke's mom--who was certifiably unhinged, esp when drunk.

Poor Brooke. I’m surprised she kept that lush around.

Why have we been deprived of the Brenda Starr movie?

My mother met her in High School. My mother attended a party (lived on Long Island) that was thrown by a friend who knew an actress (actress was in a movie called less than zero. Cant remember name of actress, not big). Actress showed up with Brooke Shields. The actress was a snob, and she and Brooke sat near my mother outside. The snob ignored my mother, and Brooke could see that the snob was just too bitchy. Brooke got up, and sat near my mother and struck up a conversation, and they had a really good time. To this day, my mother cannot say enough about how absolutely GREAT Brooke was..and this was the height of her fame, in the 80s. So, I love her too!!!

Deep as a birdbath

[quote]R250 My mother attended a party that was thrown by a friend who knew an actress (actress was in a movie called less than zero. Cant remember name of actress, not big). Actress showed up with Brooke Shields. The actress was a snob, and she and Brooke sat near my mother outside. The snob ignored my mother, and Brooke could see that the snob was too bitchy.

I wonder if this actress was Lisanne Falk. She was also in HEATHERS, and knew Shields from their childhood modeling days.

I think Lisanne was also in Say Anything so I’ll forgive her for being a snob. Although I would have asked her what her damage was...

Friend interviewed Brooke back in the early 90s and she always listed her as the smartest and loveliest celebrity she ever met.

Falk had a book written about her at age 14.

Perhaps it gave her pretentions.

Falk is on the cover of Foreigner’s album HEAD GAMES.

In retrospect, it’s rather creepy they chose someone so young.

She never had a Burning Bed acting moment

Brooke is under appreciated as a comedic actor. Not just for Suddenly Susan, but also for That 70s Show and others.

I do think she has a nice flair for comedy. I also loved her in an episode of Tales From the Crypt with Perry King. I think she talked about how the crew of that show told her that she was the best screamer they'd heard on that series and I think her appearance was on one of the later seasons.

Screaming starts at 23:20. The crew was right. She does have a great scream and is pretty believable here. I've always thought the two hardest genres to play are horror and comedy, because you have to give so much energy to pretend that some the dumb things you're asking to do are real.

Like Bonnie Hunt, the networks finally stopped force feeding lame vanity project knock-offs starring her.

She was just in the new Murphy Brown.

She looked great on Murphy Brown.

On November 19, 1980, CBS banned a controversial Brooke Shields Calvin Klein Jeans ad because, according to CBS, the commercial was ‘too suggestive.’ The ad featured the 15-year-old Shields saying: ‘You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.’

Brooke Shields is NOT "smart." She is career savvy, though. Her bearding for Michael Jackson was great evidence of that. She got loads of publicity for being Michael's "girlfriend."

Brooke answers questions with Marlo.

RR264 She did well at Princeton.

As WW during her Princeton days.

"She did well at Princeton."

She was given a very soft course load at Princeton. That's been discussed before. And you can be dumb as a brick and still graduate from an Ivy League school, if you have the money and connections. George Bush graduated from both Yale and Harvard.

With this profile, you don't need grades.

She is not stupid.

She's doesn't strike me as being very bright. Having been an model from the time she was an infant and a celebrity since age 12 she does know how to handle herself in interviews and how to cultivate her image. i always thought her bearding for Michael Jackson reprehensible. She did it for the publicity, no doubt. She was his "girlfriend" for years but as he became more and more bizarre and the sexual abuse accusations started to heat up she distanced herself from him. When asked about him she would previously say "I love him dearly" but clammed up after he got into serious trouble for his sleepovers with 13 year old boys. After his death she popped up to speak at his memorial service, even though they had had nothing to do with each other for many years. Her behavior has always been very calculated.

Calculated behavior suggests she is not stupid.

I think she presented a front for a long time.

This entire thread sounds more like someone is having a conversation with themselves...

R268 Princeton is much harder than either Harvard or Yale once you get there. Have to write a thesis your senior year and two mini theses your junior year, for one thing.

She was basically an beautiful model with very limited acting talent which has improved over time, as you would expect it would. It's amazing how she's had a career for as long as she has. Much prettier and more talented woman have fallen off the radar. She has some good management.

"Princeton is much harder than either Harvard or Yale once you get there."

Really? Assuming that's true, that doesn't change the fact that she was given special treatment while she was there. And her course load reveals she DID get special treatment. She had it easy there., no doubt due to her celebrity.

And you can be "calculated" without being intelligent. I'd say she's good at being a celebrity, knows how to "play the game", but has never indicated that she has much intellect.

Plus, her senior thesis was on the work of Louis Malle, who directed her in Pretty Baby. Scholarly research indeed.

It’s still scholarly research.

R277 if it was well done (which I don’t know if it is or not) there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s a very legitimate topic to write on - it’s not like she wrote about the themes of films by Michael Bay.

Heck, Harvard has a class on The Blonde Salad (a famous blogger).

She's the epitome of wife material.

Suddenly Susan

r279, I have no doubt that it can be a legitimate topic, but given that she worked with him, it comes across as lazy and self-indulgent. A thesis isn't supposed to be a memoire.

She worked with him on one movie a decade before her thesis. It is a very different thing.

College is about expanding your horizons. Apparently she couldn't.

I think she wanted to go to college just for the "experience." She sure didn't go to get an education, not with those courses. I'm surprised she didn't take a class in basket weaving. And I think the whole "Brooke Shields goes to college" thing was another attempt to cultivate her image, which was "hey, I've been promoted as a sex symbol since I was 10 years old but I'm just a normal kid like everybody else!" Despite the nude photos at age ten and the Calvin Klein commercials and the sexual movie roles she has always tried to portray her self as "wholesome", even to this day.

Sometimes a celebrity will go back to school for a specific vocation, and even follow that into a different career. Brooke seem like she was just "going to Princeton" as something to add to her bio, with a lot of typical Doris Day co-ed photo ops.

She took normal college classes.

She'd been whored out as a nude model from the age of 8 months old (for an Ivory soap ad), so she looked forward to 4 semi-normal years spent in college.

She'd certainly made enough money to spend it however she wanted.

"She took normal college classes."

Her course load contained no courses in classical studies (history, philosophy, literature of the ancient world), medieval history, modern history or American history; no hard science (physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy) requiring any kind of lab; no math; no anthropology; no economics; no political science or government; no basic sociology; no world literature; no American literature; no geography; not even computer literacy. That's a pretty damned soft curriculum. No math? No science? She had it very easy.

Why do you know so much about this, R289? Let it go... Seriously, if you don't like her that's fine, but you're coming across as pathological

r290, Life Magazine published Brooke's entire transcript from Princeton. r289's text was taken, word for word, from a New York Times editorial criticizing the lack of breadth in Brooke's education.

With Mariel Hemingway

Mariel did herself no favors by posing alongside Brooke, in comparison with Brooke's divine features she looks like a coarse german peasant,

r293, that's saying a lot, since Brooke looks like a horse in that pic!

Her younger daughter is beginning to look like her.

It must suck to be the older one, who doesn't so much.

I shouldn't have said that. The older one is clearly very lovely, too....she just looks more like a young Lindsay Lohan than Brooke Shields.

It’s interesting R296 R295 , I’ve seen the one in R295 (older one) and she totally gives off a Lohan vibe - including a certain rebellious, “I will be a mess and a misery for my mother for the next 15 years” attitude. Will be interesting to see how she turns out.

Her daughters are ordinary looking. Brooke Shield's looks were always kind of freakish. Even as an infant she had well-defined, mature features. There was a photo of her (maybe taken by Scavullo) where she's a little girl and she's topless; a critic noted the stark contrast between "the child's body and the woman's face." At any rate, her looks peaked early and then quickly went downhill; she went from being this supposedly stunning, magnificent beauty to looking like a tranny. She really ended up looking transgendered.

Brooke claims her territory

Heavenly creature

Nice tan

The nose job emphasised the masculinity of her square jaw.

See also, Natalie Portman.

The 1970s were weird.

[quote]r298 There was a photo of her (maybe taken by Scavullo) where she's a little girl and she's topless; a critic noted the stark contrast between "the child's body and the woman's face."

Maybe they meant this series, for Scavullo's first book?

[quote]she went from being this supposedly stunning, magnificent beauty to looking like a tranny. She really ended up looking transgendered.

What would be wrong with that?

She was so gorgeous up to her mid 30s before she got older with a Chewbacca frame and hardened Botox look.

She's funny.

[quietly)[italic]"That's so...original. To be with me, and make a reference to...Calvin Klein jeans."

She seems like a smart, decent broad.

Jodie Foster and the young Sharon Stone were both close to being cast in [italic]Endless Love.[/italic] Either would have acted the role better, but you can also imagine director Franco Zeffirelli meeting Shields and hoping, "OH! This COULD work!"

She was at the height of her beauty in Endless Love.

That's why the new Endless Love didn't work. Jade needs to be a transcendent beauty for us to understand David's motivation and obsessive olove, yet they cast some generic blondie with fried hair. With Brooke, the audience got why David would do the things he did.

Remember when Christy Brinkley's daughter Alexis, who looks like Billy Joel, tried to kill herself?

I hope that Brooke has taught these girls that there's more to self-worth than just your appearance. But if not--watch out. I, for one, would NOT want my appearance to be compared to that of Brooke Fucking Shields every single day of my life by the entire world.

Brooke is a freak of nature, that order of beauty isn't seen very often.

I am the same age as Brooke. I remember sneaking into a bookstore to check out the "My Virginity" chapter of her "book". I was so naive I actually believed it. College would have been a lot more fun if Brooke had just kept her mouth shut.

[quote]r313 Brooke is a freak of nature. That order of beauty isn't seen very often.

I had a crush on her when I was little, even though I was gay.

I even told my mom I'd like to marry Brooke, and she said, "But what would you [italic]talk[/italic] about?"

I was just scrolling through this thread, minding my own business, and there it was....ENDOLPHINS. I hurt myself laughing. I think we need to make endolphins the official mascot of the DL.

The uneven eyebrwos are that little touch of imperfection that adds to her beauty, otherwise she would look too perfect and uninteresting

With Kristy McNichol, Leif Garrett and Peter Fonda

The most beautiful teenager since Elizabeth Taylor. The last great cinema beauty. Not as pretty now. Met her in NYC when she was in Cabaret. She was very nice. Saw her in Cabaret and Grease and a concert for Classic Stage Company.

The most beautiful teenager since Elizabeth Taylor. The last great cinema beauty. Not as pretty now. Met her in NYC when she was in Cabaret. She was very nice. Saw her in Cabaret and Grease and a concert for Classic Stage Company.

I know they're her trademark, but she should tweeze off about 2 millimeters of hair on the underside of her eyebrows. She could still have full eyebrows. It would just open up some space between her eyebrows and her eyes.

She was a big boney person at Princeton and once almost knocked into me on the quad.

I think the Botox accounts for her squinty look. It seems to compress the brow area somehow and makes the eyes look smaller. Nicole Kidman has a similar squinting thing going on.

She's always had great hair

Not even the clown make up detracts from her beauty

Stunning

Has she ever fucked anyone who isn't a Republican? I remember she lost her virginity to Dean Cain at Princeton. Is she a Republican too? A Trump supporter?

Vintage hair: why does Brooke Shields' 80s blow dry still inspire us?

Fuck her hair. Did she vote for Trump?

Disturbingly beautiful even as a child

Disturbingly beautiful even as a child