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You cant use these images here for that purpose. Read Wikipedia:Fair use - you can only use them to comment on the particular magazine cover as fair use, not just because you have no free picture. Justinc 12:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
That elephantine article makes no sense. What makes a lot more sense is the tag on both those photos. Those picture are free advertisements for those magazines. Mind your own business. Wahkeenah 12:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Is it your avowed intention to wade through all the thousands of articles and delete all the thousands of covers and videtapes, DVDs and magazines which contain tags asserting that they ARE FAIR USE, even if YOU don't think they are??? Wahkeenah 12:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Whether it's a DVD cover, a videotape cover or a magazine cover, it still serves as free advertising for the object in question, and thus is not harmful and is very likely helpful to the copyright owner, and that's one thing in that fair use megillah that does make sense. So this complaint of yours appears to be largely YOUR PERSONAL OPINION. FYI, I did not even put the "magazine cover" tag on the photo, that was done by User:*drew, who apparently agrees with me that it IS fair use. You seem to think you know something he doesn't know. So take your complaints to him and leave me out of it. Wahkeenah 12:45, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure if Hektor came here because of the listing on third opinion, but he's entirely right. Wikipedia:Fair use says exactly that, therefore these are not examples of valid fair use. -- Varco 07:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Due to the whole spat between Tom Cruise and Brook Shields I recomend that we add her to the list of Critics of Scientology. The Fading Light 8:34, 26 March 2006
Note that here she's listed as a 2nd cuz once removed of Glenn Close, but Glenn close is listed as a 1st cuz once removed of Brooke. 68.1.129.20 09:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Is that incredibly detailed geneology about each and every single one of her ancestors necessary? Also, I am deleting every single X-American category at the bottom of this list, pending a reliable source that calls Brooke Shiels that particular X-American (i.e. Shields herself, not her great-great-grandmother, etc. etc. ) Mad Jack 02:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Of course it is necessary including her genealogy, she´s the only actual american entreteiner with strong relation with european nobility, she and actress Catherine Oxenberg, that´s a worthy note.
So is the Mash and Boston Legal actor Rene Auberjonois, he is directly descended from Joachim Murat,King of Naples and the two Sicilies and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon. Gaelic Rules ( talk) 18:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I too wondered what the point of all that genealogy info was. Most readers looking for "Personal Information," I would imagine, would be more interested in her life story. I'd kind of like to know what the heck her mother was thinking letting her star in "Pretty Baby," for example. As for the Eddie Murphy comment, whatever he may have meant by it, I take it as a compliment to white women. 66.44.102.11 ( talk) 12:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
You might want to add a link to the NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? in which it was revealed that Shields is a direct descendent of Henry IV of France.
She's descended from five Popes? May I ask what happened to celibacy? Michael 03:05, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I have heard before that she was indeed descended from Lucrezia Borgia,daughter of Pope Alexander and definately Marina Torlina,but are any of the rest true?,the mohammed1 sounds the most unbelievable and i would doubt very much that it was true.But what articles has whole mess in it Gaelic Rules ( talk) 18:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Brooke nook or, in its diminutive form, "Brookie nookie". Wahkeenah 20:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The list of films she's been in is listed in descending order by date, but the TV show list is in ascending order. Shouldn't they organized consistently? -- PseudoChron 17:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Kvsh5 ( talk) 13:33, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
The article does not at all mention photographer Garry Gross' controversial nude photographs of ten-year-old Brooke Shields, which later led to several lawsuits (cf. Richard Prince). That may not be the single most important aspect of her career, but it came even before Pretty Baby and may be one of the reasons she was cast for that film. One would expect those photos to be mentioned in a comprehensive biographic article about Brooke Shields. -- Rosenzweig ( talk) 15:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
the quote "That was one of the loves of my life. I think she loved me as much as I loved her, you know? We dated a lot. We, we went out a lot. Her pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything." is not about brooke but about TATUM O'NEAL, if you go to the source its obvious 99.225.151.202 ( talk) 05:19, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
no that quote is about brooke. its a fact
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32987303/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/page/5/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.36.153.229 ( talk) 03:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
However, while much of the plot and content of the movie were sexual in nature, the scenes in which Shields appeared nude were rather benign.
This film and its critics were only scorned in the US, it had a worldwide distribution and was looked upon favorably around the world. Having seen the film, the nude scenes were incidental indeed (as critics have pointed out).
The bigger point is the controversy which lead up to the making of the film, a lengthy Supreme Court battle over the pictures from a series by photographer Garry Gross, which depicted Shields in very erotic nude poses at the age of 10. One photograph from this series, in the Musuem of Modern Art was auctioned for an amount close to 1 million dollars. Though she was a model even as an infant ...this was the actual start of her career. 69.158.98.34 10:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Brooke's first name is not Crista. Brooke is her first name and Crista is her middle name. See her IMDb listing, http://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/super_models/Brooke_Shields/bio.html, and http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Artistes/fiche/18691/Brooke-Shields.html . Brookenook Bio Gmosaki 23:42, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
she isn't in the list... 62.101.126.218 14:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
I didn't get the chance to write out all the links, but according to several biographical articles, TV biographies, books, and numerous websites, etc. I added the German-American, and Spanish-American ancestry categories. Here is just one link (sorry, not a good one) that skims over her relations. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Brooke_Shields. I also added back the Catholic category - she is a practicing Catholic, and is even pro-life. But, I did not include a pro-life activist category, because she is not publicly active like Martin Sheen, Patricia Heaton, Kathy Ireland, or Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I will come back and add some more information to her biography since I have collected a few old magazines from the 80's, as well as current ones. This article is a bit sparse for such an eighties icon. -- CreativeSoul7981 ( talk) 07:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
"In spite of dire consequences..." -- This sentence doesn't make a freaking ounce of sense, and has nothing to do with Brooke's struggle with PPD. Somebody remove this. 69.3.33.150 ( talk) 16:18, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone explain this to me? Isn't it just an op-ed? I don't see any scientific citations or references, so I don't see how this is a "scientific and individual case". Please enlighten me. (On this page if possible, not on my Talk page - though you can certainly leave a message there telling me someone has clarified this for me -- maybe I'm just tired right now) 69.124.143.230 04:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC) Don't mean to come off as biased or stand-offish or anything, I just think the wording is a little biased. (and fixed a typo) 69.124.143.230 19:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Wow. Speechless that you wrote that and have not yet been torn to pieces. Take your opinion elsewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.193.72.2 ( talk) 12:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I decided to eliminate the following. I considere necessary to cite accurately -if there is any - the assumptions these paragraph is presenting.
"Actor/comedian
Eddie Murphy, in his concert film, Eddie Murphy: Raw, called Shields "the whitest woman in America". Her paternal grandparents are
Francis Xavier Shields, a tennis star of Irish descent, and Italian
princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, who was a sister of
Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, husband of the spanish Infanta
Doña Beatriz de Borbón y Battenberg (aunt of King
Juan Carlos I of Spain). Their granddaughter,
Sibilla Weiller (b. 1968), Brooke's cousin, married
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1963), the youngest brother of
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in 1994.
Through her Italian grandmother, Shields is a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Honoré I of Monaco and Henry IV of France. Shields is "a 23rd generation descendant of Francesco I Gattilusio, the founder of the Lesbian Gattilusii dynasty," according to the monograph "The Lesbos Island Ancestors of Prince Rainier of Monaco, Dr. Otto von Habsburg, Brooke Shields, and the Marquis de Sade."[1]
Through her Irish grandfather, the branch of the Shields family from which Brooke Shields descends, traces its ancestry to William Shields, born 1600, at Lough Neagh in County Armagh and killed in County Antrim in 1655. He had four sons, William, James, Daniel, and John. William & James were deported by Cromwell to Barbados in 1655 (they may have been conscripted to serve in the invasion of Spanish America — the “Western Design” that collapsed at Hispaniola in that year). Both relocated to Middle Plantation (now Williamsburg, Virginia) in 1658 as indentured servants. James and his descendents became tavern-keepers. Shields Tavern is a restored public house in Colonial Williamsburg. John Shields, the gunsmith of the Lewis & Clark expedition was of this line as was United States President John Tyler through his mother. William migrated to Kent County, Maryland where he gave rise to the prominent Tennessee political clan, the New Orleans family of white jazz musicians. The third brother, Daniel, was a Catholic partisan who would die in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. His son, one of the Wild Geese, associated with the Spanish and wound up in Cuba as governor general. Other descendents include the Civil War General James Shields, who would become U.S. Senator in three different states. The youngest of the four sons, John (born 1650), died on his voyage to America in 1732. His son William Shields was fostered by the Kent County, Maryland cousins and would found Emmitsburg, Maryland. Among many notable descendents were Arthur Shields, a controversial 19th-century Presbyterian, who was expelled from Princeton University and from this branche belongs Brooke Shields."
Hangyakusha 05:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC) Rebelde
Do we really need to know that "On January 22, 2001, at 9 PM EST, Lifetime (TV network) aired the film What Makes a Family, starring Brooke Shields..." (my italics)?
Please replace with "In 2001 Lifetime aired the film What Makes a Family, starring Brooke Shields..." -- 86.41.19.9 ( talk) 21:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
"Although she was not the only one, Shields had what was required to promote woman athletics into the American mainstream: she was very feminine as a celebrity and as a model she really liked to dress up.[42]"
Although this uses a study to 'back up' its claims, I believe this statement is both sexist and an unverifiable opinion - I am sure there is a better way for this to be phrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.80.68 ( talk) 00:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
USO TOURS... Brooke Shields began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope in the mid–1980s.
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17:29, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Brooke's first daughter's name is not spelled Rowan Frances, but Rowan Francis, using the exact spelling of Brooke's father's name. (Down Came the Rain, inside front cover, p. 63) Lms419 ( talk) 00:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
original: The illness may have been triggered by a traumatic childbirth, the death of her father three weeks earlier, stress from in vitro fertilization, a miscarriage and a family history of depression, as well as the hormones and life changes which were brought on by childbirth.
amended: The illness may have been triggered by a traumatic childbirth, the death of her father three weeks earlier, stress from in vitro fertilization, a miscarriage and a family history of alcoholism, as well as the hormones and life changes which were brought on by childbirth. (Down Came the Rain, p. 140) Lms419 ( talk) 00:41, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
In your biography of Brooke Shields you mistakenly list the school she attended in Manhattan as the Lenox school. I'm positive this information is wrong, as she attended the New Lincoln School at 210 E77th street (a coeducational school) until 8th grade. I am sure of this fact, as I attended at the same time, and we had many mutual acquaintances. Thank you for your time, and I hope this was helpful. Mdr114 ( talk) 15:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Please add, http://www.brookenook.net/, thanks.
YouTube channel as well: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheBrookeNook
Feos-theos ( talk) 20:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Not just "good", it's official. Feos-theos ( talk) 18:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Unwritten that Brooke Shields She Is distant cousin of Glenn Close. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.64.82.171 ( talk) 20:30, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
The article claims her surname is Gaelic. However no evidence is given to support any Gaelic antecedence. Explain please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.101.113 ( talk) 04:54, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
According to the Wiki page on Victoria Sellers, Brooke attended the same school as her - Le Lycee Francais in West Los Angeles, a private school run by French immigrants. This appears to conflict with the education details on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.164.109 ( talk) 12:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Please add any of the following images...Brooke Shields support of the USO is well known and much appreciated by U.S. servicemen...
<center><gallery> File:Julie Hayek USO Tour.jpg|Brooke Shields (far right) performs with Bob Hope during the Christmas Eve USO show for the crewmen aboard the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) operating off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon. With help from, left to right: Miss USA Julie Hayek, Cathy Lee Crosby and Ann Jillian File:Brooke Shields 1991.jpg|Brooke Shields holds up a flight deck jersey presented to her by Ensign Richard Jones, the aircraft launching and recovery equipment (ALRE) maintenance officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41). Shields' visit to the Midway is part of a tour sponsored by the United Service Organizations (USO). The MIDWAY is in the gulf to support Operation Desert Shield.
File:Brooke Shields 1991Jan.jpg|Brooke Shields is flanked by Rear Adm. Daniel P. March, left, commander, Carrier Group Five, and Capt. Arthur K. Cebrowski, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41), during her visit to the MIDWAY. Shields' visit is part of a tour sponsored by the United Service Organizations (USO). The MIDWAY is in the gulf to support Operation Desert Shield.</gallery>
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.156.40 ( talk) 06:11, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I think the following paragraph under the Personal Section is a bit odd and rather pointless:
By the 1990s, Brooke Shields would be exhibiting her physique as an extension of her womanhood, promoting physical fitness as an extension of femininity, demonstrating that femininity and athletics are consistent rather than incongruous. Although she was not the only one, Shields had what was required to promote women's athletics.[42]
It is from a textbook, no way to actually verify it, and it just seems like it was thrown in for no particular purpose. She apparently has tennis pros in her ancestry? She was married to tennis pro, Andre Agassi for a couple of years. I don't recall reading anything in the whole entry of her participating in any sort of sports, amateur or just for fun. I have never heard (doesn't mean she hasn't done one) any commercial or anything else that expounds upon athleticism and femininity, so I would like to remove it or if someone agrees, they can remove it. Mylittlezach ( talk) 22:18, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
I have found that the use of seasonal descriptions, i.e. Summer , Winter, Spring, Autumn and fall is confusing for people in different hemispheres. The use of of "Fall" is meaningless outside North America (I'm guessing the extent of usage here).
So in this article where the "Spring" is used to describe when Brook Shields made known her battle with Postpartum depression, should be replaced with something specific e.g. April/May
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From the section "Postpartum depression"
Remove: "In the spring of 2005,"
Replace with: "In the months April/May of 2005,"
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In 2012, Brooke appeared on episode 189 of Guy's Big Bite. They grilled fish on his back patio, and he laughed when she correctly suggested improvements for the way he'd lined up skewers of fish on the grill.
Pkbleier ( talk) 20:30, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
In the section on education, reference 19 (the New York Times op-ed piece) is misquoted. I checked the reference. The op-ed piece explicitly absolves the student (Ms. Shields) from criticism and directs its criticism against Princeton University. Instead of "she was criticized for not taking...", the sentence preceding the reference should read "Princeton University was criticized for not requiring her to take..." Also, since she DID take a course in philosophy, that word should be deleted from the sentence. Unless anyone wishes to challenge my reading of the citation, I will make the change myself in a couple of weeks. Alternatively, the sentence could simply be removed, on the grounds that a criticism of Princeton University's distribution requirements is only peripherally relevant to the subject of the article; however, I personally believe the information is worthy of inclusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.52.1.201 ( talk) 23:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Sorry, I made a misstatement above. I can't edit this article, in fact I find I no longer know how to edit anything on wikipedia. Someone else will have to fix it.
She still a Catholic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.144.34.99 ( talk) 21:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
The subject is so unknown as a writer that such a fact is not even mentioned in the intro. Yet, she has just been added to 12 categories of writers of verious types (including a few overlaps). Isn't there - like most things in WP - a 'rule' about overdoing something? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 10:43, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Shields was actually part of the main cast of the 7th and final season, not recurring. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.55.157 ( talk) 01:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Apparently she's part of the main cast too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.55.157 ( talk) 14:11, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please insert "Chalet Girl 2011" as a film credit (source IMDB) 82.69.90.175 ( talk) 00:13, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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In filmographie missed 1984 movie (Wet Gold)
The article's personal information section starts with the incredible statement that Ms Shields lost her virginity to so-and-so on such-and-such a date. I can't believe that she is happy about this, despite the fact that she may have written or talked about it publicly at some point in the past. I also can't believe that this information is relevant to the article. I tried to edit it, as well as the next ridiculous sentence, which talks about her "having what it takes" (whatever that means) to comment on women's athletics and physical fitness. But my edits were deleted within minutes. Anyway, this should be discussed, imo. Rhodyrudder ( talk) 01:16, 31 August 2018 (UTC)Rhodyrudder
The article refers to Brook as Shields in the early life paragraph. It's very confusing because it's not clear of it talks about the daughter, the mother, the father or another family member. O.arad.h ( talk) 19:51, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Is there any reason as to why the horrible things relating to Shields' roll in Pretty Baby, and her subsequent appearance in Playboy, are barely even mentioned in this article? Jburke2005 ( talk) 17:13, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
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I believe Brooke Shields' full name is "Brooke Christa Camille Shields" as per: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Shields 2804:14C:6581:6330:184C:8A43:F62D:7BFB ( talk) 22:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
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Remove where it says she lived in Haworth NJ across the George Washington Bridge. The GWB connects with Fort Lee, NJ and Haworth is nowhere near it. 2600:4040:AF41:300:DD24:533C:2D95:5BDC ( talk) 13:07, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
I ask myself why such films as "Just You and Me, Kid" (in which she and/or a body double appeared in three nude/partially nude scenes) and Sahara (1983) and Brenda Starr (1989) -- two notorious bombs (she won two (count 'em 2!) Razzie Award nominations for SAHARA, and won Best Supporting ACTOR(!) for a turn in drag) -- have been left out. Montju ( talk) 05:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
I just read this in a newspaper.
There isn't a health section as such but a very long section on post-partum depression. Maybe it goes under personal life?
Or is it worth including?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
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The Spiritual America exhibit was made by artist Richard Prince, not the 18th century philosopher Richard Price who wrote very little about Shields' career. Please change all references to 'Price' in this section to 'Prince' (with an 'n') and link to the correct Wikipedia page.
Thanks. 146.90.5.85 ( talk) 12:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I just want to leave it here stated that giving so much importance to the fact that "Her mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish, French Canadian and Welsh descent, while her father had English, French, German, Irish, and Italian ancestry," (and what follows in the article) is totally ridiculous, in my opinion. Its usefulness to the reader is very questionable. It reminds of a trend you see throughout the world outside Europe, of people getting out of their way to establish their association/connection to European culture and ethnicity, for reasons that could go from prestige to the question of civilization/barbarism to eugenics. We probably should be making at least some effort to counteract that old trend. Zatrp ( talk) 00:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
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You cant use these images here for that purpose. Read Wikipedia:Fair use - you can only use them to comment on the particular magazine cover as fair use, not just because you have no free picture. Justinc 12:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
That elephantine article makes no sense. What makes a lot more sense is the tag on both those photos. Those picture are free advertisements for those magazines. Mind your own business. Wahkeenah 12:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Is it your avowed intention to wade through all the thousands of articles and delete all the thousands of covers and videtapes, DVDs and magazines which contain tags asserting that they ARE FAIR USE, even if YOU don't think they are??? Wahkeenah 12:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Whether it's a DVD cover, a videotape cover or a magazine cover, it still serves as free advertising for the object in question, and thus is not harmful and is very likely helpful to the copyright owner, and that's one thing in that fair use megillah that does make sense. So this complaint of yours appears to be largely YOUR PERSONAL OPINION. FYI, I did not even put the "magazine cover" tag on the photo, that was done by User:*drew, who apparently agrees with me that it IS fair use. You seem to think you know something he doesn't know. So take your complaints to him and leave me out of it. Wahkeenah 12:45, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure if Hektor came here because of the listing on third opinion, but he's entirely right. Wikipedia:Fair use says exactly that, therefore these are not examples of valid fair use. -- Varco 07:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Due to the whole spat between Tom Cruise and Brook Shields I recomend that we add her to the list of Critics of Scientology. The Fading Light 8:34, 26 March 2006
Note that here she's listed as a 2nd cuz once removed of Glenn Close, but Glenn close is listed as a 1st cuz once removed of Brooke. 68.1.129.20 09:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Is that incredibly detailed geneology about each and every single one of her ancestors necessary? Also, I am deleting every single X-American category at the bottom of this list, pending a reliable source that calls Brooke Shiels that particular X-American (i.e. Shields herself, not her great-great-grandmother, etc. etc. ) Mad Jack 02:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Of course it is necessary including her genealogy, she´s the only actual american entreteiner with strong relation with european nobility, she and actress Catherine Oxenberg, that´s a worthy note.
So is the Mash and Boston Legal actor Rene Auberjonois, he is directly descended from Joachim Murat,King of Naples and the two Sicilies and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon. Gaelic Rules ( talk) 18:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I too wondered what the point of all that genealogy info was. Most readers looking for "Personal Information," I would imagine, would be more interested in her life story. I'd kind of like to know what the heck her mother was thinking letting her star in "Pretty Baby," for example. As for the Eddie Murphy comment, whatever he may have meant by it, I take it as a compliment to white women. 66.44.102.11 ( talk) 12:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
You might want to add a link to the NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? in which it was revealed that Shields is a direct descendent of Henry IV of France.
She's descended from five Popes? May I ask what happened to celibacy? Michael 03:05, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I have heard before that she was indeed descended from Lucrezia Borgia,daughter of Pope Alexander and definately Marina Torlina,but are any of the rest true?,the mohammed1 sounds the most unbelievable and i would doubt very much that it was true.But what articles has whole mess in it Gaelic Rules ( talk) 18:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Brooke nook or, in its diminutive form, "Brookie nookie". Wahkeenah 20:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The list of films she's been in is listed in descending order by date, but the TV show list is in ascending order. Shouldn't they organized consistently? -- PseudoChron 17:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Kvsh5 ( talk) 13:33, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
The article does not at all mention photographer Garry Gross' controversial nude photographs of ten-year-old Brooke Shields, which later led to several lawsuits (cf. Richard Prince). That may not be the single most important aspect of her career, but it came even before Pretty Baby and may be one of the reasons she was cast for that film. One would expect those photos to be mentioned in a comprehensive biographic article about Brooke Shields. -- Rosenzweig ( talk) 15:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
the quote "That was one of the loves of my life. I think she loved me as much as I loved her, you know? We dated a lot. We, we went out a lot. Her pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything." is not about brooke but about TATUM O'NEAL, if you go to the source its obvious 99.225.151.202 ( talk) 05:19, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
no that quote is about brooke. its a fact
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32987303/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/page/5/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.36.153.229 ( talk) 03:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
However, while much of the plot and content of the movie were sexual in nature, the scenes in which Shields appeared nude were rather benign.
This film and its critics were only scorned in the US, it had a worldwide distribution and was looked upon favorably around the world. Having seen the film, the nude scenes were incidental indeed (as critics have pointed out).
The bigger point is the controversy which lead up to the making of the film, a lengthy Supreme Court battle over the pictures from a series by photographer Garry Gross, which depicted Shields in very erotic nude poses at the age of 10. One photograph from this series, in the Musuem of Modern Art was auctioned for an amount close to 1 million dollars. Though she was a model even as an infant ...this was the actual start of her career. 69.158.98.34 10:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Brooke's first name is not Crista. Brooke is her first name and Crista is her middle name. See her IMDb listing, http://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/super_models/Brooke_Shields/bio.html, and http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Artistes/fiche/18691/Brooke-Shields.html . Brookenook Bio Gmosaki 23:42, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
she isn't in the list... 62.101.126.218 14:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
I didn't get the chance to write out all the links, but according to several biographical articles, TV biographies, books, and numerous websites, etc. I added the German-American, and Spanish-American ancestry categories. Here is just one link (sorry, not a good one) that skims over her relations. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Brooke_Shields. I also added back the Catholic category - she is a practicing Catholic, and is even pro-life. But, I did not include a pro-life activist category, because she is not publicly active like Martin Sheen, Patricia Heaton, Kathy Ireland, or Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I will come back and add some more information to her biography since I have collected a few old magazines from the 80's, as well as current ones. This article is a bit sparse for such an eighties icon. -- CreativeSoul7981 ( talk) 07:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
"In spite of dire consequences..." -- This sentence doesn't make a freaking ounce of sense, and has nothing to do with Brooke's struggle with PPD. Somebody remove this. 69.3.33.150 ( talk) 16:18, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone explain this to me? Isn't it just an op-ed? I don't see any scientific citations or references, so I don't see how this is a "scientific and individual case". Please enlighten me. (On this page if possible, not on my Talk page - though you can certainly leave a message there telling me someone has clarified this for me -- maybe I'm just tired right now) 69.124.143.230 04:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC) Don't mean to come off as biased or stand-offish or anything, I just think the wording is a little biased. (and fixed a typo) 69.124.143.230 19:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Wow. Speechless that you wrote that and have not yet been torn to pieces. Take your opinion elsewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.193.72.2 ( talk) 12:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I decided to eliminate the following. I considere necessary to cite accurately -if there is any - the assumptions these paragraph is presenting.
"Actor/comedian
Eddie Murphy, in his concert film, Eddie Murphy: Raw, called Shields "the whitest woman in America". Her paternal grandparents are
Francis Xavier Shields, a tennis star of Irish descent, and Italian
princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, who was a sister of
Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, husband of the spanish Infanta
Doña Beatriz de Borbón y Battenberg (aunt of King
Juan Carlos I of Spain). Their granddaughter,
Sibilla Weiller (b. 1968), Brooke's cousin, married
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1963), the youngest brother of
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in 1994.
Through her Italian grandmother, Shields is a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Honoré I of Monaco and Henry IV of France. Shields is "a 23rd generation descendant of Francesco I Gattilusio, the founder of the Lesbian Gattilusii dynasty," according to the monograph "The Lesbos Island Ancestors of Prince Rainier of Monaco, Dr. Otto von Habsburg, Brooke Shields, and the Marquis de Sade."[1]
Through her Irish grandfather, the branch of the Shields family from which Brooke Shields descends, traces its ancestry to William Shields, born 1600, at Lough Neagh in County Armagh and killed in County Antrim in 1655. He had four sons, William, James, Daniel, and John. William & James were deported by Cromwell to Barbados in 1655 (they may have been conscripted to serve in the invasion of Spanish America — the “Western Design” that collapsed at Hispaniola in that year). Both relocated to Middle Plantation (now Williamsburg, Virginia) in 1658 as indentured servants. James and his descendents became tavern-keepers. Shields Tavern is a restored public house in Colonial Williamsburg. John Shields, the gunsmith of the Lewis & Clark expedition was of this line as was United States President John Tyler through his mother. William migrated to Kent County, Maryland where he gave rise to the prominent Tennessee political clan, the New Orleans family of white jazz musicians. The third brother, Daniel, was a Catholic partisan who would die in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. His son, one of the Wild Geese, associated with the Spanish and wound up in Cuba as governor general. Other descendents include the Civil War General James Shields, who would become U.S. Senator in three different states. The youngest of the four sons, John (born 1650), died on his voyage to America in 1732. His son William Shields was fostered by the Kent County, Maryland cousins and would found Emmitsburg, Maryland. Among many notable descendents were Arthur Shields, a controversial 19th-century Presbyterian, who was expelled from Princeton University and from this branche belongs Brooke Shields."
Hangyakusha 05:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC) Rebelde
Do we really need to know that "On January 22, 2001, at 9 PM EST, Lifetime (TV network) aired the film What Makes a Family, starring Brooke Shields..." (my italics)?
Please replace with "In 2001 Lifetime aired the film What Makes a Family, starring Brooke Shields..." -- 86.41.19.9 ( talk) 21:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
"Although she was not the only one, Shields had what was required to promote woman athletics into the American mainstream: she was very feminine as a celebrity and as a model she really liked to dress up.[42]"
Although this uses a study to 'back up' its claims, I believe this statement is both sexist and an unverifiable opinion - I am sure there is a better way for this to be phrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.80.68 ( talk) 00:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
USO TOURS... Brooke Shields began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope in the mid–1980s.
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Brooke's first daughter's name is not spelled Rowan Frances, but Rowan Francis, using the exact spelling of Brooke's father's name. (Down Came the Rain, inside front cover, p. 63) Lms419 ( talk) 00:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
original: The illness may have been triggered by a traumatic childbirth, the death of her father three weeks earlier, stress from in vitro fertilization, a miscarriage and a family history of depression, as well as the hormones and life changes which were brought on by childbirth.
amended: The illness may have been triggered by a traumatic childbirth, the death of her father three weeks earlier, stress from in vitro fertilization, a miscarriage and a family history of alcoholism, as well as the hormones and life changes which were brought on by childbirth. (Down Came the Rain, p. 140) Lms419 ( talk) 00:41, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
In your biography of Brooke Shields you mistakenly list the school she attended in Manhattan as the Lenox school. I'm positive this information is wrong, as she attended the New Lincoln School at 210 E77th street (a coeducational school) until 8th grade. I am sure of this fact, as I attended at the same time, and we had many mutual acquaintances. Thank you for your time, and I hope this was helpful. Mdr114 ( talk) 15:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Please add, http://www.brookenook.net/, thanks.
YouTube channel as well: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheBrookeNook
Feos-theos ( talk) 20:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Not just "good", it's official. Feos-theos ( talk) 18:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Unwritten that Brooke Shields She Is distant cousin of Glenn Close. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.64.82.171 ( talk) 20:30, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
The article claims her surname is Gaelic. However no evidence is given to support any Gaelic antecedence. Explain please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.101.113 ( talk) 04:54, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
According to the Wiki page on Victoria Sellers, Brooke attended the same school as her - Le Lycee Francais in West Los Angeles, a private school run by French immigrants. This appears to conflict with the education details on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.164.109 ( talk) 12:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Please add any of the following images...Brooke Shields support of the USO is well known and much appreciated by U.S. servicemen...
<center><gallery> File:Julie Hayek USO Tour.jpg|Brooke Shields (far right) performs with Bob Hope during the Christmas Eve USO show for the crewmen aboard the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) operating off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon. With help from, left to right: Miss USA Julie Hayek, Cathy Lee Crosby and Ann Jillian File:Brooke Shields 1991.jpg|Brooke Shields holds up a flight deck jersey presented to her by Ensign Richard Jones, the aircraft launching and recovery equipment (ALRE) maintenance officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41). Shields' visit to the Midway is part of a tour sponsored by the United Service Organizations (USO). The MIDWAY is in the gulf to support Operation Desert Shield.
File:Brooke Shields 1991Jan.jpg|Brooke Shields is flanked by Rear Adm. Daniel P. March, left, commander, Carrier Group Five, and Capt. Arthur K. Cebrowski, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41), during her visit to the MIDWAY. Shields' visit is part of a tour sponsored by the United Service Organizations (USO). The MIDWAY is in the gulf to support Operation Desert Shield.</gallery>
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.156.40 ( talk) 06:11, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I think the following paragraph under the Personal Section is a bit odd and rather pointless:
By the 1990s, Brooke Shields would be exhibiting her physique as an extension of her womanhood, promoting physical fitness as an extension of femininity, demonstrating that femininity and athletics are consistent rather than incongruous. Although she was not the only one, Shields had what was required to promote women's athletics.[42]
It is from a textbook, no way to actually verify it, and it just seems like it was thrown in for no particular purpose. She apparently has tennis pros in her ancestry? She was married to tennis pro, Andre Agassi for a couple of years. I don't recall reading anything in the whole entry of her participating in any sort of sports, amateur or just for fun. I have never heard (doesn't mean she hasn't done one) any commercial or anything else that expounds upon athleticism and femininity, so I would like to remove it or if someone agrees, they can remove it. Mylittlezach ( talk) 22:18, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
I have found that the use of seasonal descriptions, i.e. Summer , Winter, Spring, Autumn and fall is confusing for people in different hemispheres. The use of of "Fall" is meaningless outside North America (I'm guessing the extent of usage here).
So in this article where the "Spring" is used to describe when Brook Shields made known her battle with Postpartum depression, should be replaced with something specific e.g. April/May
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From the section "Postpartum depression"
Remove: "In the spring of 2005,"
Replace with: "In the months April/May of 2005,"
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In 2012, Brooke appeared on episode 189 of Guy's Big Bite. They grilled fish on his back patio, and he laughed when she correctly suggested improvements for the way he'd lined up skewers of fish on the grill.
Pkbleier ( talk) 20:30, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
In the section on education, reference 19 (the New York Times op-ed piece) is misquoted. I checked the reference. The op-ed piece explicitly absolves the student (Ms. Shields) from criticism and directs its criticism against Princeton University. Instead of "she was criticized for not taking...", the sentence preceding the reference should read "Princeton University was criticized for not requiring her to take..." Also, since she DID take a course in philosophy, that word should be deleted from the sentence. Unless anyone wishes to challenge my reading of the citation, I will make the change myself in a couple of weeks. Alternatively, the sentence could simply be removed, on the grounds that a criticism of Princeton University's distribution requirements is only peripherally relevant to the subject of the article; however, I personally believe the information is worthy of inclusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.52.1.201 ( talk) 23:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Sorry, I made a misstatement above. I can't edit this article, in fact I find I no longer know how to edit anything on wikipedia. Someone else will have to fix it.
She still a Catholic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.144.34.99 ( talk) 21:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
The subject is so unknown as a writer that such a fact is not even mentioned in the intro. Yet, she has just been added to 12 categories of writers of verious types (including a few overlaps). Isn't there - like most things in WP - a 'rule' about overdoing something? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 10:43, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Shields was actually part of the main cast of the 7th and final season, not recurring. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.55.157 ( talk) 01:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Apparently she's part of the main cast too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.55.157 ( talk) 14:11, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please insert "Chalet Girl 2011" as a film credit (source IMDB) 82.69.90.175 ( talk) 00:13, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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In filmographie missed 1984 movie (Wet Gold)
The article's personal information section starts with the incredible statement that Ms Shields lost her virginity to so-and-so on such-and-such a date. I can't believe that she is happy about this, despite the fact that she may have written or talked about it publicly at some point in the past. I also can't believe that this information is relevant to the article. I tried to edit it, as well as the next ridiculous sentence, which talks about her "having what it takes" (whatever that means) to comment on women's athletics and physical fitness. But my edits were deleted within minutes. Anyway, this should be discussed, imo. Rhodyrudder ( talk) 01:16, 31 August 2018 (UTC)Rhodyrudder
The article refers to Brook as Shields in the early life paragraph. It's very confusing because it's not clear of it talks about the daughter, the mother, the father or another family member. O.arad.h ( talk) 19:51, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Is there any reason as to why the horrible things relating to Shields' roll in Pretty Baby, and her subsequent appearance in Playboy, are barely even mentioned in this article? Jburke2005 ( talk) 17:13, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
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I believe Brooke Shields' full name is "Brooke Christa Camille Shields" as per: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Shields 2804:14C:6581:6330:184C:8A43:F62D:7BFB ( talk) 22:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
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Remove where it says she lived in Haworth NJ across the George Washington Bridge. The GWB connects with Fort Lee, NJ and Haworth is nowhere near it. 2600:4040:AF41:300:DD24:533C:2D95:5BDC ( talk) 13:07, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
I ask myself why such films as "Just You and Me, Kid" (in which she and/or a body double appeared in three nude/partially nude scenes) and Sahara (1983) and Brenda Starr (1989) -- two notorious bombs (she won two (count 'em 2!) Razzie Award nominations for SAHARA, and won Best Supporting ACTOR(!) for a turn in drag) -- have been left out. Montju ( talk) 05:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
I just read this in a newspaper.
There isn't a health section as such but a very long section on post-partum depression. Maybe it goes under personal life?
Or is it worth including?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
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The Spiritual America exhibit was made by artist Richard Prince, not the 18th century philosopher Richard Price who wrote very little about Shields' career. Please change all references to 'Price' in this section to 'Prince' (with an 'n') and link to the correct Wikipedia page.
Thanks. 146.90.5.85 ( talk) 12:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I just want to leave it here stated that giving so much importance to the fact that "Her mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish, French Canadian and Welsh descent, while her father had English, French, German, Irish, and Italian ancestry," (and what follows in the article) is totally ridiculous, in my opinion. Its usefulness to the reader is very questionable. It reminds of a trend you see throughout the world outside Europe, of people getting out of their way to establish their association/connection to European culture and ethnicity, for reasons that could go from prestige to the question of civilization/barbarism to eugenics. We probably should be making at least some effort to counteract that old trend. Zatrp ( talk) 00:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)