Today, at 59, Brooke Shields is the picture of grounded aging. She is a mother, an activist for IVF awareness, and a former Suddenly Susan star who survived the industry. She has finally become the "sugar and spice" the 1983 special pretended she was—not because she is naive, but because she is resilient. If you manage to track down a copy of Brooke Shields: Sugar 'n' Spice , watch it as a historical document, not a musical variety show. See the way the camera clings to her while the script tries to shoo it away. See the tension between the woman she was becoming and the product she was forced to be.
Was it a movie? A perfume? A magazine spread? Actually, is the colloquial name for the 1983 ABC television special "Brooke Shields: Sugar 'n' Spice." It was a 30-minute commercial wrapped in a variety show, designed to do one thing: re-introduce the 17-year-old model to America as the girl next door, despite the fact that she was the most controversial teenager on the planet. Brooke Shields Sugar And Spice
But the public didn't care. Ratings were solid. The special was a top-20 show that week, proving that audiences would watch Brooke Shields read a phone book. Today, at 59, Brooke Shields is the picture
In the pantheon of pop culture moments from the early 1980s, few phrases land with such a specific, glittering thud as the phrase "Brooke Shields Sugar and Spice." If you manage to track down a copy
