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The sex-drenched
Bolero (1984)
essentially ended any
possibility of a
substantial film career.
Her subsequent role in
her husband's production
Ghosts Can't Do It
firmly cemented her
reputation as a sex
object.
Bolero and Tarzan, the
Ape Man earned her the
dubious honor of four
Golden Raspberry Awards,
as well as a nomination
in 2000 as the "Worst
Actress of the Century".
Her most respectable
showing was as Jamie
Kennedy's mom and Ryan
O'Neal's wife in
Malibu's Most Wanted
(2003).
On the bright side,
she's an animal-rights
activist.
She is also a
conservative Republican
who supported George H.W.
Bush and campaigned for
his son, George W. Bush
in 2000 and 2004], and
she appeared at both
Republican conventions.
Currently, Derek lives
with her boyfriend,
actor John Corbett, in
Seattle, Washington. She
published her
autobiography on
February 5th, 2002
entitled "Riding
Lessons, Everything I
learned in life I
learned from horses."
She sells autographed
copies on her website
for US $50.00.
More: An aspiring model, 16-year-old Bo Derek was introduced to actor/director/cinematographer John Derek in 1971. Just as he'd done with previous "protegés" Ursula Andress and Linda Evans, Derek literally molded her into a highly desirable superstar. In 1974, the 48-year-old Derek capped his makeover by marrying the 18-year-old Bo. In her first film, the Jaws rip-off Orca, Bo showed up long enough to have her lovely leg chewed off by a killer whale. Her next film was far more rewarding: Blake Edwards' 10 (1979), in which, bouncing along the beach in slow motion to the pulsating rhythms of Ravel's Bolero, the scantily clad, cornrow-coifed Bo became the instant object of star Dudley Moore's affections. An overnight pinup favorite, Bo followed her 10 triumph with a brace of adventure films directed by her husband: Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) and Bolero (1984). After six years away from films, she returned before the cameras in another Derek/Derek co-production, the unsuccessful Ghosts Can't Do It (1990). Bo Derek has since occasionally appeared in such films as the Italian Sognando La California (1991) and the American Woman of Desire (1994).
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