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...President could win some Southern Democrats would be to stop opposing a peanut-crop allotment scheme. Taking his advice, Reagan later assured the ten-man Georgia delegation that the matter was not peanuts to him. When former President (and sometime Peanut Farmer) Jimmy Carter called Congressman Bo Ginn, it was too late. Carter was Ginn's 405th caller that day -and only the fifth to support the Democratic bill. Ginn and seven other Georgians had decided to back Reagan...
There is something ludicrous about seeing Bo Derek in the deep, dark jungles of 19th century Western Africa, for she is such a product of late 20th century America. Her giggly California high-school pom-pom girl accent does not mesh with the romantic, metaphorical lines she is called upon to recite. When her line reads: "Yes, father, many things in life are like that," her voice says "gimme a large order of onion rings and a vanilla shake." She belongs in an Orange Crush television commercial. She belongs on a beach in Venice. California, or in a dune buggy...
...room for the '80s mentality--but the new movie lacks even a healthy interaction between Tarzan and Jane. Miles O'Keefe's Tarzan never says a word, he just grunts a lot, and, of course, periodically lets out that famous yell. They make him into a big dummy and Bo speaks to him the way she might speak to a two-year-old. O'Keefe looks the part of the muscular Tarzan--maybe a bit too well. This man has not grown up on roots and berries: more likely he popped protein pills and grunted under a Nautilus...
Richard Harris overacts as James Parker, Jane's adventure-monger father. But he really can't be blamed for that: Most of his interactions are with Jane, so Harris must cope with the unenviable task of bouncing his lines off Bo, which is like bouncing a casaba melon off cement. Nevertheless, he is successful at times, and provides the film's few entertaining moments. It is hard to say if Tarzan would have been a good movie even with a better actress playing Jane, somebody with style and grace. Julie Christie for instance, or (a few years ago) Katherine Hepburn...
...STANDS, Tarzan, the Ape Man is a misleading title for the movie. Tarzan has very little to do with anything. Something like Bo Derek Takes Off Her Shirt in Exotic Places would be much more appropriate. She takes off her shirt to swim in the Great Inland Sea, she takes off her shirt to swim with Tarzan, she takes off her shirt to get painted chalk-white by restless natives. And rumor has it that she even took off her shirt to wrestle with an alligator, but, alas, that scene was left on the cutting room floor by censors...