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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan just might salvage what remained of the jungle lord's reputation after John and Bo Derek turned Tarzan into a howler in 1981. This time out, when Tarzan, played by Newcomer Christopher Lambert, 25, discovers that he is the Earl of Greystoke, he doffs his loincloth and hightails it to England. When his adoptive dad Silverbeard also turns up ... Oh heck, Tarzan is a howler no matter how you cut it. At least this version puts him in some decent clothes...
...good day to die," declared James Gordon ("Bo") Gritz. The date was Nov. 27, 1982, and Gritz, 44, a swashbuckling former Green Beret, was about to lead three American daredevils and 15 Laotians on an improvised commando raid across the Mekong River. Their scheme: a 14-day trek to rescue American prisoners of war in the jungles of eastern Laos. After only three days, however, the bravado of "Operation Lazarus" was abruptly buried when a band of local guerrillas ambushed the raiders, killing two Laotians, capturing an American, and forcing the others to turn tail...
...Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren't asking him to play King Lear." Bo Derek, meet Jack Scalia and Peter Barton and Rick Edwards and . . . - By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Denise Worrell /Los Angeles
...Moore's first megasuccess in film, Bo Derek did a little of both, accompanied by the hard-breathing beat of Ravel's Boléro. In Arthur, an even bigger hit, duties were shared by Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud, who played his long-suffering valet. There have been a couple of flops along the way, notably the ghoulish Six Weeks, whose bad reviews have left the star angry and bewildered...
Late one evening last November, former Green Beret Lieut. Colonel James G. ("Bo") Gritz, 44, led three fellow U.S. Army veterans and 15 Laotian guerrillas into Thailand in search of American soldiers listed as missing in action. The Defense Department, which knew of the plan, warned against it, and the unsanctioned commando raid turned up no Americans and no fresh information. Last week, however, the eagerness of Gritz's colleagues to tell their stories to Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others, did serve to embarrass their improbable group of backers and suppliers, who, it turns out, included Actors Clint...