Word: boing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bo Derek is an engineering marvel -translucent eyes, enigmatic smile, buoyant breasts on a lithe, lovely frame. But there is a stillness, an emptiness to Bo's beauty that suggests that her proper medium may well be a Playboy photo spread. In movement, in movies, beauty is not enough-not even for a sex goddess. It must be animated by a glimmer of spirit, experience, desire. Inside the Bo ideal should be a real woman. Not yet. Not at all. She is form without content...
...world," says Burroughs" grand son Danton, "trying to stop the infring-ers." In 1977 the courts ruled that a sexy French cartoon could not use the name Tarzoon. Last year, before the Dereks' $5.5 million production had begun filming, the estate asked for an injunction to stop Bo's show. It was denied. "The Burroughs people are sue-happy," says John Derek. "But since we were aware of the estate's opposition, we were very careful to stay within the guidelines. The studio looked at all the rushes. They agreed this would be an R-rated film...
They're desperate to meet their July 24 release date." Adds Bo...
About four minutes are being cut from the film. In one deleted sequence, which Bo describes as "really sweet and cute," the star wrestles topless with an orangutan. In the other, her nude body is painted in preparation for sacrifice to the dread
...seems the Pontiff will be denied that opportunity. And generations of aging boys, who recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles