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Actress Bo Derek promotes 'Tarzan' in Tokyo, 1981

By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 17, 2010

Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, December, 1981: Actress Bo Derek listens to a question during a press conference to promote her controversial new film, "Tarzan." A Stripes story noted that the 25-year-old actress "was turned off by the baneful reaction of critics, a lot of whom wrote that 'Tarzan,' besides being a sex bomb, was a plain bomb." Derek and her director-husband, John, defended the film, saying  some of the misconceptions about the movie came out of a lawsuit filed by the family of the late author of "Tarzan," Edgar Rice Burroughs, and that it was fit for family viewing.

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• Read Stripes' story about the 1981 press conference here.

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