Ten, number 10. Perfect.
No one in the world fills that bill more than the eponymous corn-rowed braided blonde beauty Bo, running on the beach in a one-piece golden cozzie, beads clacking on her bronzed lithesome limbs.
Even the slo-mo could not capture her honeyed lusciousness as she approached ‘everyman’ Dudley Moore, salivating over her gazelle-like charge up the sands, while he fantasized over her in Blake Edward’s 1979 film, 10.
Discovered as an under-aged teen model by John Derek, 30 years her senior, who had an unerring penchant for discovering one blonde bombshell after another–like second wife, Ursula Andress who as Honey Ryder rose from the sea like a goddess belted and knife-equipped in James Bond’s 1962 Dr. No, and third wife Linda Evans, who later played Krystle Carrington on Dynasty –the Catholic school-girl Mary Cathleen Collins, a Long Beach California native, was captivated by his Svengali charms, and moved with him to Germany at 16, to escape charges of statutory rape, and soon became Linda’s replacement as the fourth new Mrs. Derek, when Bo turned 18 in 1976. They remained married until John’s death in 1998.
Bo starred in several films that she co-produced with her husband, but none were succcessful, at least at the box office. Awarded not one but three of the somewhat notorious Golden Raspberry Worst Actress Awards for Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), Bolero (1984) and Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990), Bo was nominated in 2000 as the “Worst Actress of the Century”.
Notwithstanding this dressing down by the acting community, Bo remained an iconic fave with men the world over by really dressing down, starring and lolling on the cover of Playboy, beginning in 1980, photographed by John, romping in the nude in the Colorado River, and in a bikini showing off her enhanced figure, the result of gruelling work-outs and eating regimens devised by her husband.
A life-long lover of animals, especially horses, Bo has written an autobiograpical book in 2002 entitled Riding Lessons: Everything That Matters in Life I Learned from Horses and serves on the California Horse Racing Board of Directors.
Despite her dubious acting accolades, Bo has remained in demand as an actress and recently featured in television’s Fashion House as Maria Gianni for 40 episodes in 2006 battling it out with Morgan Fairchild, another ageless blonde beauty. Bo, still 10/10, and a stunner in her 50′s, is said to be in pre-production for a new film titled WebCam due out this year. Peeps, be ready for more blonde sunniness!
