The New Republic’s “Notebook” contains this interesting newslet: the Bush administration has appointed Bo Derek to a five-and-a-half-year term on the governing board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. TNR writes this off as in keeping with Bush’s “execrable taste,” but we know better; ‘tseems Dubya ain’t a leg man.
As the brief piece rather snottily points out, Bo’s career accomplishments include her 1990 Golden Rasberry Award for worst actress of the 80s, a series of regular appearances in Playboy, and her less-than-memorable roles in films like Bolero, Tarzan, etc.
But really…who the hell cares about all that? Here’s a high school dropout that The New Republic is still reporting on twenty-some-odd years after she burned her corn-rowed self onto the Baby Boomer psyche in Blake Edwards’ “10.” Sure, Bush coulda’ named some opera singer no one’s ever heard of to the board; but that wouldn’t be newsworthy — at least, not TNR newsworthy — now would it…?
Bo Derek is a high-profile Hollywood conservative, who claims she’s been out of work for past several decades because of her political views. Granted, she has no talent, but since when is that a bar to employment in Hollywood? Her appointment is simply a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to the Glitterati.