1979: Bo Derek and 10 (Erotic 80s Part 2)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The sleeper hit of late 1979 was Blake Edwards’s sex farce 10, a comedic vivisection of a male midlife crisis, which turned 23 year-old California girl Bo Derek into a controversial cultural phenomenon. Derek’s early fame was framed in the media through the lens of her marriage to John Derek, who was 30 years her senior and who she met when she was 16. Today we’ll talk about Derek’s reign as a sex-positive bombshell in a time of extreme double standards, 10’s strangely prescient understanding of toxic masculinity, and the problem of how to frame teenage sexuality for adult consumption.

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1:25.9	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
1:33.9	the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. I'm your host,
1:41.5	Karina Longworth, and this is part two of our ongoing series, Erotic 80s.
1:50.5	I'm getting a little fed up at Sex Will You Man-Cebated Ladies being referred to as
1:56.4	Brawlers. I'm not doing this because somebody's making me do it.
2:00.5	You're a strange girl, being an ony boy. Last year he was discovered making amateur videos
2:05.5	of his own sex robbers.
2:12.5	The sexual revolution has been wonderful. It has been a remarkable change from sex
2:18.2	to eating.
2:34.1	After Last Tango in Paris, the question on many critics' minds was,
2:39.3	will movies be able to find a middle ground between art and pornography?
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